![]() ![]() ![]() By the 1980s, Charlie was battling his own demons, but emerged unscathed to enhance his unparalleled reputation even further over the ensuing decades. He was there throughout the swinging ’60s, the early shot at superstardom and the Stones’ world conquest and throughout the debauchery of the 1970s, typified by 1972’s Exile on Main St., considered one of the great albums of the century. Once installed at the drum seat, he didn’t miss a gig, album or tour in his 60 years in the band. A student of jazz drumming, he was headhunted by the band after bumping into them regularly in London’s rhythm and blues clubs. THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “ Charlie Watts was one of the most decorated musicians in the world, having joined The Rolling Stones, a few months after their formation, early in 1963. ![]() ![]() It would be playing something old and Mexican, from a time when the border was a place not of peril but of possibility.”Ĭharlie’s Good Tonight: The Authorized Biography of Charlie Watts If this book were a radio signal, you might first pick it up on an Arizona highway, well south of Phoenix, coming into the glow of Ronstadt’s hometown of Tucson. This road trip through the desert, written in collaboration with former New York Times writer Lawrence Downes and illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs by Bill Steen, features recipes for traditional Sonoran dishes and a bevy of revelations for Ronstadt’s admirers. Following her bestselling musical memoir, Simple Dreams, this book seamlessly braids together Ronstadt’s recollections of people and their passions in a region little understood in the rest of the United States. Growing up the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants and a descendant of Spanish settlers near northern Sonora, Ronstadt’s intimate new memoir celebrates the marvelous flavors and indomitable people on both sides of what was once a porous border whose denizens were happy to exchange recipes and gather around campfires to sing the ballads that shaped Ronstadt’s musical heritage. THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “In Feels Like Home, Grammy-winning singer Linda Ronstadt effortlessly evokes the magical panorama of the high desert, a landscape etched by sunlight and carved by wind, offering a personal tour built around meals and memories of the place where she came of age. Meditative, surprising, playful, and provocative, A Ballet of Lepers is vivid in its detail, unsparing in its gaze, and reveals the great artist and visceral genius like never before.”įeels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands The titular novel, A Ballet of Lepers - one he later remarked was “probably a better novel” than his celebrated book The Favourite Game - is a haunting examination of these elements, while the fifteen stories, as well as the playscript, probe the inner demons of his characters, many of whom could function as stand-ins for the author himself. Written between 1956 in Montreal, just as Cohen was publishing his first poetry collection, and 1961, when he’d settled on Greece’s Hydra island, the pieces in this collection offer startling insight into Cohen’s imagination and creative process, and explore themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. In A Ballet of Lepers, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen’s unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning. THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before Hallelujah and So Long, Marianne and Famous Blue Raincoat, the young Leonard Cohen wrote poetry and fiction and yearned for literary stardom. Along with Charlie, Sly, King Curtis and Human League, they’re some of the bigger names hitting the bookshelves next week. ![]()
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