Better yet, it is available for preorder from Unabridged Books at 3251 N. Broadway, Chicago! https://www.unabridgedbookstore.com/ https://www.unabridgedbookstore.com...History of Country Music and the Folk Revival
Well thank you - either that’s in a different thread or I am as blind as a dick. Honky Tonk Friday sounds like a good time - gonna have to find a night to make it over that way.
i've never read a bob woodward book -- i probably should do that[/QUOTE] "The Final Days", Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of Watergate, from the guys who uncovered it. A serious piece of work that is engaging reading.
Did he like it? I just finished it the other day. Can not recommend it highly enough. Incredible historical document, impeccably researched, and super entertaining. Does a good job of establishing country/folk music’s anti-establishment ethos and covers everything from the Chicago Barn Dance on through to Bloodshot Records and I’d be surprised if anything was missed. Tons of Chicago history as well, natch. Loved this book.
He did, but the author was at the show so who knows if he’s actually read it. He did mention living in Chicago for a year and a half in 83-84 so perhaps he did as he was there for part of that history.
That’s cool either way. I don’t recall him being mentioned specifically in the book, but it covers so many artists and such long period of time that it’s possible I missed it.
I just meant if the book covered 83-84 he might know or enjoy those details. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t mentioned in the book.
I am reading American Crusade How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom. It is how Roberts and Thomas and the Catholic majority on the Supreme Court are shredding the First Amendment in favor of Christians and the implication for Christian Nationalism. It is pissing me off. Ironically, I was touring the Supreme Court yesterday. Fortunately, they were not in session.
[QUOTE="bunge, post: 42606152, member: 11545"He did mention living in Chicago for a year and a half in 83-84 so perhaps he did as he was there for part of that history.[/QUOTE] So he ost probably went to the Double Bar R Ranch, on Randolph. Country next to the Greyhound station.
The brother of a guy I went to grade and high school with was scheduled to have a "job interview" with Gacy the day after the police rolled on his house and arrested him.
I bought this book shortly after seeing this post. It’s currently third in my reading queue - I just might get it to it in 2025!
Since finishing the highly recommended, aforementioned and linked Country & Midwestern, I’ve gotten through some good ones. Highlights were A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa By Alexis Okeowo A tough, but compelling read and I’d be lying if I said that some the extremism written about in the book didn’t look a lot like what we’ve being seeing here with groups like the Proud Boys, 3%ers, Oathkeepers, et al. The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver - honestly was surprised by how quickly I ripped through this book. Nate Silver is mostly a known quantity at this point, but this book is about 12 years old and even with the refresh (I read the 2020 edition) it was more a thesis on the very interesting subject matter and not (like so many books I’ve read by subject matter experts after they’ve been established as experts) the author. Proof: The Science of Booze by Adam Rogers - great and informative book about my favorite subject, the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems. Historical, technical, and somehow still fun. Girls That Never Die: Poems by Safia Elhillo - a book poems that “explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, and the myriad violences enacted and imagined against women’s bodies”. I learned a lot more from this book than I epxected - I usually just read poetry for the dope rhymes (there very few) The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio - book was as much a memoir as an anthropology study, or maybe moreso since the author did much more than observe, but it was extremely well written and I enjoyed it, despite the heavy subject matter.
I neglected to stay on topic and mention what I’m currently reading- Malort: The Redemption of a Revered and Reviled Spirit by Josh Noel. This book may turn me into a Malört truther- it is very much a book about Chicago history - even if it is a very specific part of Chicago history. But it’s a page turner, and if I was able to somehow liquify this book I would place even odds on it being more tasty than actual Malört.
Finished Don Letts book "There and Black". Quite an entertaining read by someone who's been in the embryonic stages, and help form, a number of very cool, impactful scenes.
This past week I was working on a house doing a bunch of plaster repair on a house built in 1900 which was purchased at auction and still has a few items from the previous owners in it. While on a ladder I saw 3 books on top of a high mantel and while 2 were duds the third looked very low brow promising. I shall share the first paragraph of the liner notes of author Frank Slaughter's (real name? I doubt it) "Doctor's Wives" A Novel (1971) Doctor's Wives Disease is not an imaginary ailment. For, in the closed, in-bred society of a great medical center, these women, the wives of superbly successful physicians, are driven by loneliness, boredom, and frustration along forbidden pathways. And alcohol, drugs, and promiscuity become their alternatives to despair. Now I just found the book yesterday so I haven't read it yet but I did see it was made into a film in the 1970's so it must be tawdry and I hope to check it out soon enough. Aside from the fact one sentence starts with the awkward but allowable "For", another just starts with the word "And" which is also concerning. But it looks like an adult joy ride. Just check the picture out ol Frank Slaughter?!?!? Get a load of the pent up wild man inside bursting to get out. Click on thumbnails for big version https://www.amazon.com/Doctors-Wives-Frank-Slaughter/dp/B000HB0TEO