Creedence Clearwater Revival Is the Eye in the Hurricane of John Lingan’s Biography
John Lingan’s expansive view of Creedence Clearwater Revival, A Song for Everyone, puts the band in the eye of the hurricane amid the era’s stormy American culture.
Brett Marie
Brett Marie's short stories and essays have appeared in publications including The New Plains Review, The Impressment Gang, and Bookanista, where he is a contributing editor. His debut novel The Upsetter Blog is out now from Owl Canyon Press.
On Manager Alan Walden’s Rough and Tumble Music Memoir, ‘Southern Man’
Alan Walden’s Southern Man tells the lively tale of promoting music from the turbulent American South with Otis Redding and his brother Phil of Capricon Studios.
Peter Guralnick’s ‘Looking to Get Lost’ Is an Ode to the Pleasures of Writing About Music
Peter Guralnick's homage to writing about music, 'Looking to Get Lost', shows how good music writing gets the music into the readers' head.
John Lingan’s Tale of Patsy Cline and Jim McCoy’s ‘Homeplace’ Is Good for the Soul
By searching with an open heart and writing with frank honesty, John Lingan makes Homeplace an antidote to the divisive anger of today’s America.
Capricorn vs. Cancer: The Story of French Singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy
All her life, and in much of her music, she had parsed her relationships, her failings and her tribulations for meaning. Now, here in the room with her -- in her very body -- was Death, that annihilator of meaning.