Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) - Ray Robertson

Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)

Thirteen Outsiders Who Changed Modern Music

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Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2016
Biblioasis (Verlag)
978-1-77196-072-4 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
Illustrated, witty, thought-provoking essays examine the lives and art of thirteen musicians who shaped their respective genres.
"The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over. The poets of today are amplified." -- LEONARD COHEN Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson's Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits of rock & roll, blues, folk, and alt-country's most inimitable artists. Irreverent and riotous, Robertson explores the "greater or lesser heat" with which each musician shaped their genre, while offering absorbing insight into their often tumultuous lives. Includes essays on Gene Clark, Ronnie Lane, The Ramones, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Townes Van Zandt, Little Richard, Alan Wilson, Willie P. Bennett, Gram Parsons, Hound Dog Taylor, Paul Siebel, Willis Alan Ramsey, and John Hartford.

Ray Robertson is the author of the novels I Was There the Night He Died, Home Movies, Heroes, Moody Food, Gently Down the Stream, What Happened Later, and David, as well as two collections of non-fiction: Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing and, most recently, Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live, which was short-listed for the Hilary Weston Prize for non-fiction and long-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction. He lives in Toronto.

Chapter 1 - Gene Clark

Chapter 2 - Ronnie Lane

Chapter 3 - The Ramones

Chapter 4 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Chapter 5 - Townes Van Zandt

Chapter 6 - Little Richard

Chapter 7 - Alan Wilson

Chapter 8 - Willie P. Benett

Chapter 9 - Gram Parsons

Chapter 10 - Hound Dog Taylor

Chapter 11 - Paul Siebel/Willis Alan Ramsey

Chapter 12 - John Hartford

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort Emeryville
Sprache englisch
Maße 133 x 209 mm
Gewicht 368 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musikgeschichte
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Pop / Rock
ISBN-10 1-77196-072-8 / 1771960728
ISBN-13 978-1-77196-072-4 / 9781771960724
Zustand Neuware
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