Pikkukuvaa napsauttamalla pääset Google Booksiin.
Ladataan... John Prine: In Spite of Himself (American Music)Tekijä: Eddie Huffman
- Ladataan...
Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. The book is interesting and well written, in a sense. However, the author's reference to where each quote came from took away from the story. The book would have been better if there had been footnotes or a bibliography. The author seems to love to hear himself write at times. He sometimes wanders off onto a side street, writing about other artists instead of about Prine. The author wants to get in every last word-what my high school English and Composition teacher would call 'filler.' After awhile I tired of it and just wanted the book to end. John Prine was arguably the finest singer-songwriter of the seventies, a decade which produced a lot of good ones, and although he never quite produced that one signature song as did his contemporaries Arlo Guthrie, Steve Goodman, and Townes Van Zandt, his songs have endured at least as well, and continue to be covered by the rising generation of troubadours, as the author continually reminds us. As for the book, Prine declined to participate, which matters less than it might seem, as he has been a prolific and seemingly forthright interviewee over the years, but it does give the book something of a cut-and-paste feel. Huffman largely leaves the heavy critical lifting of evaluating the quality of individual songs and albums to how others received them at the time they came out, but I wasn't especially pleased when, as always seems to happen in musical biographies, he dismissed several of my favorite songs. The book is pleasant and informative reading for the fan; since Prine is not a particularly controversial or colorful character, its audience may not expand beyond said fan base. näyttää 3/3 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihin
With a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs "Angel from Montgomery," "Sam Stone," and "Paradise" to the classic country music parody "You Never Even Called Me by My Name," John Prine is a songwriter's songwriter. Across five decades, Prine has created critically acclaimed albums - John Prine (one of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time), Bruised Orange, and The Missing Years - and earned many honors, including two Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting from the Americana Music Association, and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. His songs have been covered by scores of artists, from Johnny Cash and Miranda Lambert to Bette Midler and 10,000 Maniacs, and have influenced everyone from Roger McGuinn to Kacey Musgraves. Hailed in his early years as the "new Dylan," Prine still counts Bob Dylan among his most enthusiastic fans. In John Prine, Eddie Huffman traces the long arc of Prine's musical career, beginning with his early, seemingly effortless successes, which led paradoxically not to stardom but to a rich and varied career writing songs that other people have made famous. He recounts the stories, many of them humorous, behind Prine's best-known songs and discusses all of Prine's albums as he explores the brilliant records and the ill-advised side trips, the underappreciated gems and the hard-earned comebacks that led Prine to found his own successful record label, Oh Boy Records. This thorough, entertaining treatment gives John Prine his due as one of the most influential songwriters of his generation. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
Current Discussions-Suosituimmat kansikuvat
Google Books — Ladataan... LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)782.42164092The arts Music Vocal music Secular Forms of vocal music Secular songs General principles and musical forms Song genres Western popular songsKongressin kirjaston luokitusArvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo:
Oletko sinä tämä henkilö? |
This bio is very good. It is not however great. The details and such do not seem to go far beyond a deep dive on youtube or reading already available material on the late great John Prine. I was hoping for a beautifully written biography and while I did enjoy reading it I was left a bit lacking. Fans of the John Prine, like myself, will enjoy it but I was also hoping for something more some other sort of insights or thoughts about Prine. I recommend but not highly. However it must be said that I am not a big reader of biographies or memoir and this may just be my impatience with these sorts of books. I picked it up because I have been a long time fan of Prine. ( )