Now Read This: Strange Things Happen: A Life with The Police, Polo, and Pygmies, by Stewart Copeland
I snagged this one at the same time I picked up the Tammy Wynette biography from last week, mainly because, while I’m not the biggest fan of The Police, I could not resist that title. Pygmies? Polo? A rockstar with a (kind of) secret double life? Sign me up! I am pleased to tell … Read more
Now Read This: Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen, by Jimmy McDonough
When I found this book in the music section of a used book store in Boston, I added it to my pile immediately. Not because I’m a dedicated fan of Tammy Wynette – my favorite version of Stand By Your Man is the Lyle Lovett cover that was included in the Crying Game – but … Read more
Now Read This: Save the Last Dance for Satan by Nick Tosches
When I first read Nick Tosches, I had no idea who the guy was. I was on a big Dean Martin kick, and picked up Tosches’ hefty biography of the man in my quest to know all things Dino. Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams was like no other celebrity biography … Read more
Now Read This: 33 Days – Touring In A Van. Sleeping On Floors. Chasing A Dream., by Bill See
When I came to the end of this book, I closed the back cover slowly, and rested my fingertips on it, pulling myself back to the present while the the last image – Bill See, alone in a quiet house with his guitar amid a swirl of cables, contentedly working on songs while his loved … Read more
Now Read This: Deep Blues by Robert Palmer
My co-blogger and I are both tremendous consumers of books as well as of music. Naturally, we also read books about music, and you’ve seen a few examples of that sneak in here and there – Jennifer’s review of Keith Richards’ Life, my write-up of B-Sides and Broken Hearts by Caryn Rose, and the … Read more