| Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story - The Life and Times of a Rock'n'Roll Hero | 
 enlarge | Author: Tony Scherman
Creator: Wynton Marsalis
Publisher: Smithsonian Books,US
Category: Book
Buy New: £23.43
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 79762
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 196
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 1560988444
Dewey Decimal Number: 786.9164092
EAN: 9781560988441
ASIN: 1560988444
Publication Date: April 30, 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
No Earl, No Rock n' Roll June 9, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
First,let me say that the " vibe " of the text is very real. No prettied-up coffee table type language. It's like Earl is talking to you. Much of the text feels like a conversation with all the stops , starts, asides and little word plays you find inconversation. And this makes the words jump off the page. I was laughing in the 1st few seconds after I opened the book and dove in. The man is funny, tells it like it is and says what he wants the way he wants to. His stories about growing up are priceless and if you are a musician or a music lover his musician stories alone are worth the price of the book, and then some. He is so important as a musician that to sy No Earl, No Rock n' Roll is no exaggeration. He refined and encapsulated the BEAT in RnR. And being from New Orleans didn't hurt either. His stories about growing up there are fantastic. BTW he's still going strong and gigging. Played on a B.B. King record recently. Buy this book. Read it. Learn from it. I love it.
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