| Tell the Truth Until They Bleed: Coming Clean in the Dirty World of Blues and Rock 'N' Roll Contributor(s): Friedman, Josh Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0879309326 ISBN-13: 9780879309329 Publisher: Backbeat Books OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2008 Annotation: A wild insider's ride with one of music's most notorious journalists. Here are 15 gothic music profiles, guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat, from the author of Tales of Times Square. Legendary musicians and songwriters captured in moments of crisis, despair, revelation, and glory, including: * Leiber and Stoller, the white fathers of RandB and rock and roll, who possess what is perhaps the last great untold story of the music biz. Their history began at the twilight of the Guys and Dolls era - when their declared mission statement was to Make Black Folks Laugh. And this they did, creating the American songbook of the '50s and '60s, led by Elvis, the Coasters, and the Drifters. * Doc Pomus, the only white blues singer in America making records in the 1940s. Half of the hit songwriting team of Pomus-Shuman during the Brill Building era, Doc had the biggest heart in the music business. * The New York recording studio scene of the 1970s, as told by the studio cats who played on the most important records of that era, from Aretha to Steely Dan, bassist Chuck Rainey, Texas tenor saxman David "Fathead Newman," guitarist Cornell Dupress, and Atlantic Records producer Joel Dorn. Dorn's profile reveals exactly how the record biz spiraled down its ruinous course that led to the sad corporate culture of today. * A sad romance with the Ronettes' Ronnie Spector, dubbed an "oldie" once she left her teens. * Hard-luck-Te xas fables of Austin musicians Keith Ferguson and Tommy Shannon - the original bass players behind the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Johnny Winter, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. * The story of Rick Sikes and the Rhythm Rebels, the Texas band that founded the Outlaw Country movement -but never got to recap its rewards, since they were convicted of robbing banks in 1970. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Blues - Music | Genres & Styles - Rock - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 781.660 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.17" W x 8.89" (0.91 lbs) 272 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A wild insider's ride with one of music's most notorious journalists. Here are 15 music profiles, guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat: - Leiber & Stoller, the white fathers of R&B and rock and roll, who possess what is perhaps the last great untold story of the music biz. They created the American songbook of the '50s and '60s, led by Elvis, the Coasters, and the Drifters. - Doc Pomus, the only white blues singer in America making records in the 1940s. Half of the hit songwriting team of Pomus-Shuman during the Brill Building era, Doc had the biggest heart in the music business. - A sad, comic-tragic romance with the Ronettes' Ronnie Spector, dubbed an "oldie" once she left her teens. |
