Book description
In I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound, musician Mike Doughty presents stories about life on the road as an indie rock musician, taking readers deep inside the dislocated life of an itinerant performer, the exhilaration and terror involved in getting up in front of strangers night after night,…
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Mike Doughty has always been one of my favorite musicians. He's also dabbled in non-fiction over the years – poetry, memoirs, and even a long ago blog called "Peach Pit Babylon" analyzing old episodes of Beverly Hills 90210. He has a way with words in a hybrid high-brow / slacker way that's always resonated with me.
His second memoir, I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound, focuses half on him reminiscing about the first time he encountered specific bands or songs that blew his mind and half on his experience as a mid-tier alt rock celebrity in the…
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