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(Jawbone Press)   www.jawbonepress.com     The details are largely the nagging and niggling devil in this Byrds book, making it a decidedly mixed bag and a tough call. But at more...

(33 1/3)   www.continuum-books.com     Richard & Linda Thompson's Shoot Out The Lights is undeniably one of the most harrowing albums in the canon of rock music. Long inter more...

(Wiley)    www.wiley.com     Joolz, we hardly knew ye!   A my-life-in-music memoir so imbued with soul-baring honesty and passion it fairly screams "film treatment! more...

(Faber & Faber)   www.fsgbooks.com   I read Sing Me Back Home the same week that Jerry Reed died, which seemed somehow fitting. Not just because it's a book about country musi more...

(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...