My First Guitar
Tales of True Love and Lost Chords
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2018
368 pages
978-0-285-64407-6 (ISBN)
Description
Julia Crowe interviews the world's leading guitarists, from Les Paul, Carlos Santana, Peter Frampton and Jimmie Vaughan, Joe Satriani, Melissa Etheridge, to Lee Ranaldo, George Benson and Jimmy Page. In interviews that offer an intimate insights into their beginnings as they recall their first instrument and share their memories of the inspiration, challenges, and successes of their early days.
"Collecting these tales has been admittedly addictive because each story is as unique, compelling and illuminating as the performer... My intent was simple - to ask the artists to speak for themselves." - Julia Crowe
Crossing a vast array of genres, showing the common experience of all guitarists, Julia Crowe offers intimate and deeply human insights into a musician's beginnings as her interviewees recall their first instrument and share their memories of the inspiration, challenges, and successes of those early days.
"Collecting these tales has been admittedly addictive because each story is as unique, compelling and illuminating as the performer... My intent was simple - to ask the artists to speak for themselves." - Julia Crowe
Crossing a vast array of genres, showing the common experience of all guitarists, Julia Crowe offers intimate and deeply human insights into a musician's beginnings as her interviewees recall their first instrument and share their memories of the inspiration, challenges, and successes of those early days.
Reviews / Votes
Anyone who loves guitars and guitar players (whether or not you're a player yourself) will love looking through this book. -- American Songwriter * . * I knew the guitar was going to be part of my life from the first time I was able to play something and put together a sequence of chords. -- Jimmy Page * . * It's not just about the first guitars or the players themselves, really... This is life, told and celebrated through guitars -- Premier Guitar * . * Ask a musician to talk about their first instrument and it seems that they are off and running, full of anecdotes, joy and poetic longing. -- Graham Parker * . *All prices
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Black and white photographs
ISBN-13
978-0-285-64407-6 (9780285644076)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
03/2018
Souvenir Press Ltd
€42.32
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Person
Julia Crowe is a guitar soloist and composer, and has released albums including Empire of Light and Smoke & Steel. She is the founder of the online webzine, The Guitar, at the-guitar.com.
