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Erik Darling: A Life in Folk Musicnew
A virtuoso banjo and guitar player, Darling also founded and performed with two other leading folk groups, the Tarriers (with Alan Arkin, then just a little-known singer) and the Rooftop Singers.
Shepherd Express |
Martin Jack Rosenblum |
09-19-2008 |
Nonfiction
A Look at Who Lead Belly Was and Wasn'tnew
Lead Belly: A Life inPictures is not merely a picture book at all, but is rife with brilliant essays and era-specific memorabilia that portray the complexity of the man who just might be America's finest folksinger – because he sang anything and was no purist.
Shepherd Express |
Martin Jack Rosenblum |
08-01-2008 |
Nonfiction
Johnny Cash: Master of Mainstream Countrynew
Michael Streissguth's Johnny Cash: The Biography distinguishes itself as a portrayal of a man who was not ahead of his time, though he sure lived that way, but associated with those who were.
Shepherd Express |
Martin Jack Rosenblum |
12-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
Most of 'Chasing the Rising Sun' is Ted Anthony's Existential Dilemmanew
Most books on the history of a single song would be quite slender, but not when the song is The House of the Rising Sun. Anthony writes more about what he discovers about himself than the music.
Shepherd Express |
Martin Jack Rosenblum |
10-22-2007 |
Nonfiction
