Rock and Roll Book Club: Booker T. Jones's 'Time is Tight: My Life, Note by Note' February 12, 2020 If you're musically inclined, you can play along with 'Time is Tight': Jones has written brief instrumental passages that appear in the back of the book, with a numerical key to tell you when to play each passage.
Rock and Roll Book Club: Peter Asher's 'Beatles from A to Zed' February 5, 2020 There are few Beatles experts better-qualified than Peter Asher, a British Invasion peer who now hosts a radio show dedicated to the band.
Rock and Roll Book Club: Flea's 'Acid for the Children' January 29, 2020 Flea's coming-of-age story is as funky and wild as the music he'd go on to make with his band, Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Rock and Roll Book Club: 'A Song for You: My Life With Whitney Houston' January 22, 2020 For decades, Robyn Crawford was one of the people closest to Whitney Houston. In 'A Song for You,' Crawford finally tells the story of her personal and professional relationship with one of the greatest performers in the history of pop music.
Rock and Roll Book Club: 'When the Stones Came to Town' collects vintage images of rock gods in Minnesota January 15, 2020 Photographer Fred Case's retrospective 'When the Stones Came to Town' is about much more than just music photography: it's about life in and out of trouble in mid-century Minnesota.
Rock and Roll Book Club: 'Ashes to Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie 1976-2016' January 8, 2020 If there's an artist who deserves the comprehensive song-by-song treatment, it's David Bowie. Chris O'Leary completes his two-volume set with 'Ashes to Ashes,' covering Bowie's career from 1976 to 2016.
Rock and Roll Book Club: Best music books of 2019 December 18, 2019 2019 saw some truly groundbreaking books by and about musicians. Here are Jay's ten favorites.
Rock and Roll Book Club: Michael Bloomfield, 'Guitar King' December 11, 2019 In his new biography 'Guitar King,' David Dann makes a case for Michael Bloomfield as the first real guitar god in American blues-rock. There's a lot of competition in that race, but Bloomfield certainly belongs on any shortlist.
Rock and Roll Book Club: 50 years since Altamont December 4, 2019 The subtitle of 'Altamont' calls it 'The Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day.' That distinction is debatable; the darkness of Altamont, however, lingers. After reading Joel Selvin's book, you'll never have so much 'Sympathy for the Devil' again.
Rock and Roll Book Club: Liz Phair's 'Horror Stories' November 27, 2019 Revered singer-songwriter Liz Phair chose the right title for her memoir 'Horror Stories.' Each of the 17 chapters is in fact a horror story of some sort. It's an unconventional way to structure a memoir, particularly since the chapters aren't in chronological order, but Phair tells us it's going to be revealing - 'I am trusting you with my deepest self,' she writes in a prologue - and she's not wrong.