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 Post subject: Moanin' at Midnight
PostPosted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:29 pm 
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Best biog i have ever read so far! Even beats shakey the neil young story.

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that was supposed to go in the - What books have you bought recently?
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Just ordered it off Amazon. Cheers for that - it's got brilliant reviews.

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will have to get that!

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Any book that starts -

"Halley's Comet burned across the Mississippi night sky like a brakeman's lantern during June 1910, leading to suicides and whispers of Armageddon..."

-is alright by me :)

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That's my birthday prezzy sorted then. :D
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SimonK wrote:
Any book that starts -

"Halley's Comet burned across the Mississippi night sky like a brakeman's lantern during June 1910, leading to suicides and whispers of Armageddon..."

-is alright by me :)


I know! That really grabbed me when i first started reading it funnily enough. :)
Its unbelievable the shit that this man went through in his life, and also unbelievable the musicians he met and played with along the way! It just blows your mind.Truly a fantastic biog and im only halfway through it.

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super book, read it a couple of years ago.
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I'm really enjoying this book. Things were obviously a bit different back in Wolf's day - if your band wasn't performing to your satisfaction you just threatened 'em with a gun. :shock:
Perhaps that's why Richard's band are always so good. :*:
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i got that the day it came out i am sure there is a post somewhere about it,it is an astonishing book the wolf was an unbelievable musician,you don't need this book to appreciate him at all but with the book you definately see more of the man....well worth it

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"Wolf, in his unique way, exemplified a modern oxymoron, the avant-garde traditionalist. He took blues back to its roots in a manner which was simultaneously primitive and strikingly modern." --Mark Humphrey

A recent NPR piece is rather good and comes with video clips:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =130276817

"Everything fight about a spoonful."
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