Richard And Linda Thompsons Shoot Out The Lights

Author : Hayden Childs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441142851
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights written by Hayden Childs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1980 Richard and Linda Thompson (of Fairport Convention fame) had recently been dumped from their record label and were on the verge of divorce. Somehow they overcame these miserable circumstances and managed to make an album considered by many to be a masterpiece. Shoot Out The Lights puts the album-from the personal history driving the songs, to the recording difficulties they encountered and the subsequent fall-out-in context. This is a brilliant, emotional book about a brilliant, emotional album.

Author : Hayden Childs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 082642791X
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights written by Hayden Childs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1980 Richard and Linda Thompson (of Fairport Convention fame) had recently been dumped from their record label and were on the verge of divorce. Somehow they overcame these miserable circumstances and managed to make an album considered by many to be a masterpiece. Shoot Out The Lights puts the album—from the personal history driving the songs, to the recording difficulties they encountered and the subsequent fall-out—in context. This is a brilliant, emotional book about a brilliant, emotional album.

Author : Richard Thompson
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1643752537
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beeswing written by Richard Thompson and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music legend Richard Thompson, who established the genre of British folk rock, re-creates the spirit of the 1960s as he reflects on his early years performing with the greats in an era of change and creativity.

Author : Richard Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571348176
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beeswing written by Richard Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Stamey
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477316248
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Spy in the House of Loud written by Chris Stamey and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The musician & producer reflects on New York City’s early punk rock scene, as well as the creation of some of his most famous albums in this memoir. Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, “the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely co-opted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of it.” In A Spy in the House of Loud, he takes us back to the auteur explosion happening in New York clubs such as the Bowery’s CBGB as Television, Talking Heads, R.E.M., and other innovative bands were rewriting the rules. Just twenty-two years old and newly arrived from North Carolina, Stamey immersed himself in the action, playing a year with Alex Chilton before forming the dB’s and recording the albums Stands for deciBels and Repercussion, which still have an enthusiastic following. A Spy in the House of Loud vividly captures the energy that drove the music scene as arena rock gave way to punk and other new streams of electric music. Stamey tells engrossing backstories about creating in the recording studio, describing both the inspiration and the harmonic decisions behind many of his compositions, as well as providing insights into other people’s music and the process of songwriting. Photos, mixer-channel and track assignment notes, and other inside-the-studio materials illustrate the stories. Revealing another side of the CBGB era, which has been stereotyped as punk rock, safety pins, and provocation, A Spy in the House of Loud portrays a southern artist’s coming-of-age in New York’s frontier abandon as he searches for new ways to break the rules and make some noise. “An endlessly fascinating odyssey through the worlds of Southern pop, New York City art punk, and American indie rock. Stamey’s stories capture you with same finely etched detail and emotional depth that have always marked his best songs. Both an engrossing personal memoir and an eye-opening peek into the creative process, this is a truly essential work of music lit.” —Bob Mehr, New York Times–bestselling author of Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements “Informed, eloquent, and daring, this book stands as a model of excellence for both music writing and memoir. Stamey moves effortlessly between analysis and reminiscence, history and personal revelation, shedding light on his own creative journey as well as the city—‘planet New York’—that provided a good deal of the inspiration for it. I simultaneously learned so much and was deeply moved.” —Anthony DeCurtis, author of Lou Reed: A Life “Where most musician autobiographies are fueled by backstage drama, this book focuses almost entirely on the creative process, a choice that not only proves to be compelling but helps turn Stamey’s personal journey into a necessary document of peak-era college rock, illustrating how it was a vibrant scene filled with unexpected cross pollination.” —Pitchfork

Author : Tom Moon
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0761153853
Total Pages : 1025 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die written by Tom Moon and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The musical adventure of a lifetime. The most exciting book on music in years. A book of treasure, a book of discovery, a book to open your ears to new worlds of pleasure. Doing for music what Patricia Schultz—author of the phenomenal 1,000 Places to See Before You Die—does for travel, Tom Moon recommends 1,000 recordings guaranteed to give listeners the joy, the mystery, the revelation, the sheer fun of great music. This is a book both broad and deep, drawing from the diverse worlds of classical, jazz, rock, pop, blues, country, folk, musicals, hip-hop, world, opera, soundtracks, and more. It's arranged alphabetically by artist to create the kind of unexpected juxtapositions that break down genre bias and broaden listeners’ horizons— it makes every listener a seeker, actively pursuing new artists and new sounds, and reconfirming the greatness of the classics. Flanking J. S. Bach and his six entries, for example, are the little-known R&B singer Baby Huey and the '80s Rastafarian hard-core punk band Bad Brains. Farther down the list: The Band, Samuel Barber, Cecelia Bartoli, Count Basie, and Afropop star Waldemer Bastos. Each entry is passionately written, with expert listening notes, fascinating anecdotes, and the occasional perfect quote—"Your collection could be filled with nothing but music from Ray Charles," said Tom Waits, "and you'd have a completely balanced diet." Every entry identifies key tracks, additional works by the artist, and where to go next. And in the back, indexes and playlists for different moods and occasions.

Author : David Burke
Publisher : Soundcheck Books
ISBN 13 : 0992948029
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singing Out written by David Burke and published by Soundcheck Books. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life And Work Of 3 Female Folk Icons David Burke takes the lives of three of British folk music’s best-known and best-loved women and intertwines their stories. Why these three? As David explains: “Maddy Prior, June Tabor and Linda Thompson have both endured and evolved. The people’s relationship with its heritage may be capricious, but Maddy, June and Linda have remained resolutely committed to it while concurrently contemporising it.” They all began in the folk clubs of the second folk revival in the 1960s but, whilst staying true to their roots, have never been afraid to try new things (sometimes to the horror of traditional folkies). Maddy Prior MBE is best known as being the singer with Steeleye Span, though she has done many different things, including the Silly Sisters with June Tabor. June tried to juggle being a librarian and a singer, until singing, thankfully, won out. Elvis Costello said, “If you don’t like listening to June Tabor, you should stop listening to music” To a large extent, Linda Thompson’s later career has been blighted by hysterical dysphonia, a condition that has stopped her singing for long periods. For this book, all three women kindly provided interviews, but Linda could only communicate via e-mail; her condition (which comes and goes) was so bad at the time. However, her albums with ex-husband Richard Thompson are classics, as are her own solo albums: it is just sad that illness has deprived her (and us) of more of them. In addition to the three subjects, David has interviewed, amongst others, Ian Anderson, Martin Carthy, Christy Moore, Martin Simpson, Rufus Wainwright and even the creator of the Wombles pop group Mike Batt, who produced Steeleye Span.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1651 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular English Songwriters written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brock Helander
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
ISBN 13 : 0857128116
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rockin' 60s: The People Who Made the Music written by Brock Helander and published by Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rockin' '60s is a comprehensive guide through the decade that produced the greatest music of all time: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Phil Spector, The Beach Boys, Aretha Frankin and hundreds more emerged from this era. Delve into a narrative history of each group and examine the people behind the music, along with an analysis of key recordings, discography, and archival photos throughout.

Author : Joe Boyd
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847652166
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Bicycles written by Joe Boyd and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Joe Boyd. More than any previous '60s music autobiography, Joe Boyd's White Bicycles offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. His greatest coup is bringing to life the famously elusive figure of Nick Drake - the first time he's been written about by anyone who knew him well. As well as the '60s heavy-hitters, this book also offers wonderfully vivid portraits of a whole host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, The Incredible String Band to Fairport Convention.