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Eddie Huffman, a regular contributor to the Greensboro (NC) News Record and the Winston-Salem (NC) Journal, has written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, the Utne Reader, All Music Guide, Goldmine, the Virgin Islands Source, and many other publications. He has bean writing about music legends, mostra'n més muscle cars, obscenity trials, moonshiners, Civil War reenactors, and murderous ventriloquist dummies since before Lady Gaga was born. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. mostra'n menys

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Thanks to Edelweiss for the ARC.

This bio is very good. It is not however great. The details and such do not seem to go far beyond a deep dive on youtube or reading already available material on the late great John Prine. I was hoping for a beautifully written biography and while I did enjoy reading it I was left a bit lacking. Fans of the John Prine, like myself, will enjoy it but I was also hoping for something more some other sort of insights or thoughts about Prine. I recommend but not highly. However it must be said that I am not a big reader of biographies or memoir and this may just be my impatience with these sorts of books. I picked it up because I have been a long time fan of Prine.… (més)
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modioperandi | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | May 20, 2020 |
The book is interesting and well written, in a sense. However, the author's reference to where each quote came from took away from the story. The book would have been better if there had been footnotes or a bibliography. The author seems to love to hear himself write at times. He sometimes wanders off onto a side street, writing about other artists instead of about Prine. The author wants to get in every last word-what my high school English and Composition teacher would call 'filler.' After awhile I tired of it and just wanted the book to end.… (més)
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wearylibrarian | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Dec 18, 2016 |
John Prine was arguably the finest singer-songwriter of the seventies, a decade which produced a lot of good ones, and although he never quite produced that one signature song as did his contemporaries Arlo Guthrie, Steve Goodman, and Townes Van Zandt, his songs have endured at least as well, and continue to be covered by the rising generation of troubadours, as the author continually reminds us. As for the book, Prine declined to participate, which matters less than it might seem, as he has been a prolific and seemingly forthright interviewee over the years, but it does give the book something of a cut-and-paste feel. Huffman largely leaves the heavy critical lifting of evaluating the quality of individual songs and albums to how others received them at the time they came out, but I wasn't especially pleased when, as always seems to happen in musical biographies, he dismissed several of my favorite songs. The book is pleasant and informative reading for the fan; since Prine is not a particularly controversial or colorful character, its audience may not expand beyond said fan base.… (més)
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Big_Bang_Gorilla | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Oct 13, 2015 |

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