Book description
For twenty years, Nick Tosches searched for facts about the life of Emmett Miller, a yodelling blackface performer whose songs prefigured jazz, country, blues and much of the popular music of the twentieth century.
Beginning with a handful of 78 rpm records and ending at a tombstone in a Macon,…Why read it?
1 author picked Where The Dead Voices Gather as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Like most people, I thought songs were songs. They were just there, as they always had been. I didn’t think much of their provenance or their context.
This book popped my brain wide open and hipped me that all those benign, been-there-forever items in the Great American Songbook were haunted by the ghosts of a country founded under some troubling circumstances. It is an endlessly fascinating and eerie dig through the graveyards of our shared musical heritage.
I will never hear the songs he shines a lantern light on in the same way again.
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