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Summary
Summary
Leading Musicians Recommend Their Favourite Artists and Recordings This unique musical reference is the first guide to list artist and album favourites, not from critics, but from the musicians and artists themselves. More than 100 artists from the worlds of rock, pop, jazz, country, blues and folk music offer their opinionson their favourite recordings of all time - including views on their own work. Contributors include: Chuck D, Dr John, Herbie Hancock, John Lee Hooker and many, many more.
Author Notes
John Baxter was born in Randwick, New South Wales in 1939. He is an Australian-born writer, journalist, and film-maker. He has lived in Britain and the U.S. as well as in his native Sydney, but has made his home in Paris since 1989. He began writing science fiction in the early 1960s for New Worlds, Science Fantasy and other British magazines. His first novel was published as a book in the US by Ace as The Off-Worlders. He was Visiting Professor at Hollins College in Virginia in 1975-1976. He has written a number of short stories and novels in that genre and a book about SF in the movies, as well as editing collections of Australian science fiction.
For a number of years in the sixties, he was active in the Sydney Film Festival, and during the 1980s served in a consulting capacity on a number of film-funding bodies, as well as writing film criticism for The Australian and other periodicals. Since moving to Paris, he has written four books of autobiography, A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict, We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light, Immoveable feast : a Paris Christmas, and The Most Beautiful Walk in the World : a Pedestrian in Paris. In 2015 his title, Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light, made The New Zealand Best Seller List.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews 2
Booklist Review
This diverting pop-culture book may have no practical utility, but it is fascinating. It documents the listening tastes of more than 100 rock, jazz, country, and other musicians whom Reder and Baxter asked to name their favorite artists and recordings. Some of the respondents, such as Willie Nelson and Wilson Pickett, will be familiar to even casual music listeners, but most were chosen, it seems, for artistic merit rather than fame, hence alt-rockers Thurston Moore and Lou Barlow, Senegal's Youssou N'Dour, and Brazil's Gilberto Gil are all here. Most interesting are the surprises among the choices. Who would have thought that reggae singer Lucky Dube was a Foreigner fan, or that rapper Chuck D would risk his "street cred" by admitting soft spots for the Hollies and Glen Campbell? Eminently browsable, Reder and Baxter's survey provides insight into musicians' tastes and plenty of listening suggestions for adventurous fans to follow up on. Which is somewhat useful, after all. Gordon Flagg
Library Journal Review
In a book for those open to new adventures in music, 101 musicians (jazz, bluegrass, gospel, blues, rock, folkÄall but classical and "world") discuss music they listen to and that has influenced them. Based on interviews conducted by music journalists Reder and Baxter, entries contain a career overview, an annotated list of the subject's favorites (including songs, recordings, and live performances), and a discussion of his or her own recordings. A master list of suggested recordings contains recommendations for artists mentioned by a large number of the musicians interviewed. Occassional lapses into "hip" lingo are mitigated by otherwise sensitive writing and the variety of interesting, diverse music the musicians listen to (with many surprises). An appendix lists companies selling many of the recordings mentioned, so the book can work superbly as a selection tool for anyone. Recommended for public, academic, and music libraries.ÄWilliam Kenz, Moorhead State Univ. Lib., MN (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Ryan Adams (Whiskeytown) | p. 8 |
Terry Adams (NRBQ) | p. 11 |
Luther Allison | p. 15 |
Gregg Allman (Allman Brothers Band) | p. 19 |
Dave Alvin (The Blasters, X, the Knitters) | p. 23 |
Joan Armatrading | p. 29 |
Susana Baca | p. 32 |
Lou Barlow (Sebadoh, Folk Implosion, Dinosaur Jr.) | p. 35 |
Paul Barrere (Little Feat) | p. 39 |
Adrian Belew (King Crimson) | p. 44 |
Ray Benson (Asleep at the Wheel) | p. 49 |
Greg Brown | p. 53 |
Ruth Brown | p. 58 |
Peter Buck (REM) | p. 62 |
Rosanne Cash | p. 66 |
Vassar Clements | p. 71 |
Steve Cropper (Booker T. and the MGs) | p. 75 |
DMC (Run-DMC) | p. 78 |
Chuck D (Public Enemy) | p. 82 |
Gregory Davis (Dirty Dozen) | p. 86 |
Dr. John | p. 90 |
Ani DiFranco | p. 95 |
Michael Doucet (Beausoleil, Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band) | p. 99 |
Lucky Dube | p. 103 |
Steve Earle | p. 106 |
Mark Eitzel (American Music Club) | p. 110 |
Alejandro Escovedo (True Believers, Rank and File) | p. 115 |
Don Everly (Everly Brothers) | p. 120 |
Ben Folds (Ben Folds Five) | p. 124 |
Tim Gane (Stereolab) | p. 129 |
Gilberto Gil | p. 132 |
David Grisman | p. 135 |
Buddy Guy | p. 141 |
Herbie Hancock | p. 145 |
David Harrington (Kronos Quartet) | p. 149 |
Jerry Harrison (Modern Lovers, Talking Heads, Casual Gods, producer) | p. 154 |
Levon Helm (The Band) | p. 158 |
"Toots" Hibbert (Toots and the Maytals) | p. 163 |
David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) | p. 165 |
Andrew Hill | p. 172 |
Tish Hinojosa | p. 175 |
Peter Holsapple (Continental Drifters, dB's) | p. 179 |
John Lee Hooker | p. 185 |
Bruce Hornsby | p. 188 |
Georgia Hubley (Yo La Tengo) | p. 192 |
Charlie Hunter | p. 195 |
Mark Isham | p. 200 |
Waylon Jennings | p. 204 |
Elvin Jones (John Coltrane Quartet) | p. 206 |
Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo) | p. 210 |
Salif Keita | p. 213 |
Edward Kowalczyk (Live) | p. 217 |
Jon Langford (The Mekons) | p. 220 |
Daniel Lanois | p. 224 |
Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead) | p. 228 |
Laurie Lewis | p. 235 |
Bobby McFerrin | p. 238 |
Anna McGarrigle | p. 242 |
Kate McGarrigle | p. 245 |
Charles McPherson | p. 248 |
Taj Mahal | p. 252 |
Branford Marsalis | p. 258 |
Sir George Martin | p. 264 |
Dave Matthews (Dave Matthews Band) | p. 268 |
Pat Metheny | p. 271 |
Keb' Mo' | p. 276 |
Moby | p. 279 |
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) | p. 284 |
Charlie Musselwhite | p. 287 |
Youssou N'Dour | p. 292 |
Willie Nelson | p. 295 |
Aaron Neville (The Neville Brothers) | p. 298 |
Cyril Neville (The Neville Brothers, the Meters) | p. 303 |
Graham Parker | p. 307 |
Alex Paterson (The Orb) | p. 312 |
Bill Payne (Little Feat) | p. 315 |
Louie Perez (Los Lobos) | p. 321 |
Wilson Pickett | p. 327 |
Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon (Sweet Honey in the Rock) | p. 330 |
Joshua Redman | p. 335 |
Tony Rice (The Tony Rice Unit, the David Grisman Quintet, the Bluegrass Album Band, J. D. Crowe and the New South) | p. 340 |
Sonny Rollins | p. 345 |
Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab) | p. 350 |
Doug Sahm (Texas Tomados, Sir Douglas Quintet) | p. 353 |
David Sanborn | p. 357 |
Boz Scaggs | p. 361 |
John Scofield | p. 366 |
Pete Seeger | p. 371 |
Joseph Shabalala (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) | p. 375 |
Ricky Skaggs | p. 378 |
Joey Spampinato (NRBQ) | p. 382 |
Mavis Staples (The Staple Singers) | p. 384 |
Roebuck 'Pop' Staples (The Staple Singers) | p. 389 |
Jeff Tweedy (Wilco, Uncle Tupelo) | p. 392 |
Adrian Utley (Portishead) | p. 396 |
Loudon Wainwright III | p. 401 |
Walter "Wolfman" Washington | p. 404 |
Bob Weir (Grateful Dead, Ratdog) | p. 406 |
Lucinda Williams | p. 412 |
Victoria Williams | p. 416 |
Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine) | p. 422 |
Listen to This! Master List | p. 427 |
Appendix How to Find Obscure Music | p. 443 |
Authors' Contact Information | p. 450 |