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IT STILL MOVES: LOST SONGS, LOST HIGHWAYS & THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT AMERICAN MUSIC > by Amanda Petrusich

IT STILL MOVES: LOST SONGS, LOST HIGHWAYS & THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT AMERICAN MUSIC > by Amanda Petrusich(0)

October 27, 2008

This book, as its subtitle suggests, is constructed as a sort of report back from the road from musical locales-Nashville, Memphis, the Mississippi Delta-and from research into moments in roots music history-the making of the Harry Smith Anthology, the Lomaxes’ explorations, the founding of No Depression magazine-taken to be key to understanding the direction of [...]

IT STILL MOVES: LOST SONGS, LOST HIGHWAYS & THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT AMERICAN MUSIC > by Amanda Petrusich
THINGS THE GRANDCHILDREN SHOULD KNOW > by Mark Oliver Everett

THINGS THE GRANDCHILDREN SHOULD KNOW > by Mark Oliver Everett

An autobiography is all about the life that’s been lived, but for Mark Everett (better known as E, frontman for EELS), that life has largely been about death.

REAL MOMENTS: BOB DYLAN > by Barry Feinstein

REAL MOMENTS: BOB DYLAN > by Barry Feinstein

Anyone who has seen D.A. Pennebaker’s classic documentary, Don’t Look Back, will recognize the ‘60s-era Bob Dylan captured here: skinny, with pegleg pants, heeled boots, Ray-Bans and that mass of frizzy curls sometimes framed by tendrils of cigarette smoke.

MILES ON MILES > Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis edited by Paul Maher Jr. and Michael K. Dorr

MILES ON MILES > Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis edited by Paul Maher Jr. and Michael K. Dorr

Spanning a range of over 30 years, Davis is blunt and sometimes shocking…


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