The macabre contract with the bluesman

The macabre contract with the bluesman

Author: Luis Vendramel

Publisher: Babelcube Inc.

Published: 2022-08-03

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1667439022

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The story and journey of a soul and blues band, which rumor has it, sold itself on a macabre contract. But what they say may not always be true.


The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones

The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones

Author: Victor Coelho

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-09-12

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1107030269

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The first collection of academic essays focused entirely on the musical, historical, cultural and media impact of the Rolling Stones.


Jews Who Rock

Jews Who Rock

Author: Guy Oseary

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2016-09-27

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1250138698

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Foreword by Ben Stiller Afterword by Perry Farrell Jewish achievement in the sciences? Celebrated. Jews in literature? Lionized. But until now, there's been no record of the massive contributions of Jews in Rock n' Roll. Jews Who Rock features 100 top Jewish rockers, from Bob Dylan to Adam Horowitz, Courtney Love (yes, she's half Jewish) to John Zorn, with a concise page of essential data and a biography of each one. Includes the complete lyrics to "The Chanukah Song" by Adam Sandler


Crow Shine

Crow Shine

Author: Alan Baxter

Publisher:

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9781925212402

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The debut story collection by award-winning Australian dark fantasy writer Alan Baxter. 19 stories, 3 original to the collection. "A sweeping collection of horror and dark fantasy stories, packed with misfits and devils, repentant fathers and clockwork miracles." - Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters.


Songs in the Key of Z

Songs in the Key of Z

Author: Irwin Chusid

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2000-04-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 156976493X

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Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy—and presents their strange life stories along with photographs, interviews, cartoons, and discographies. About the only things these self-taught artists have in common are an utter lack of conventional tunefulness and an overabundance of earnestness and passion. But, believe it or not, they're worth listening to, often outmatching all contenders for inventiveness and originality. A CD featuring songs by artists profiled in the book is also available.


Me and the Devil Blues

Me and the Devil Blues

Author: Akira Hiramoto

Publisher: Del Rey

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780345501370

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STRANGE FRUIT In Me and the Devil Blues, bluesman Robert Johnson, an American legend, has been completely reimagined. This fictionalized biography takes us deep into the heart of some of the darkest chapters in American history. RJ was a simple farmhand who dreamed of becoming a great bluesman. When RJ made a deal with the devil, he lost his wife and his mortal soul. Now he may lose his last remaining possession: his life. Kidnapped by thugs, RJ is locked in a tiny cell to await mob justice. His only hope lies with gangster Clyde Barrow. Clyde, however, has problems of his own. Masquerading as a newspaper reporter, Clyde befriends Stanley McDonald, the most powerful man in town. Clyde is all set to help free RJ, but while staying in McDonald’s mansion he discovers a chilling secret that could mean death for an innocent boy. Now Clyde must decide whom to save: the innocent child or his mysterious friend RJ?


Nat Tate

Nat Tate

Author: William Boyd

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-05-03

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 1608197263

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When William Boyd published his biography of New York modern artist Nat Tate, a huge reception of critics and artists arrived for the launch party, hosted by David Bowie, to toast the late artist's life. Little did they know that the painter Nat Tate, a depressive genius who burned almost all his output before his suicide, never existed. The book was a hoax, and the art world had fallen for it. Nat Tate is a work of art unto itself-an investigation of the blurry line between the invented and the authentic, and a thoughtful tour through the spirited and occasionally ludicrous American art scene of the 1950s. William Boyd is the author of nine novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year Award. Praise for Nat Tate: "William Boyd's description of Tate's working procedure is so vivid that it convinces me that the small oil I picked up on Prince Street, New York, in the late '60s must indeed be one of the lost Third Panel Triptychs. The great sadness of this quiet and moving monograph is that the artist's most profound dread-that God will make you an artist but only a mediocre artist-did not in retrospect apply to Nat Tate."-David Bowie "A moving account of an artist too well understood by his time."-Gore Vidal


The Faust Legend

The Faust Legend

Author: Sara Munson Deats

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-09-19

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 110847585X

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Explores the influence of the Faust legend on drama and film from the sixteenth century to the contemporary era.


Burning the Days

Burning the Days

Author: James Salter

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780330448826

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‘The true chronicler of my life, a tall, soft-looking man with watery eyes, came up to me at the gathering and said, as if he had been waiting a long time to tell me, that he knew everything. I had never seen him before.’ This is the brilliant memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before emerging as one of America’s finest authors in the New York of the 1960s. Burning the Days showcases Salter’s uniquely beautiful style with some of the most evocative pages about flying ever written, together with portraits of the actors, directors and authors who later influenced him. It is an unforgettable book about passion, ambition and what it means to live and to write.


Solo Faces

Solo Faces

Author: James Salter

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1453243828

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A novel about a lonely mountain climber from the author of All That Is: “Beautifully composed . . . will remind readers of Camus and Saint-Exupéry” (The Washington Post). Vernon Rand is a charismatic figure whose great love—whose life, in fact—is climbing. He lives alone in California, where he combats the drudgery of a roofing job with the thrill of climbing in the nearby mountain ranges. Sure of only his talent and nerve, Rand decides to test himself in the French Alps, with their true mountaineering and famed, fearsome peaks. He soon learns that the most perilous moments are, for him, the moments when he feels truly alive. One of the great novels of the outdoors, Solo Faces is as thrilling, beautiful, and immediate as the Alpine peaks that have enthralled climbers for centuries. This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Salter including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.