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

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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.

a collection of short stories all revolving aroud music, mostly rock but jazz, fusion and minimal. A hit or miss collection, mostly hit but a few clunkers. The longer stories including where Ozzie Osborne is called on to save us from aliens really rock. Well written and original and an easy read.

. . . that author Mitch Myers is the nephew of the late, great Shel Silverstein, this wouldn't have been suitable even to line a birdcage. This is basically nothing more than an attempt to trade on (and simultaneously trash) Silverstein's reputation. I know, because I knew Shel for years, and remember him as honorable, decent and loyal - traits Myers wouldn't know if he fell over them. Not to mention the unforgivably poor writing throughout. In short, avoid this and the so-called "biography," "A Boy Named Shel" - which also smacks of a half-truth-laden hatchet job.