Research Catalog

Title

Looking to get lost : adventures in music and writing / Peter Guralnick.

Author

Guralnick, Peter

Publication

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

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Details

Description

xviii, 554 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• "Peter Guralnick's remarkable work... covers old ground from new perspectives, offering deeply felt, masterful, and strikingly personal portraits of creative artists, both musicians and writers, at the height of their powers. "You put the book down feeling that its sweep is vast, that you have read of giants who walked among us," rock critic Lester Bangs wrote of Guralnick's earlier work in words that could just as easily be applied to this new one. And yet, for all of the encomiums that Guralnick's books have earned for their remarkable insights and depth of feeling, Looking to Get Lost is his most personal book yet. For readers who have grown up on Guralnick's unique vision of the vast sweep of the American musical landscape, who have imbibed his loving and lively portraits and biographies of such titanic figures as Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, and Sam Phillips, there are multiple surprises and delights here, carrying on and extending all the themes, fascinations, and passions of his groundbreaking earlier work."--From publisher's description.
• "This is a book about the whirlwind of creativity, the passionate drive to make art born of individuated experience that is both unique and unduplicatable... This singular new book of profiles represents not so much a summation as a culmination of Peter Guralnick's groundbreaking work over the years, covering not only the vast sweep of the American musical landscape but its profound personal impact on the author as well"--Adapted from jacket flap.

Subject

• Guralnick, Peter
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Creative ability
• Rock music > History and criticism
• Popular music > History and criticism
• Country music > History and criticism
• Blues (Music) > History and criticism
• Rock music
• Popular music
• Country music
• Blues (Music)

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Popular music.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-527) and index.

Contents

Falling into place -- Robert Johnson and the transformative nature of art -- Whose Skip James is this? -- COSMIC RAY: how Ray Charles' "I got a woman" transformed the music of Ray Charles, allowed him to keep his band, and created a musical and social revolution -- Hag at the crossroads: portrait of the artist in midlife -- Bill Monroe: hard working man blues -- Lonnie Mack: funky country living -- Delbert McClinton: night life -- Joe Tex: hold what you've got -- Dick Curless: the return of the tumbleweed kid -- John R. Cash: I will rock and roll with you (if I have to) -- Tammy Wynette: 'til I can make it on my own -- Lee Smith: telling tales -- Call the doctor: the further adventures of Doc Pomus, Part I -- Me and the Colonel -- Henry Green: a personal memoir and appreciation -- Some cats know: words and music by Leiber & Stoller -- Producing a legend: Willie Dixon and the blues -- Meeting Chuck Berry -- American without tears: Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint go on a journey -- The song of Solomon: a triptych -- Perfect imperfection: the life and art of Jerry Lee Lewis -- Howlin Wolf: what is the soul of man? -- Living with the Blues: an interview with Eric Clapton -- Malaco Records: life on the edge of town -- My father, my grandfather and Ray Charles -- Reading, writing, and real life.

Call Number

JNE 21-37

ISBN

• 9780316412629
• 0316412627

LCCN

2020937314

OCLC

1139765833

Author

Guralnick, Peter, author.

Title

Looking to get lost : adventures in music and writing / Peter Guralnick.

Publisher

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-527) and index.

Research Call Number

JNE 21-37