Guitar Man: A Six-String Odyssey, or, You Love that Guitar More than You Love Me

Guitar Man: A Six-String Odyssey, or, You Love that Guitar More than You Love Me
ISBN-10
0306815141
ISBN-13
9780306815140
Category
Music
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2006-12-26
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Author
Will Hodgkinson

Description

The guitar is the iconic instrument of modern popular music. It is portable, it has history, and it will always be hip. But why has the guitar become such a classic? Will Hodgkinson, a wannabe guitar player, whose only experience was an afternoon's bashing on a friend's guitar at the age of sixteen, set out to find out. Along the way he hoped to teach himself a few chords too. His goal was to get good enough to play before a live audience in just six months--even if it threatened to drive his wife and family to the point of insanity. His trip becomes an odyssey: He chats with British folk legend Bert Jansch, ex-Smith's guitarist Johnny Marr, and reclusive folk guitar legend Davey Graham, as well as Sufjan Stevens, PJ Harvey, and Cat Power's chanteuse Chan Marshall. He travels to America and with a hurricane brewing visits Roger McGuinn from the Byrds. He travels to the Deep South, looking for the spirit of Robert Johnson, and drops in on T-Model Ford, an old bluesman living in Mississippi. Gloriously readable and highly amusing, Guitar Man is classic obsessional nonfiction for a nation of guitar freaks.

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    • 2014-04-17
    • 304 pages
    • Ebook
    • Bloomsbury Publishing

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