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| Getting in Tune PUNK IS COMING — but it’s not here yet ... It’s the fall of 1976, and 20-year-old guitarist Daniel Travers’s life is a mess. His band, the Killjoys, is essentially going nowhere; the pills he’s popping are making him crazy; and the voices batting around his head have him convinced that he’s a bleedin’ quadropheniac. On top of everything, what he calls the Real Me, his true self, has disappeared—and he’s lost without it. Then the phone rings, a new agent offering a weeklong gig at the exotic Mai Tai Hotel, in Puente Harbor, Wash. Told by the agent that Jimi Hendrix and Heart started out at the Mai Tai, Daniel sees the weeklong gig as his best chance to get the Killjoys on the road to success—and also to ditch his own troubles. Getting in Tune is a novel that captures the fire of the rock ’n’ roll dream as well as the dream that music can transcend chaos, that it can bring perfection to our daily mess. And for Daniel, it’s about finding—as his unlikely guru, The Who’s Pete Townshend, whispers to him—the Universal Chord, the perfect set of notes that blesses life with essential harmony. A book full of the low grit of small-club rock ’n’ roll and the high spirit the music soars upon, Getting in Tune is an exciting read. Step in, can you hear it? The band is tuning up right now.... |
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MEET THE ANNAS In the early '60s, the girl group the Annas ruled rock 'n' roll. Lead singer Anna Dubower, "the haunted-eyed, raven-haired incarnation of the true church of rock 'n' roll," has two Number 1 hits, an affair with John Lennon, and endless promise. Then comes the British Invasion, and overnight the Annas' passionate music falls from favor. In a desperate attempt to reconquer the charts, the Annas and their producer, Punky Solomon, make one last record: Love Will Cut You Like a Knife. The disc flops, but 30 years later it's all over the movies and TV?its highly suspect writing credits intact. Dink Stephenson, songwriter for the Annas, narrates the tale. On a moon-bright New York rooftop in August 1966, Dink proposes to Anna; for reasons never understood, she holds back her answer, and a few months later she's dead. Thus unfolds a tale rich in secrets. Part fascinating slice of rock 'n' roll history, part legal drama, part cold case mystery, Meet the Annas is a stunning read: a book you won't be able to put down until all of Anna Dubower's true, harrowing story is revealed. SOUL CAVALCADE Come along on an amazing trip.... It’s spring 1964 and Fleur-de-Lys Recordsis is sending its Soul Cavalcade bus on tour: 20 cities in 24 days. On board are hit groups the Cravattes and the Daisies, as well as Esmé Hunter‹the newest member of the troupe, a singer with an astonishing secret. A comedy with Shakespearean tones, a wild romp with blistering music, an always fascinating story with tinges of tragedy, Soul Cavalcade puts you in the world of America’s great soul music and the performers who created it. Hop on board! |
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PINK CADILLAC A runaway girl A down-at-its-heels roadhouse A hotheaded sax player A tormented record man A drop-in by Elvis Presley A magical car. . . . Pink Cadillac is a secret history of the great lost 45 Pink Cadillac — a record cut by a bluesy white girl in 1956. A love story, a mystery, a book tinged with magic and mojo, Pink Cadillac tells one of the great unknown stories of rock and roll. CLICK HERE to find out about the author of Cutting Time and Pink Cadillac, Robert Dunn. |
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Lone Star Ice and Fire They called
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CUTTING
TIME A South Side Chicago blues joint A hot young guitar player up against ... ... the King of the Blues A witchy woman, a silver stripe in her hair A young girl discovering her long-lost father A white boy with his own secrets They all come together in a novel set in the Chicago blues scene in 1963. Cutting
Time takes you into a remarkable world of smoky blues clubs, dangerous characters,
bewitched love, and surprising gallantry. It’s a book of fierce
competitions, murder, desire, civic corruption, and powerful hoodoo.
At bottom, though, Cutting Time slices
deeper. It’s a novel of character tested: How we suffer and
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