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Johnny Goldstein

Goodreads Author

Born

in St. Louis, MO, The United States

Website

http://anelegyforthelostcity.com/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/johnnygoldstei1

Genre

Fiction, Music, Spirituality

Member Since

August 2015

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Johnny Goldstein is a Woodstock Generation New Orleanian, forced upriver to St. Louis by life's circumstance. An award-winning songwriter/composer, guitarist, beloved teacher and producer and now, an author, Goldstein was influenced by Dickens, Twain, John Irving, Vonnegut, Kozinski and Koontz. He's an easily-crazed Cardinal fan, a passionate cook, gardener and critter lover, and much to his surprise-- for the last 30 years a serious meditator, preternaturally drawn to an ancient Tibetan lineage.

An Elegy for the Lost City is based on three characters from Goldstein's original songs. The fiction series would not exist had his performing career not been ended by a 2006 car accident.

Like the musical child prodigy at the center of Elegy, Golds Johnny Goldstein is a Woodstock Generation New Orleanian, forced upriver to St. Louis by life's circumstance. An award-winning songwriter/composer, guitarist, beloved teacher and producer and now, an author, Goldstein was influenced by Dickens, Twain, John Irving, Vonnegut, Kozinski and Koontz. He's an easily-crazed Cardinal fan, a passionate cook, gardener and critter lover, and much to his surprise-- for the last 30 years a serious meditator, preternaturally drawn to an ancient Tibetan lineage.

An Elegy for the Lost City is based on three characters from Goldstein's original songs. The fiction series would not exist had his performing career not been ended by a 2006 car accident.

Like the musical child prodigy at the center of Elegy, Goldstein grew up listening to Satchmo and Louie Prima; later he attended Tulane University in New Orleans. The author formed a visceral, spiritual connection to the city in much the same way another character in his novel responds: "I felt as if I was more completely alive than I had ever been before; a resonance that I was meant to be in New Orleans."

After four years at Tulane, he eventually received a double Bachelor's degree in architecture and music from Antioch College's Baltimore-Washington Campus, a wild experiment by the nation's most progressive institution of higher learning. His band "Euclid McPherson," the country-rock group created as "work-study" became regionally successful. Thus began a priceless journey through gig-playing rock bands of no fame and little significance, other than providing the outlet for his original songs and arrangements, and gathering expertise in studio recording, production and engineering, all the while teaching thousands of guitar lessons, supplementing a predictably unpredictable income. After hanging up his rock 'n roll shoes at 35, and hardened with a cynicism forged through failure in his chosen "art," he took these nifty skills to the corporate world of PR and advertising, becoming what he calls "your typically basic music biz whore"

Music that seemed to flow through the pages of Elegy in tandem with the offbeat characters proved to be the perfect, compelling narrative for a next generation of audiobook to accompany the novel. Inspired to create what Goldstein calls the "World's First Audio Book in Radio Form," the audio work is essentially a throwback to classic radio drama from the 30s and 40s. In many respects and with better technology, it is more like a modern film soundtrack overflowing with the music that defines New Orleans as well as the panorama of rock 'n roll legends influenced by the City's iconic musicians. The Beatles as well as Satchmo and Randy Newman plus dozens of other musical artists set the backdrop for this old-school radio drama heightened by the lush, ambient sounds of everyday New Orleans.

An Elegy for the Lost City is the first volume in this multimedia series of books and audiobooks by Johnny Goldstein.
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