Rock 'n' Roll Books Redux

"...The stack of rock & roll books on my desk was barely mined..."

Dec. 4, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Smithsonian Rock and Roll: Live and Unseen

by Bill Bentley

"...short entries written by dozens of authors. It's informative and intelligently written, but too academic and ugly for my..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Play It Loud

Play It Loud: The Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar

"...It Loud outs the single most important figure in rock & roll history: the electric guitar. Covering its development..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Review by Michael Toland

Bumping into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business

"...Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business by Danny Goldberg Gotham, 320 pp.,..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Screamin' Jay Hawkins' All-Time Greatest Hits: A Novel

Screamin' Jay Hawkins' All-Time Greatest Hits: A Novel

"...Rock & roll pioneer Screamin' Jay Hawkins had only one..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Rock & Roll Heaven, The Police: 1978-1983, Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

The days the music died, the Police in their Speedos, and a pictorial companion to the new documentary Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

"...Rock & Roll Heavenby Robert Dimery and Bruno MacDonald Barron's..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

Boiling Motley Crue's 'Dirt' down to a year (1987) in the debauched life of Nikki Sixx

"...Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Starby Nikki Sixx with Ian Gittins MTV Pocket Books/Simon..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me

Pattie Boyd, caught between to mega rock stars

"...Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Meby Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor Harmony Books, 321..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Fashion Axe

Fashion axe

"...Just as Jack Kerouac and David Amram fashioned the paragon of spoken word by..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Francesca Camillo

We Were There: Austin Concert Crowds Shot From the Pit

by Sandy Carson

"...in the pit. For a decade of concerts, photographer Sandy Carson faced the wrong way for at least a..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Clapton: The Autobiography

Slowhand's rock & roll hangover

"...Clapton: The Autobiographyby Eric Clapton Broadway Books, 341 pp., $26..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Best Music Writing 2010 and Corn Flakes With John Lennon and Other Tales From a Rock 'n' Roll Life

Rock criticism ain't what it used to be, and the Southland's preeminent daily newspaper rock critic shows youngsters how it's done

"...352 pp., $16.95 (paper) Corn Flakes With John Lennon and Other Tales From a Rock 'n' Roll Lifeby Robert..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Boys From Houston

Before ZZ Top, their precursors the Moving Sidewalks defined the Houston scene

"...Boys From Houston: The Spirit and Image of Our Musicby Vicki Welch Ayo Self-published, 450..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Life

Junkie chic achieves the ultimate high

"...Lifeby Keith Richards, with James Fox Little, Brown and Company, 564 pp., $29.99..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

I Slept With Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir

Have axe, will grind

"...Rock & roll isn't always kind to the families of..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Jazz Sides

Yardbird blows his alto hard, fast, and revolutionary

"...Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parkerby Chuck Haddix University of Illinois..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Juggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made

Juggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made

"...Steve Miller's Juggalo, which examines Detroit's Insane Clown Posse and their rabid fan base, the Juggalos. Crowned early on..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Review by Bryan Rolli

A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism

A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism

"...Here's a valiant and largely successful effort to put into context the tenets..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

The Tao of Wu

Follow these instructions, hip-grass-hop-per

"...The Tao of Wuby The RZA Riverhead Books, 208 pp., $24.95..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Review by Chase Hoffberger

For You to See the Stars

by Radney Foster

"...it's the man trying to reconnect with his long-lost grandfather in the mountains of Big Bend ("For You to..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Music Review by Lauren Modery

Lennon on Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon

Lennon on Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon

"...as the titular subject. Her conceptual acumen matches her husband's wit perfectly as they advance peace through prankster strategies..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Review by Greg Beets

The Groupie Chronicles

Groupies part one: Morgana Welch; groupies part two: Catherine James; groupies part three: Pamela Des Barres

"...Dandelion: Memoir of a Free Spirit (St. Martin's Press, 240..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals

Musicals you never heard of from the industrial complex

"...Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicalsby Steve Young and Sport Murphy Blast Books, 252 pp., $39.95..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Tattoos & Tequila and My Appetite for Destruction

Sunset Strippers revel in their boners

"...Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back With One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmenby Vince..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Music Review by Austin Powell

I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly & the Family Stone

"...I Want To Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly & The Family Stoneby Jeff Kaliss..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Robert Plant: A Life

Robert Plant's now been a solo artists longer than he was frontman for hard rock's fab four

"...Robert Plant: A Lifeby Paul Rees It Books, 368 pp., $28.99..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Everything's Bigger in Texas: The Life & Times of Kinky Friedman

by Mary Lou Sullivan

"...Friedman so heavily interviewed for Mary Lou Sullivan's delightful and diligent biography? The iconoclastic songwriter, satirist, politico, and most..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Music Review by Doug Freeman

I Said That, Volume 1: The Dicks and Mutant Rocker: The Art of Randy "Biscuit" Turner, Volume 1

by Gary Floyd; edited by David Ensminger

"...your own personal life changing." Meaning that as Floyd and Randy "Biscuit" Turner, respective frontmen for the genre's two..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Music Review by Tim Stegall

I Am Brian Wilson / Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy

I Am Brian Wilson / Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy

"...("Scary … Always reminding me that he came first.") and especially his abusive father ("What's the matter, buddy? Got..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Review by Neph Basedow

Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America

The Beatles' music and the times that spurred it

"...Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain And Americaby Jonathan Gould Harmony Books, 650 pp., $27.50..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

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