The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling

by Mitch Myers

Book Overview

Wedding the American oral storytelling tradition with progressive music journalism, Mitch Myers' The Boy Who Cried Freebird is a treatise on the popular music culture of the twentieth century. Trenchant, insightful, and wonderfully strange, this literary mix-tape is authentic music history . . . except when it isn't. Myers outrageously blends short fiction, straight journalism, comic interludes, memoirs, serious artist profiles, satire, and related...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061139017
• ISBN13: 9780061139017
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: It Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Fun and Information

Mitch Myers' collection of stories and articles are a varied collection. Deaheads will likely hope for more of the tales of Adam Coil in his various incarnations. Other pieces are cogent, accurate and fascinating expansions of liner notes for various albums from jazz to Allen Ginsberg and Terry Riley. If you are a fan of any of this music you will love this book. Having read some of these pieces in their original form and heard some of these done on NPR I am struck at the great quality of them collected together tweaked to perfection. This is his first book and I can only hope that there will be more to come soon.