Here are 2 books that My Black Country fans have personally recommended if you like
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What’s unique about Kaplan’s take is how he organized his book around the careers of Davis, Trane, & Evans—their paths before their convergence and afterwards. There’s also a very interesting subtheme about heroin and jazz culture. This is one I’ll reread for sure.
“A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” —Los Angeles Times
From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists—Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans—who came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue
The myth of the ’60s depends on the 1950s being the “before times” of conformity, segregation, straightness—The Lonely…
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
Eddie Hinton was a mystery character to me before I read the book—a supremely talented Muscle Shoals guitarist who was Duane Allman’s first choice as vocalist for his band, before he called Gregg. I have a much better sense of why.
"Eddie was a black man in a white man's body. No one I've ever worked with or heard had any more Soul than Eddie did. His guitar playing was always tasteful, strong and distinctive... his voice grabbed you and pulled you in so that you not only heard it, but you felt it... and were mesmerized by it. He had a beautiful smile... but behind it were some inner thoughts that had to do with some deep pain that he kept hidden inside. That was one of the things that made him so intriguing, so interesting and so powerful."
