The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling
 

The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling

by Mitch Myers

Wedding the American oral storytelling tradition with progressive music journalism, Mitch Myers' "The Boy Who Cried Freebird" is a treatise on the popular music culture of the twentieth century. Trenchant, insightful, and wonderfully strange, this literary mix-tape is authentic music history . . . except when it isn't. Myers outrageously blends short fiction, straight journalism, comic... (more)

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An excellent reassessment and reinvention of rockcrit sput, in the vein of the holy saints Tosches, Meltzer and even St. Lester hisself. Thoroughly entertaining. Made even a jaded veteran of rock books like myself stop and think about everything I think I know and believe about lotsa music. Recommended.

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