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|  | | Inside Folk Music
Interviews and tributes to some folk heroes: Dave Van Ronk, Phil Ochs, Richie Havens, Dave Guard
| |  | | It's Only Rock and Roll
The rise and fall and rise again, of a New Jersey piano man in the 1970s and his up and down relationship with the superstar Cassie Morgan.
The musical career of Eugene X Maybloom was always touched by greateness. The greatness belonged to the teenage "queen of confessional country rock and soul," Cassie "Rue" Morgan, who took him under her wing and into her bed. But their relationship was never easy. And his career was hardly meteoric. Set against the backdrop of New York City in the 1970s, this rock and roll satire spares no one, least of all the main character, who succumbs to a case of the star trip, before he lands face down in the snow in Elvira, New York. But when Cassie comes calling w | |  | | When Rock Was Young, Volume 1
Classic interviews with '50s and '60s rockers, including Phil Everly, Brenda Lee, Scotty Moore and Felice and Boudleaux Bryant.
| |  | | When the Music Mattered: Portraits from the 1960s
The story of rock in the 1960s, told through a dozen classic interviews with important rock stars. Includes Peter Tork, Paul Simon, Tracy Nelson, Roger McGuinn, John Sebastian and more.
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">The '60s will go down in history as one of rock and roll's most turbulent decades, from the frantic gyrations of the Twist to the murder of a spectator on the killing fields of Altamont. Don't forget the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Woodstock Festival. The musicians operating during that decade changed forever the parameters of the popular song and obliterated the distance between artist and fan. This book, which was originally published by Holt in 1983, offers an eye on the de | |  | | Working Musicians, Volume 1
Interviews with working musicians, from Springsteen to the wedding band guy down the block.
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