The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #42609   Message #619905
Posted By: Rick Fielding
02-Jan-02 - 12:07 PM
Thread Name: Music Biographies to read in new year.
Subject: Music Biographies to read in new year.
Happy New Year to all.

I may have mentioned here that I haven't read a novel in ten years.....but still manage to have my nose stuck in a book for much of my waking hours. Autobiographies, Diaries, and biographies are my thing...split evenly between Music, history, political and baseball.

What are the must-read music biographies that have come out in the last four or five years? I've read the Bill Monroe, and ONE of the Ralph Stanley books. Looking forward to finding the Bob Gibson one....but sometimes these things are hard to find 'cause there's so little general interest.

It amazed me a few years ago that no one in British book stores had even HEARD of Ewan macColl, let alone carried "Journeyman" (got it from Peggy S. which was kind of a nice touch)

Anything come to mind? Thanks.

Rick