All Along The Watchtower

Author : Bob Dylan,Tom Piazza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1907849440

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Mondo Scripto by Bob Dylan,Tom Piazza Pdf

Author : Constance Squires
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101516324

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Along the Watchtower by Constance Squires Pdf

From the author of Live from Medicine Park, a powerful coming-of-age novel. Set against the closing years of the Cold War, Constance Squires's debut novel introduces the family of Army Major Collins, as told through the eyes of Lucinda Collins-the vibrant, headstrong eldest daughter. Living on a military base, Lucinda feels displaced and isolated. Over time she finds her own tribe through rock and roll, and meets fellow Army brats, GIs, a ghost, and Syd, who knows how it goes. But after her father's final shocking betrayal, the only world she's ever believed in falls in like the Berlin Wall, leaving Lucinda to chart a new path. In spare, heart-wrenchingly beautiful prose, Squires offers us a rare glimpse into the experiences and sacrifices of an American military family. Along the Watchtower is a powerful story that reveals what it really means to fight for the things we believe in and to defend the ones we love.

Author : Ray Padgett
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781454930655

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Cover Me by Ray Padgett Pdf

“A music-snob’s dream come true . . . One of the best multi-subject music books to come down the pike in years . . . a fresh and deeply informed approach.” —Variety A great cover only makes a song stronger. Jimi Hendrix’s version of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower.” The Beatles rocking out with “Twist and Shout.” Aretha Franklin demanding “Respect.” Without covers, the world would have lost many unforgettable performances. This is the first book to explore the most iconic covers ever, from Elvis’s “Hound Dog” and Joe Cocker’s “With a Little Help from My Friends” to the Talking Heads’ “Take Me to the River” and Adele’s “Make You Feel My Love.” Written by the founder of the website covermesongs.com, each of the nineteen chapters investigates the origins of a classic cover—and uses it as a framework to tell the larger story of how cover songs have evolved over the decades. Cover Me is packed with insight, photography, and music history. “Delves into the complicated legacy of artists performing other people’s music . . . his research adds fresh context and intriguing background to many of these songs . . . Astute ruminations on evolving cultural perceptions of the cover’s place in the music canon.” —AV Club “This engaging nostalgia trip is sure to appeal to discophiles and cultural historians.” —Library Journal

Author : Jan Dalley
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781473670471

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Life of a Song by Jan Dalley Pdf

Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to Yesterday as 'Scrambled Eggs' because he couldn't think of any lyrics for his heart-breaking tune? Or that Patti LaBelle didn't know what 'Voulez-vous couches avec moi ce soir?' actually meant? These and countless other fascinating back stories of some of our best-known and best-loved songs fill this book, a collection of the highly successful weekly The Life of a Song columns that appear in the FT Weekend every Saturday. Each 600-word piece gives a mini-biography of a single song, from its earliest form (often a spiritual, or a jazz number), through the various covers and changes, often morphing from one genre to another, always focusing on the 'biography' of the song itself while including the many famous artists who have performed or recorded it. The selection covers a wide spectrum of the songs we all know and love - rock, pop, folk, jazz and more. Each piece is pithy, sparkily written, knowledgeable, entertaining, full of anecdotes and surprises. They combine deep musical knowledge with the vivid background of the performers and musicians, and of course the often intriguing social and political background against which the songs were created.

Author : Keith Shadwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0879309601

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Jimi Hendrix by Keith Shadwick Pdf

"Devised and produced for Backbeat Books by Outline Press... London..."--T.p. verso.

Author : John Covach,Graeme M. Boone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199880126

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Understanding Rock by John Covach,Graeme M. Boone Pdf

Amid the recent increase in scholarly attention to rock music, Understanding Rock stands out as one of the first books that subjects diverse aspects of the music itself to close and sophisticated analytical scrutiny. Written by some of the best young scholars in musicology and music theory, the essays in this volume use harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, formal, and textual approaches in order to show how and why rock music works as music. Topics of discussion include the adaptation of blues and other styles to rock; the craft of songwriting; techniques and strategies of improvisation; the reinterpretation of older songs; and the use of the recording studio as a compositional tool. A broad range of styles and groups is covered, including Yes, the Beach Boys, Cream, k.d. lang, Paul Simon, Jimi Hendrix, and the Grateful Dead.

Author : Michael Hyde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Authors, Australian
ISBN : 0980665140

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All Along the Watchtower by Michael Hyde Pdf

Michael's long-awaited memoir has activists and historians waiting with bated breath. Moratorium bad boy, and partner-in-crime with Albert Langer, Michael tells of things many will prefer to have been left unrecorded. Timed to co-incide with the first screening of an SBS documentary on Michael and the recovery of his ASIO file, this book will open a window on a lost and powerful moment of history.

Author : Andy Aledort,Jimi Hendrix
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781495058417

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Play like Jimi Hendrix by Andy Aledort,Jimi Hendrix Pdf

(Play Like). Study the trademark songs, licks, tones, and techniques of the ultimate guitar god, Jimi Hendrix. This comprehensive book and audio teaching method provides detailed analysis of Hendrix's gear, tone, techniques, styles, songs, licks, riffs, and much more. Included is a unqiue code that will give you access to audio files of all the music in the book online. Songs include: All Along the Watchtower * Bold As Love * Foxey Lady * Hey Joe * Purple Haze * Voodoo Child (Slight Return) * The Wind Cries Mary * and more.

Author : Tony Hoagland
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992-11-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0299135845

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Sweet Ruin by Tony Hoagland Pdf

Tony Hoagland captures the recognizably American landscape of a man of his generation: sex, friendship, rock and roll, cars, high optimism, and disillusion. With what Robert Pinsky has called “the saving vulgarity of American poetry,” Hoagland’s small biographies of destruction reveal that defeat is a natural prelude to grace and loss a kind of threshold to freedom. “A remarkable book. Without any rhetorical straining, with a disarming witty directness, these poems manage to transform every subject they touch, from love to politics, reaching out from the local and the personal to place the largest issues in the context of feeling. It’s hard to think of a recent book that succeeds with equal grace in fusing the truth-telling and the lyric impulse, clarity and song, in a way that produces such consistent pleasure and surprise.”—Carl Dennis “This is wonderful poetry: exuberant, self-assured, instinct with wisdom and passion.”—Carolyn Kizer “There is a fine strong sense in these poems of real lives being lived in a real world. This is something I greatly prize. And it is all colored, sometimes brightly, by the poet’s own highly romantic vision of things, so that what we may think we already know ends up seeming rich and strange.”—Donald Justice “In Sweet Ruin, we’re banging along the Baja of our little American lives, spritzing truth from our lapels, elbowing our compadres, the Seven Deadly Sins. Maybe we’re unhappy in a less than tragic way, but our ruin requires of us a love and understanding and loyalty just as deep and sweet as any tragic hero’s. And it’s all the more poignant in a sad and funny way because the purpose of this forced spiritual march, Hoagland seems to be saying, is to leave ourselves behind. Undoubtedly, you will recognize among the body count many of your selves.”—Jack Myers

Author : Curt Colbert
Publisher : Northwest Corner Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1941890687

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All Along the Watchtower by Curt Colbert Pdf

Battling personal demons as he investigates the murders of members of his old platoon from Vietnam, Seattle P.I. Matt Rossiter is shaken to the core when he finally identifies and confronts the killer.

Author : Philip Norman
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631495908

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Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix by Philip Norman Pdf

Hailed for its astounding portrait of Jimi Hendrix, Philip Norman’s Wild Thing has become the definitive biography of rock’s most outrageous—and tragic—genius. Today, Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist of all time. But before he was setting guitars and the world aflame, James Marshall Hendrix was a shy kid in Seattle, plucking at a broken ukulele. Bringing Hendrix’s story to vivid life against the backdrop of midcentury rock, and interweaving new interviews with friends, lovers, bandmates, and his family, Wild Thing vividly reconstructs Hendrix’s remarkable career, from playing segregated clubs on the Chitlin’ Circuit to achieving stardom in Swinging London.

Author : John McDermott,Eddie Kramer
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Rock music
ISBN : 0751511293

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Hendrix by John McDermott,Eddie Kramer Pdf

Seven years in the making, this is the complete account of the career, music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix, based entirely on first-person recollections and new, exclusive photographs and documents. Since his death in 1970 at the age of twenty-seven, Jimi Hendrix has been mythologised as a risk-taker who lost it all - and not the serious musician whose sole desire was to play and write great music. Now, authors John McDermott and Eddie Kramer (Jimi's long-time producer) set the record straight. From Jimi's Greenwich Village days to his Electric Ladybird nights, they chronicle the innovative techniques of a pioneer who painstakingly worked to perfect the sounds others couldn't even imagine, despite being modest to the point of shyness about his own singing talent. Key figures in his inner circle such as his manager Chas Chandler shed light on Jimi's whirlwind three-and-a-half year career. Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight is the definitive biography of a legend whose recording career transformed the essence of rock and roll.

Author : Mick Wall
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409160328

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Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death of Jimi Hendrix by Mick Wall Pdf

Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people. But when Jimmy arrived in England and became Jimi, the cream of swinging London fell under his spell. It wasn't that Jimi could play with his teeth, play with his guitar behind his back. It was that he could really play. Journeying through the purple haze of idealism and paranoia of the sixties, Jimi Hendrix was the man who made Eric Clapton consider quitting, to whom Bob Dylan deferred on his own song 'All Along the Watchtower', who forced Miles Davis to reconsider his buttoned-down ways - and whose 'Star Spangled Banner' defined Woodstock. And when his star, which had burned so brightly, was extinguished far too young, his legend lived on in the music - and the intrigue surrounding his death. Eschewing the traditional rock-biography format, Two Riders Were Approaching is a fittingly psychedelic and kaleidoscopic exploration of the life and death of Jimi Hendrix - and a journey into the dark heart of the sixties. While the groupies lined up, the drugs got increasingly heavy and the dream of the sixties burned in the fire and blood of the Vietnam War, the assassination of Martin Luther King and the election of President Richard Nixon. Acclaimed writer Mick Wall, author of When Giants Walked the Earth, has drawn upon his own interviews and extensive research to produce an inimitable, novelistic telling of this tale - the definitive portrait of the Guitar God at whose altar other guitar gods worship. Jimi Hendrix's is a story that has been told many times before - but never quite like this.

Author : Bob Dylan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 1451648782

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The Lyrics by Bob Dylan Pdf

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A beautiful, comprehensive volume of Dylan’s lyrics, from the beginning of his career through the present day—with the songwriter’s edits to dozens of songs, appearing here for the first time. Bob Dylan is one of the most important songwriters of our time, responsible for modern classics such as “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Mr. Tambourine Man,” and “The Times They Are a-Changin’.” The Lyrics is a comprehensive and definitive collection of Dylan’s most recent writing as well as the early works that are such an essential part of the canon. Well known for changing the lyrics to even his best-loved songs, Dylan has edited dozens of songs for this volume, making The Lyrics a must-read for everyone from fanatics to casual fans.

Author : John Harris Dunning,Nikhil Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Circus performers
ISBN : 1406331767

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Salem Brownstone by John Harris Dunning,Nikhil Singh Pdf

A sumptuous and rich gothic fantasy following the adventure of Salem Brownstone as he falls into a strange and magical world after the death of his father.As he twists the key and slowly creeps into the grand gothic mansion left to him in his father's will, Salem's life takes a decidedly unusual turn. Aside from the money and house, his father's secret legacy includes an unfinished battle with creatures from a world beyond ours. Immediately thrown into the sinister conflict, Salem must make contact with his guardian familiar and get help from the colourful performers of Dr Kinoshita's Circus of Unearthly Delights, if he is to ward off the evil spirits and avoid the tragic fate of his father.