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Author : David Michael Zimov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (535 download)
Download or read book The Headless Thompson Gunner written by David Michael Zimov and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Crystal Zevon
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061744999
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)
Download or read book I'll Sleep When I'm Dead written by Crystal Zevon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Warren Zevon died in 2003, he left behind a rich catalog of dark, witty rock 'n' roll classics, including "Lawyers, Guns and Money," "Excitable Boy," and the immortal "Werewolves of London." He also left behind a fanatical cult following and veritable rock opera of drugs, women, celebrity, genius, and epic bad behavior. As Warren once said, "I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did." Narrated by his former wife and longtime co-conspirator, Crystal Zevon, this intimate and unusual oral history draws on interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Stephen King, Bonnie Raitt, and numerous others who fell under Warren's mischievous spell. Told in the words and images of the friends, lovers, and legends who knew him best, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead captures Warren Zevon in all his turbulent glory.
Author : George Plasketes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442234571
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Warren Zevon written by George Plasketes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warren Zevon was one of the most original songwriters to emerge from the prolific 1970s Los Angeles music scene. Beyond his most familiar song—the rollicking 1978 hit “Werewolves of London”—Zevon’s smart, often satirical songbook is rich with cinematic, literary, and comic qualities; dark narratives; complex characters; popular culture references; and tender, romantic ballads of parting and longing. Warren Zevon: Desperado of Los Angeles is the first book-length, critical exploration of one of popular music’s most talented and tormented antiheroes. George Plasketes provides a comprehensive chronicle of Zevon’s 40-year, 20-record career and his enduring cultural significance. Beginning with Zevon’s classical training and encounters as a youth with composers Robert Craft and Igor Stravinsky, Plasketes surveys Zevon’s initiation into the 1960s through the Everly Brothers, the Turtles, and the film Midnight Cowboy. Plasketes then follows Zevon from his debut album with Asylum Records in 1976, produced by mentor Jackson Browne, through his successes and struggles from a Top Ten album to record label limbo during the 1980s, through a variety of music projects in the 1990s, including soundtracks and scores, culminating with a striking trio of albums in the early 2000s. Despite his reckless lifestyle and personal demons, Zevon made friends and alliances with talk show host David Letterman and such literary figures as Hunter S. Thompson and Carl Hiaasen. It was only after his death in 2003 that Zevon received Grammy recognition for his work. Throughout this book, Plasketes explores the musical, cinematic, and literary influences that shaped Zevon’s distinctive style and songwriting themes and continue to make Zevon’s work a telling portrait of Los Angeles and American culture.
Author : James Campion
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1617137391
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Accidentally Like a Martyr written by James Campion and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Warren Zevon songs are like chapters in a great American novel. Its story lies in the heart of his and our psyche. The lines are blurred. We never seem to know if we are looking in a mirror or peering through a window; we only know that when we listen we see something . The music sets the scene his voice a striking baritone, its narrator our guide through a labyrinth of harrowing narratives. The plot unfolds without subtlety; each musical and lyrical arc awakens imagination. In Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon , music journalist James Campion presents 13 essays on seminal Zevon songs and albums that provide context to the themes, inspirations, and influence of one of America's most literate songwriters. In-depth interviews with Zevon's friends and colleagues provide first-person accounts of how the music was lived, composed, recorded, and performed. Longtime fans of this most uniquely tortured artist, as well as those who want to discover his work for the first time, will get inside the mind, talent, and legacy of the wildly passionate Excitable Boy.
Author : Warren Zevon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (257 download)
Download or read book A Quiet Normal Life written by Warren Zevon and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Evans
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849354634
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)
Download or read book After the Revolution written by Robert Evans and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an edge-of-your-seat answer to that question. In the year 2070, twenty years after a civil war and societal collapse of the "old" United States, extremist militias battle in the crumbling Republic of Texas. As the violence spreads like wildfire and threatens the Free City of Austin, three unlikely allies will have to work together in an act of resistance to stop the advance of the forces of the white Christian ethnostate known as the "Heavenly Kingdom." Out three protagonists include Manny, a fixer that shuttles journalists in and out of war zones and provides footage for outside news agencies. Sasha is a teenage woman that joins the Heavenly Kingdom before she discovers the ugly truths behind their movement. Finally, we have Roland: A US Army vet kitted out with cyberware (including blood that heals major trauma wounds and a brain that can handle enough LSD to kill an elephant), tormented by broken memories, and 12,000 career kills under his belt. In the not-so-distant world Evans conjures we find advanced technology, a gender expansive culture, and a roving Burning Man-like city fueled by hedonistic excess. This powerful debut novel from Robert Evans is based on his investigative reporting from international conflict zones and on increasingly polarized domestic struggles. It is a vision of our very possible future.
Author : James E. Perone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313379076
Total Pages : 1318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Album written by James E. Perone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume work provides provocative critical analyses of 160 of the best popular music albums of the past 50 years, from the well-known and mainstream to the quirky and offbeat. The Album: A Guide to Pop Music's Most Provocative, Influential, and Important Creations contains critical analysis essays on 160 significant pop music albums from 1960 to 2010. The selected albums represent the pop, rock, soul, R&B, hip hop, country, and alternative genres, including artists such as 2Pac, Carole King, James Brown, The Beatles, and Willie Nelson. Each volume contains brief sidebars with biographical information about key performers and producers, as well as descriptions of particular music industry topics pertaining to the development of the album over this 50-year period. Due to its examination of a broad time frame and wide range of musical styles, and its depth of analysis that goes beyond that in other books about essential albums of the past and present, this collection will appeal strongly to music fans of all tastes and interests.
Author : James D. McCallister
Publisher : Screecher Creature
ISBN 13 : 9780979442018
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)
Download or read book King's Highway written by James D. McCallister and published by Screecher Creature. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upwardly mobile Raymond DeKalb seeks to find himself in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in 1978.
Author : C.M. Kushins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780306845154
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (451 download)
Download or read book Nothing's Bad Luck written by C.M. Kushins and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T.K. O'Neill
Publisher : Bluestone Press
ISBN 13 : 096720061X
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Dead Low Winter written by T.K. O'Neill and published by Bluestone Press. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late January of 1978. Football season is over; the lights from all of the Christmas trees are out. Full-time cabdriver, sometime card shark Keith Waverly is feeling good driving two exotic dancers to work. But his mood turns sour when he witnesses the violent abduction of a local street hustler. Later, when the man is found with his head ventilated by bullet holes, Waverly is dragged into a world of high-rolling gamblers, crooked politicians, sex, drugs, violence and really bad weather, with only his wits and his new girlfriend to pull him out.
Author : T. Jefferson Parker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735212678
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Room of White Fire written by T. Jefferson Parker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mesmerizing and haunting.”—Lisa Gardner “T. Jefferson Parker is the poet of American crime fiction, and The Room of White Fire absolutely proves why.”—C.J. Box In this stirring thriller from New York Times bestseller and award winner T. Jefferson Parker, P.I. Roland Ford must hunt down a soldier who is damaged by war, dangerous, and on the run. Roland Ford—once a cop, then a marine, now a private investigator—is good at finding people. But when he’s asked to locate an Air Force veteran who’s escaped from a mental institution, he realizes he’s been drawn into something deep and dark. What he doesn’t know is why a shroud of secrecy hangs over the disappearance of Clay Hickman—and why he’s getting a different story from everyone involved. In a flash, what began as just a job becomes a life-or-death obsession for Ford, pitting him against immensely powerful and treacherous people and forcing him to contend with chilling questions about truth, justice, and the American way. “A fast-paced, beautifully written thriller."—The Washington Post
Author : Gray Basnight
Publisher : Down & Out Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Lawyers, Guns, and Money written by Gray Basnight and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From classics like “Werewolves of London,” “Excitable Boy,” and “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” to lesser-known gems across a career spanning nearly four decades, the songs of Warren Zevon are rich with crime and intrigue and suspense—guns and gunners, assassins and drug dealers, a supernatural serial killer, and a heap of hapless losers along the way too. In Lawyers, Guns, and Money, fifteen fantastic writers—avid fans of Zevon’s genius—offer fresh spins on his discography with tales that span the mystery genre: caper, espionage, noir, paranormal, private eye, and more. With new stories by Gray Basnight, William Boyle, Dana Cameron, Libby Cudmore, Hilary Davidson, Steve Liskow, Nick Mamatas, Paul D. Marks, matthew quinn martin, Josh Pachter, Charles Salzberg, Laura Ellen Scott, Alex Segura, Kevin Burton Smith, and Brian Thornton, Zevon’s wry lyrics and unforgettable characters serve as the inspiration for dark crimes and dirty deeds – just the way he liked them.
Author : Jeff Apter
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879309541
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book A Pure Drop written by Jeff Apter and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Bono called Jeff Buckley "a pure drop in an ocean of noise." In this startling new biography, Buckley's friends, peers, enemies, collaborators, lovers, and others speak of the Jeff they knew or, in some cases, thought they knew. His struggles with writer's block are explored, as are his battles with the concept of stardom, his desire for escape, and his attempts to deal with the unavoidable legacy of his equally gifted father, Tim Buckley.
Author : C. M. Kushins
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306921472
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Nothing's Bad Luck written by C. M. Kushins and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of legendary singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, spanning his nomadic youth and early recording career to his substance abuse, final album, and posthumous Grammy Awards As is the case with so many musicians, the life of Warren Zevon was blessed with talent and opportunity yet also beset by tragedy and setbacks. Raised mostly by his mother with an occasional cameo from his gangster father, Warren had an affinity and talent for music at an early age. Taking to the piano and guitar almost instantly, he began imitating and soon creating songs at every opportunity. After an impromptu performance in the right place at the right time, a record deal landed on the lap of a teenager who was eager to set out on his own and make a name for himself. But of course, where fame is concerned, things are never quite so simple. Drawing on original interviews with those closest to Zevon, including Crystal Zevon, Jackson Browne, Mitch Albom, Danny Goldberg, Barney Hoskyns, and Merle Ginsberg, Nothing's Bad Luck tells the story of one of rock's greatest talents. Journalist C.M. Kushins not only examines Zevon's troubled personal life and sophisticated, ever-changing musical style, but emphasizes the moments in which the two are inseparable, and ultimately paints Zevon as a hot-headed, literary, compelling, musical genius worthy of the same tier as that of Bob Dylan and Neil Young. In Nothing's Bad Luck, Kushins at last gives Warren Zevon the serious, in-depth biographical treatment he deserves, making the life of this complex subject accessible to fans old and new for the very first time.
Author : Wallace Baine
Publisher : FastPencil Inc
ISBN 13 : 1607462257
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Rhymes with Vain written by Wallace Baine and published by FastPencil Inc. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace Baine has been covering the arts and entertainment scene for the Santa Cruz Sentinel in Santa Cruz, Calif. since 1991. His feature stories, film reviews and Sunday columns have earned him several awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, and he is a two-time winner of the national Excellence-in-Feature-Writing contest sponsored by the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors (AASFE). He lives in Aromas, Calif. with his wife and two daughters.
Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385532156
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Chronic City written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. A searing and wildly entertaining love letter to New York City from the bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude. Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role in life—permanent guest on the Upper East Side dinner party circuit, where he is consigned to talk about his astronaut fiancée, Janice Trumbull, who is trapped on a circling Space Station. A chance encounter collides Chase with Perkus Tooth, a wily pop culture guru with a vicious conspiratorial streak and the best marijuana in town. Despite their disparate backgrounds and trajectories Chase and Perkus discover they have a lot in common, including a cast of friends from all walks of life in Manhattan. Together and separately they attempt to define the indefinable, and enter into a quest for the most elusive of things: truth and authenticity in a city where everything has a price. "Full of dark humor and dazzling writing" --Entertainment Weekly
Author : George Plasketes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317171136
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book B-Sides, Undercurrents and Overtones: Peripheries to Popular in Music, 1960 to the Present written by George Plasketes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are undercurrents and peripheral taste preferences that are a defining part of our individual and collective cultural experience. Music is no exception. George Plasketes adapts the iconic "A-side/B-side" dichotomy from the 45 r.p.m. for use as a unique conceptual, critical, historical, and cultural framework for exploring and threading together a variety of popular music and media texts. The profiles and perspectives focus on the peripheries; on texts which might be considered "B-sides"”overlooked, underappreciated, and unsung cases, creators, patterns and productions that have unassumingly, but significantly, marked popular culture, music and media during the past 40 years. The underappreciated yet enduring contributions of a variety of creative individuals in music, television and film are a centerpiece of this volume: actress Doris Day's son, Terry Melcher, a 1960s music producer whose imprint is on the surf, country blues, garage pop and most importantly the folk rock genre; Hans Fenger's kid chorus cover project, a musical variation of "outsider art" that became representative of the tribute wave that began in the 1990s and continues today; versatile guitarist virtuoso Ry Cooder's extensive film soundtrack work; World Music "missionary efforts" of American artists beyond Paul Simon's Graceland, including Neil Diamond's precursor with Tap Root Manuscript in the 1970s and the exotic adventures of Henry Kaiser and David Lindley in Madagascar and Norway”to name just a few examples. These B-sides represent undercurrents, but they resonate as overtones in the mainstream of music and culture, many as historical hinges. Collectively, these B-sides are an A-side antidote of outskirt observations, individual snapshots of artists, artifacts and rituals, genres and generations, producers and musical productions in television, film and video. They constitute an important connect-the-dots cultural chronicle with a multi-layered context”social, legal, historic, economic, technological, generational, aesthetic”for interpreting the interrelations between creators and institutions, the music market place, the production of culture and important connections between the peripheral and the popular.
