Bob Gibson: I Come for to Sing : The Stops Along the Way of a Folk Music Legend - Couverture souple

Bender, Carole; Gibson, Bob

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1565549082 ISBN 13 : 9781565549081

Editeur : Pelican Publishing Co, 2001

Synopsis

Inspired by a meeting with Pete Seeger, a young Bob Gibson left behind a successful job to collect folk songs. This book follows Bob Gibson through his meteoric rise to fame, his twenty-year struggle with drug addiction, and his never-ending process of reinventing himself to find new expressions for his art. Two years after his life-changing meeting with Pete Seeger, Gibson burst onto the music scene with an unprecedented joy for his music. He not only changed public perception of what folk music was, but he helped to introduce a new format for the presentation of music, which became the coffeehouse circuit. His own arrangements of folk music, coupled with his original songs, began the trend of the 1950s and 1960s in which songwriters created their own modern day folk songs, giving expression to that turbulent era. This book includes the reminiscences and interviews with many musicians and songwriters including Gordon Lightfoot, Joan Baez, George Carlin, Judy Collins, and Odetta, as well as many others instrumental to the formulation of the folk-music revival of the 1960s.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pelican Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1565549082
• ISBN 13: 9781565549081
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 432