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West Bank Boogie
West Bank Boogie has been named a finalist in the General Nonfiction category of the 19th Annual MN Book Awards. Winners will be announced May 5th, 2007. With lively interviews, classic photos, one-of-a-kind artifacts and memorabilia, "West Bank Boogie" celebrates more than 40 years of music from the Minneapolis artists who did so much to influence the soul of American music. From the legendary roots trio Koerner, Ray and Glover and R & B innovator Willie Murphy to folk music icons Bill Hinkley and Judy Larson, bluesman Lazy Bill Lucas, and bebop legend Eddie Berger, "West Bank Boogie" recalls the local folk, blues, jazz, and R & B scene that helped revive these musical genres nationwide. Many of these great musicians continue to perform on the West Bank. And "West Bank Boogie" keeps their music alive with a CD compilation of music from most of the musicians interviewed in the book.
172 pages, Paperback
First published November 22, 2006
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October 19, 2013
This oversize paperback (9.5 x 9.5 inches) comes with its own CD and forty years of West Bank Music, the West Bank being in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Minnesota? Who played music in Minnesota? Try Koerner, Ray and Glover, or Willie Murphy, Bill Hinkley and Judy Larson, Lazy Bill Lucas and Eddie Berger. Never heard of any of them? That is understandable, and if true this may not be a book for you. I do want to note that a few other people--Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, Leo Kottke, Milo Fine, Bob Bovee and many others also came out of Minn., Minn. They did not make it into the interviews in this book, mostly because they left. Many of the people interviewed left, too, but they came back, or left only to tour for a year or three.
If you have a taste for hard core roots music, for getting to know the people behind it, for getting a little inside the musician's life, then this is the place for you. Liberally augmented with photographs, Cyn Collins' introductions are informative and her interviews penetrating. Covering blues, folk, rock and roll, R & B, country---music---this was a joy to read.
With a Forward by Garrison Keillor.
Recommended
Minnesota? Who played music in Minnesota? Try Koerner, Ray and Glover, or Willie Murphy, Bill Hinkley and Judy Larson, Lazy Bill Lucas and Eddie Berger. Never heard of any of them? That is understandable, and if true this may not be a book for you. I do want to note that a few other people--Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, Leo Kottke, Milo Fine, Bob Bovee and many others also came out of Minn., Minn. They did not make it into the interviews in this book, mostly because they left. Many of the people interviewed left, too, but they came back, or left only to tour for a year or three.
If you have a taste for hard core roots music, for getting to know the people behind it, for getting a little inside the musician's life, then this is the place for you. Liberally augmented with photographs, Cyn Collins' introductions are informative and her interviews penetrating. Covering blues, folk, rock and roll, R & B, country---music---this was a joy to read.
With a Forward by Garrison Keillor.
Recommended
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