Folk

Image of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir
Author(s):
Lucinda Williams
Genre(s):
Country, Folk, Music, Musicians, Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

April 24, 2023
Reviewed by: 
George De Stefano

“Long may she rock.”

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Image of Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
Author(s):
Greil Marcus
Genre(s):
Folk, Country, Music, Musicians, Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

October 13, 2022
Reviewed by: 
Arthur Hoyle

Folk Music is not a conventional biography, and readers hoping to find in it details of Bob Dylan’s personal life will have to search elsewhere.

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Image of The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966
Author(s):
Clinton Heylin
Genre(s):
Celebrity, Musicians, Folk, Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941–1966

May 17, 2021
Reviewed by: 
Steve Nathans-Kelly

“Drawing on Heylin’s many remarkable new discoveries in the Dylan Archive, The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling (1941–1966) makes phenomenally captivating readi

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Image of Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975
Author(s):
Richard Thompson
Genre(s):
Folk, Musicians, Music

Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975

April 5, 2021
Reviewed by: 
Jim Motavalli

It’s not surprising that the jacket blurb compares this new memoir to Patti Smith’s Just Kids. Besides being a terrific book, that one sold really well.

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Image of Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life
Author(s):
Gustavus Stadler
Genre(s):
Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, Musicians, U.S. Society and Culture, Folk, Human Sexuality, Pop Culture

Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life

October 31, 2020
Reviewed by: 
Susan Babbitt

“Guthrie, from what we learn, is part of a bigger picture, challenging the 'simple narrative' of individual freedom of expression."

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