@pacific standard simon
Pittsburghers seem fairly conscientious about that sort of thing. I remember when I first moved to NYC in the early '80s. If dog poop was tumbleweed, New York back then was the wild west.
I should really read that Lewis book someday. I just got done with a whole bunch of country music/r & b history stuff, maybe I should move into that. Love the music of that time and place.
I read: Country Music USA by Bill C. Malone (this was sort of the first semi-scholarly history of country published--the cop I got from the library was a fist edition, so it came out in like 1969 or '70. He's revised it since then....), The Starday Story by Nathan Gibson (OK, if a little dry), The Carter Family by Frank Young (this is a graphic novel history of the Carters), Air Castle of the South by Craig Havinghurst (an epic history of radio station WSM, they of the Grand Ole Opry), In the Country of Country by Nicholas Davidoff (pieces based book focused on assorted musicians and songwiters) and The Chitlun' Circuit and the Road to Rock and Roll by Preston Lauterbach (really great book on the lesser known juke joints of the south).
There is a Divisadero Street in SF, home, last time I checked, to KPOO (Poor People's Radio); it goes over some big hills, meets Market St., and becomes the world-famous Castro Street.
@hyde: of those, I'm only familiar with the Dawidoff. Read his CATCHER AND A SPY some years ago and liked it. He also has a baseball book I enjoyed. There's a Nick Tosches book called COUNTRY, too, I think? Have you read any of the Peter Guralnick collections? Those are quite good, though range all over the musical map.
@Jeff no glasses needed, you just finished a 700 page tome. I read that Tosches book many, many years ago. I remember it being kind of related to country music history in the way that Hollywood Babylon is to film history. It's like an unfocused collection of stories about Spade Cooley stomping his wife to death and the like.
The Davidoff book I was pleasantly surprised by.I really had only ever read a baseball piece or two by him. But his profiles of people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, Kitty Wells etc were really well done.
@Brian, well if you're calling me young man then you ARE confused! But yes, the Davidoff is In the Country of Country. The times has the Prologue up for samplin': www.nytimes.com...
@Jeff I've read some of Liebling's food writing, it was terrific. That whole era of magazine/newspaper writing just seems amazing to me. I always imagine that every press room was like His Girl Friday.
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Howdeedoodee Mr DJ.
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@simon snatch it back & hold it.
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See Mike Cooper is playing Cafe Oto in London, late October.
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I haven't walked a dog since I was about 15.
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Pittsburghers seem fairly conscientious about that sort of thing. I remember when I first moved to NYC in the early '80s. If dog poop was tumbleweed, New York back then was the wild west.
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@Doug do we have a name that you can repeat?
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The Davidoff book I was pleasantly surprised by.I really had only ever read a baseball piece or two by him. But his profiles of people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, Kitty Wells etc were really well done.
hyde:
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Note, hyde, that I haven't in fact finished that tome...
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Never found it easy reading music books Greil Marcus and the like. To define is to destroy. That's one of mine. Ha ha.
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(Boogie-ing on in......boogie-ing on out)
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@Stanley: better boogie, than never. Or something.
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Tony Coulter will be off tomorrow on the Drummer Stream. Filling in for him will be Tony Coulter (from 2008) or possibly a different real live human. Stay tuned!
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Missed your reportage, duke. Thanks for keeping the DO Family informed.
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Missed your reportage, duke. Thanks for keeping the DO Family informed.
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