yeah, thanks for the suggestion., I’ll throw them into themes, maybe. watch this space
I loved Harold Heath’s Long Relationships, probably my favourite dance music book over the past few years. Moby’s Porcelain is fantastic too, surprisingly hilarious.
But this is hands-down my fave music book from the past ten years:
agree thoroughly enjoyed this read too
That’s quite a list @Slobodan
What is that Guralnick book about? Sounds like a memoir or autobiography. I loved his Elvis biographies.
Essays about musicians: Solomon Burke, Doc Pomus, Dick Curless , Willie Dixon, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash and many others. Brilliant writing…
Thanks, that sounds great! It’s nice to get an intro to somebody before diving into a whole book sometimes.
“I’m Ragged but I’m Right” is the Dick Curless song I know, a nice country cooker. He was a truck driver with an eye patch, right?
Still my favourite ‘house’ book. Maybe my favourite book full stop haha
Currently reading the record players. Great interviews.
‘Love Goes To Buildings On Fire’ is such a great book
I’ve just finished Stuart Cosgrove’s ‘Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul’, which is a very accuate description of its contents. I only bought it to make up a “two for a tenner” deal at Fopp (the other being Jeff Chang’s ‘Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation’, but have enjoyed it more than I was expecting to. Northern Soul is a pretty impenetrable scene - the whole point of it for many - and I thought I already knew as much as I needed. That’s probably still true, but this is an entertaining-enough personal account - from the early days until now - and particularly interesting in what happened after the Wigan Casino / Blackpool Mecca era…
ooh. My barber is a 78rpm collector (and v fascinating on the subject of shellac)
Thisa looks amazing. Early formats of recorded sound are covered very nicely in:
We used that as research material for Last Night….
Two of my favourites, one recent one old.
Lee Perry’s death sent me down a massive dub wormhole, Bass Culture completely schooled me on the development of sound system culture.
I first read Ocean of Sound in the mid 90s whilst at Uni as a fresh faced ambient techno warp devotee, it completely opened up a whole new world of music for me that I am still exploring today.
I couldn’t handle the Paul Morley, Tony wilson… way more paul Morley than Tony wilson…. Had to give up… I did enjoy Bobby Gillespie’s book and found some of Sean Ryder’s - how to be a rockstar… equally, bland, pointless and endearing
I’ve heard this is great… gonna read it