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(Jawbone)   www.jawbonepress.com   At this stage it would probably take a ten-ton wrecking ball's worth of seamy revelations to topple the towering, mythic image that is Gram Parson more...

(University of Texas Press)   www.utexas.edu/utpress   www.nodepression.com     We Harp magazine refugees here at Blurt obviously have great empathy for any music journa more...

(Black Dog)   www.blackdogonline.com     The rumors of the demise of indie record stores have been greatly exaggerated: That's the underlying premise of Old Rare New, an essay/ more...

(Backbeat)   www.backbeatbooks.com   It's true. Brevity is pretty often the soul of wit. At the very least, it's a phantom limb. Take, for instance, David Kamp's Vanity Fair story/in more...

(Chicago Review Press)   www.chicagoreviewpress.com     This book, originally published in 1981, has been updated twice; in 1993, following a resurgence of interest in Cline d more...

(Da Capo Press)   www.dacapopress.com   The conceit of the book is an interesting one: Neil Diamond as the Jewish Sinatra/Elvis. The concept has some legitimacy, fleshed out when au more...

(Gotham Books)   www.penguin.com     Danny Goldberg has the enviable knack of being in the right place at the right time. Wanting to break into the music industry, he answers a more...

(Faber & Faber)   www.fsgbooks.com   It's practically in the job description now that rock critics visit the music's southern birth cradles and return, Moses-like, with a book f more...

(Workman Publishing) www.workman.com/ Wish for a long life. That's the aftereffect of thumbing through and dipping into Tom Moon's 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die, the latest addition more...

British journalist Stevie Chick must've groaned when he got word that American journalist David Browne was publishing a biography of Sonic Youth. Not only would Browne's book be coming out shortl more...