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I know what you re thinking: just what the world needs, another memoir by another musician. Well, the world needs this one. Forget the cliche that if you can remember the 60s, you weren t there. Fortunately, Ian remembers, and his accounts of his adventures are frequently inspiring and often hilarious. He makes me wish I d been there too. --Scott Schinder, writer, Time Out, New York
Ian Dunlop is a masterful storyteller, who bore witness to and participated in the birth of country rock. Holly George-Warren, author, music journalist and co-editor The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll --Holly George-Warren, author, music journalist and co-editor The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Rol
Part Kerouac, part Tom Robbins, it s a transcendental road trip down a lost highway that leads to the roots of the Americana music movement. --Jim White, musician, writer. Presenter of the BBC film Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus
Ian Dunlop is a masterful storyteller, who bore witness to and participated in the birth of country rock. Holly George-Warren, author, music journalist and co-editor The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll --Holly George-Warren, author, music journalist and co-editor The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Rol
Part Kerouac, part Tom Robbins, it s a transcendental road trip down a lost highway that leads to the roots of the Americana music movement. --Jim White, musician, writer. Presenter of the BBC film Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus
Ian Dunlop is a masterful storyteller, who bore witness to and participated in the birth of country rock. Holly George-Warren, author, music journalist and co-editor The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll --Holly George-Warren, author, music journalist and co-editor The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Rol
Part Kerouac, part Tom Robbins, it s a transcendental road trip down a lost highway that leads to the roots of the Americana music movement. --Jim White, musician, writer. Presenter of the BBC film Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus
Ian Dunlop is a masterful storyteller, who bore witness to and participated in the birth of country rock. Holly George-Warren, author, music journalist and co-editor The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll --Holly George-Warren, author, music journalist and co-editor The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Rol
Part Kerouac, part Tom Robbins, it s a transcendental road trip down a lost highway that leads to the roots of the Americana music movement. --Jim White, musician, writer. Presenter of the BBC film Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus
Ian Dunlop is a masterful storyteller, who bore witness to and participated in the birth of country rock. Holly George-Warren, author, music journalist and co-editor The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll --Holly George-Warren, author, music journalist and co-editor The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Rol
Part Kerouac, part Tom Robbins, it s a transcendental road trip down a lost highway that leads to the roots of the Americana music movement. --Jim White, musician, writer. Presenter of the BBC film Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus
Ian Dunlop is a masterful storyteller, who bore witness to and participated in the birth of country rock. Holly George-Warren, author, music journalist and co-editor The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll --Holly George-Warren, author, music journalist and co-editor The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Rol
Part Kerouac, part Tom Robbins, it s a transcendental road trip down a lost highway that leads to the roots of the Americana music movement. --Jim White, musician, writer. Presenter of the BBC film Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus
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Offering a unique glimpse into the Gram Parsons legend that has never been offered before this book is the inside story by his bandmate and travelling partner from the The International Submarine Band. Set between September 1965 and June 1968 it follow s Gram Parsons as he begins to create country rock and he and the band embark upon an exasperating upstream journey, swimming against a tide of opposition, rejection and astonishment from the establishment. With a cast of characters including Gram Parsons, David Crosby, Peter Fonda, Denis Hopper, Arthur Lee, and Hugh Masekela this is more than a music book... it s a vivid swirling trip across a vanished America.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This is what all music memoirs should be like - funny, sad, true and not just about the music. The fact that Gram Parsons is the character around whom the rest of the book swirls makes it of particular interest to his fans, but this is a book that tells much more. It shows America changing in the Sixties, from a country ruled by grown-ups to a place where Vietnam dominated the minds of every male between the ages of 15 and 30 and made them realise that the grown-ups do not know everything. This is a brilliantly written road book, a musical meander across the United States with the International Submarine Band, in which Parsons sang lead and the author played bass. It's a great read - one of the very best memoirs to emerge from the height of hippydom, or indeed from any musician in the past 60 years.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Ostensibly about the author's relationship with Gram Parsons this is as much about his relationship with an America on the verge of massive social change. It's a great read which feels far shorter than its 300-plus pages. It probably gets closer to the reality of the late sixties than most books I've read. It's real life written as a novel. It's fun, illuminating and it features an astonishing cast of characters including Hopper and Fonda and that's kind of appropriate for a 1968 road book. As a first effort it's hugely accomplished. Its more than a music book... it's literature!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Ian Dunlop's first book is a wonderful tale of escaping the LA scene in the late sixties. It was a time when the war in Vietnam was escalating and every young man had this on his mind. You are transported back to the exact place you were when the assassination of Bobby Kennedy occured and how that moment changed us all forever. In the middle of all of this there was this band called the International Submarine Band, paddling upstream and trying to gain acceptance playing Country Music (of all things) during the psychedelic music craze. It is a travel log of a trip across America in a VW bus and a rediscovery of nature and one's soul. You are riding along on a fascinating journey from the West coast to East filled with record stores overflowing with old 45s and 78s, geodesic dome communes, campfires and hole in the wall diners, and old signs, brands and labels of a time you will remember clearly if you were even half awake. Along the way Ian reminds us of early music pioneers that we missed or have forgotten, like Mezz Mezzrow, Spike Jones, Johnnie Taylor and Mose Alison. And of course some intimate moments with Ian and Gram. This book is as close to hearing Ian himself telling stories in your living room as one can get. In fact when I was in the midst of the book, I swear I could see him sitting in the chair next to me rattling off one of the many great stories included in this great read. This book is a trip you will want to take for yourself. Enjoy !!!!!!!
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