by Crystal Zevon (Ecco, 452 pages) As with sports biographies (see my comments on a recent Jackie Robinson book), most music biographies are useful to fans and devotees but frequently are barely more than hagiographic efforts. The few exceptions that come to mind are David Hajdu‘s two books, one on Billy Strayhorn and the other [...]
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David Hajdu
“The smaller people, the smaller voices, are lost to history. But they are important as counterpoint and frequently important in their own right.”
Posted in Author Interviews, Music Interviews Also tagged Biographers, Bob Dylan, Folk, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez Farina, Music Journalists, NYC Writers, Positively 4th Street, Richard Farina, Robert Birnbaum
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