Conscious Bob
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This is a book on singers and musicians drawn from popular music.
Huey Morgan sets out his stall on page one with a three paragraph summary on the death of Kurt Cobain which is as succinct as it is brief. I thought the rest of the book was going to be similarly bleak, not so.
Kurt Cobain is a thread in a woven tapestry to explain what authenticity means to Huey. Many of his examples had short lives but that isn't the reason for their inclusion.
What the book boils down to is that great music is more often than not the product of imperfect people and their circumstances so the book's a balancing act that doesn't dip too far toward either caracature or reverence and as a result projects genuine warmth, humour and a certain sense of outrage, probably because Huey's a performer himself.
Insightful, interesting and reflective.
Huey Morgan sets out his stall on page one with a three paragraph summary on the death of Kurt Cobain which is as succinct as it is brief. I thought the rest of the book was going to be similarly bleak, not so.
Kurt Cobain is a thread in a woven tapestry to explain what authenticity means to Huey. Many of his examples had short lives but that isn't the reason for their inclusion.
What the book boils down to is that great music is more often than not the product of imperfect people and their circumstances so the book's a balancing act that doesn't dip too far toward either caracature or reverence and as a result projects genuine warmth, humour and a certain sense of outrage, probably because Huey's a performer himself.
Insightful, interesting and reflective.