Dave Thompson

Bayou Underground (eBook, ePUB)

Tracing the Mythical Roots of American Popular Music

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A veteran music journalist explores rock-n-roll's bayou roots in "a jolting 18-track joy ride [that] unlocks secrets and back-stories worth savoring" ( The Wall Street Journal). The bayou of the American south-stretching from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama-is a world all its own, with a rich cultural heritage that has had an outsized influence on musicians across the globe. In this unique study of marsh music, Dave Thompson goes beyond the storied stomping grounds of New Orleans to discover secret legends and vivid mythology in the surrounding wilderness. In Bayou Underground, the people who have called the bayou home-such as Bob Dylan, Jerry Reed, Nick Cave, Bo Didley, a one-armed Cajun backwoodsman, and gator hunter named Amos Moses-are unearthed through their own words, their lives and music, and interviews with residents from the region. Included interviews with legendary musicians like Jerry Reed and Bo Didley, Bayou Underground is part travelogue, part social history, and part lament for a way of life that has now all but disappeared.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ECW Press
• Seitenzahl: 247
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781554906826
• Artikelnr.: 38322937

Autorenporträt

Dave Thompson is the author of over 100 books on rock, erotica, cinema, and pop culture, including bestselling biographies of Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), David Bowie, and the Cure. His latest titles include the already-controversial I Hate New Music (Backbeat Books) and London’s Burning: True Adventures on the Frontlines of Punk (Chicago Review Press). Thompson lives in Newark, Delaware.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
TRACK ONE: “Promised Land” by Elvis Presley
TRACK TWO: “Baron Samedi” by 10cc
TRACK THREE: “The Witch Queen of New Orleans” by Redbone
TRACK FOUR: “Highway 61 Revisited” by Bob Dylan
TRACK FIVE: “Big Bad Moon” by Joe Satriani
TRACK SIX: “Amos Moses” by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band
TRACK SEVEN: “I Walk on Gilded Splinters” by Dr. John
TRACK EIGHT: “Who Do You Love” by Juicy Lucy
TRACK NINE: “Chateau Lafite ’59 Boogie” by Foghat
TRACK TEN: “Bad Moon Rising” by Creedence Clearwater Revival
TRACK ELEVEN: “Staggerlee” by Prince Buster
TRACK TWELVE: “Louisiana 1927” by Marcia Ball
TRACK THIRTEEN: “Sneaking Sally through the Alley” by Robert Palmer
TRACK FOURTEEN: “The House of the Rising Sun” by the Animals
TRACK FIFTEEN: “The Carny” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
TRACK SIXTEEN: “Black Juju” by Alice Cooper
TRACK SEVENTEEN: “The Ripper” by Judas Priest
TRACK EIGHTEEN: “Bad Things” by Jace Everett
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Bibliography