Lives of the Poets (with Guitars): Thirteen Outsiders Who Changed Modern Music
Ray Robertson"The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over. The poets of today are amplified."
-- LEONARD COHEN
Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson's Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits of rock & roll, blues, folk, and alt-country's most inimitable artists. Irreverent and riotous, Robertson explores the "greater or lesser heat" with which each musician shaped their genre, while offering absorbing insight into their often tumultuous lives.
Includes essays on Gene Clark, Ronnie Lane, The Ramones, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Townes Van Zandt, Little Richard, Alan Wilson, Willie P. Bennett, Gram Parsons, Hound Dog Taylor, Paul Siebel, Willis Alan Ramsey, and John Hartford.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 04/12/2016
ISBN: 9781771960724
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.90d
Review Citations: Quill & Quire 03/01/2016 pg. 34
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2016