California Slim: The Music, The Magic and The Madness - Andrew J. Bernstein

Descriere California Slim: The Music, The Magic and The Madness - Andrew J. Bernstein

\nThere are literary reminiscences that reek of self-congratulation over the authors' \nproximity to famous movers and shakers. Andy Bernstein's California Slim aspires \nto far more than that-and achieves it. Andy was there, at the onset of the post-'50s \nrevolution that, as a beat poet once put it, roared as it ripped the threadbare fabric \nof an age. Andy was no distant, casual observer during the tumultuous '60s and \n'70s; he was at the heart of the maelstrom, and writes about it with candor, humor, \nand originality. \n \nThe story begins, for God's sake, with Andy and his then unknown banjo teacher, \na young Jerry Garcia, fingerpicking in a back room at Dana Morgan's Music Studio \nin Palo Alto in 1962. A skinny six-foot-seven-inch Jewish kid (later known as California \nSlim), Andy divided his time between the usual adolescent interests and \nmusic, for which he would go on to provide a capital M by promoting and staging \nconcerts throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. His Palo Alto nightclub, Homer's \nWarehouse, across the street from the Stanford University campus, brought revolutionary \nmusicians (among them, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) to young \nsensibilities hungry for new driving rhythms and thought-provoking lyrics. \n \nThe early chapters of this book set the stage for Andy's eventual hooking-up with \nWillie Nelson and his Family-which felt, Andy said, like reading a really good \nbook that I couldn't put down. That feeling led directly, if gradually, to California \nSlim. And you, dear reader, won't be able to put it down, either. \n \n-Tony Compagno

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