In the American South, blacks and whites have been influencing each other's music for generations, from the hymns of the 18th century to the soul music of the 60s. Full of personal interviews, this book goes in search of the artists behind this blend of music.

Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted: The Countryside of Southern Soul

Arts & Photography

Hoskyns. Barney

Music

HarperCollins, Publishers

Reviews the human voice in modern music by examining a range of voices involved in jazz, gospel, blues reggae, country and soul singing. This book looks at artists such as Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke, Billie Holiday and James Brown. Barney Hoskyns also wrote "Say It One Time For the Brokenhearted".

From a Whisper to a Scream: The Great Voices of Popular Music

The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles' success in the late Seventies. 'Hotel California' is an epic tale of songs and sunshine, drugs and denim, genius and greed, and is the first in-depth account of the LA Canyons scene between 1967 and 1976. Hoskyn's history of this vital period in the development of today's great musical influences spans the rise of Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, The Eagles, James Taylor and Jackson Browne, and focuses on the brilliance and determination of David Geffen, the man who linked them all. Covering genius, drug-crazed disintegration, and the myriad relationships between these artists and the songs that issued from them, and drawing on extensive interviews with countless stars, singers, writers, managers, executives and scenesters, 'Hotel California' is a pop-culture classic.

Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the La Canyons, 1967-1976

Humor & Entertainment

Harperperennial

Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark music festival usurped the name, Woodstock-the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident-was already a key location in the '60s rock landscape. In Small Town Talk, Barney Hoskyns re-creates Woodstock's community of brilliant dysfunctional musicians, scheming dealers, and opportunistic hippie capitalists drawn to the area by Dylan and his sidekicks from the Band. Central to the book's narrative is the broodingly powerful presence of Albert Grossman, manager of Dylan, the Band, Janis Joplin, Paul Butterfield, and Todd Rundgren-and the Big Daddy of a personal fiefdom in Bearsville that encompassed studios, restaurants, and his own record label. Intertwined in the story are the Woodstock experiences and associations of artists as diverse as Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Tim Hardin, Karen Dalton, and Bobby Charles (whose immortal song-portrait of Woodstock gives the book its title). Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the scene-and on the period when he lived there himself in the 1990s-Hoskyns has produced an East Coast companion to his bestselling L.A. canyon classic Hotel California. This is a richly absorbing study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time and place.

Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Da Capo

Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark music festival usurped the name, Woodstock--the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident--was already a key location in the '60s rock landscape. Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the scene--and on the period when he lived there himself in the 1990s--Hoskyns has produced an East Coast companion to his bestselling L.A. canyon classic Hotel California. This is a richly absorbing study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time and place.

Small Town Talk

Provides a comprehensive look into the music, the music scene, and the musicians of Los Angeles, capturing their diversity and originality as seen during the past fifty years, from the jazz bars in the 1940s through the gangster rap of the present day.

Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes and the Sound of Los Angeles

St Martins Pr

Waiting for the Sun

St. Martin's: Griffin

Complemented by more than 150 black-and-white and color photographs, this close-up look at the life and career of James Dean reassesses his role as a social icon in the thirty-five years since his death

James Dean

Movies

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Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends

Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider's keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene. . . . This is a riveting story, sensitively told. —Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone
From enduring musical achievements to drug-fueled chaos and bed-hopping antics, the L.A. pop music scene in the sixties and seventies was like no other, and journalist Barney Hoskyns re-creates all the excitement and mayhem. Hotel California brings to life the genesis of Crosby, Stills, and Nash at Joni Mitchell’s house; the Eagles’ backstage fistfights after the success of ""Hotel California""; the drama of David Geffen and the other money men who transformed the L.A. music scene; and more.

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Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted: The Countryside of Southern Soul

From a Whisper to a Scream: The Great Voices of Popular Music

Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the La Canyons, 1967-1976

Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock

Small Town Talk

Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes and the Sound of Los Angeles

Waiting for the Sun

Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes and the Sound of Los Angeles

James Dean

Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends