Guitars, Bars, and Motown Superstars
- ISBN-10
- 0472113992
- ISBN-13
- 9780472113996
- Category
- Guitarists
- Pages
- 210
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Author
- Dennis Coffey
Description
Inside stories of the pop-music scenes of the 60s and 70s from one of the fathers of the Motown sound
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