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Lucky Clark On Music: Peter Guralnick
Famed writer brings Maine s Dick Curless into spotlight in latest book Looking To Get Lost.
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One of my publicist connections sent me an email recently about a client of his who had written a book called “Looking To Get Lost” that contained a chapter concerning Dick Curless, whose song “Tombstone Every Mile” brought him national success and acclaim. I asked if the author, Peter Guralnick, was available for interviews. Even though I was nervous about chatting with the writer who had penned “Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley” (which Bob Dylan said was the, “unrivaled account of Elvis”), I was anxious to get his thoughts on Maine’s legendary country singer. On the 16th of last month, he called me from his West Newbury, Massachusetts home.
Buy Me Boston Volume 2 : A Look At Clever Ads From The 1960s to 1980s
Author Brian Coleman returns with the second volume of Buy Me Boston
, a curated collection of local ads and flyers that takes longtime Boston residents back to life between the 1960âs and 1980âs. Coleman spoke to GBH Radioâs Henry Santoro about his archival project. The transcript below has been edited for clarity.
Henry Santoro: Some of the many things that make Boston unique have been hiding in plain sight, and they ve been hiding for some time. They come in the form of old advertisements, everything from restaurants and hair salons to clothing stores and radio stations. There are flyers for bands that don t exist anymore, who are playing clubs that also don t exist anymore. Well, we can credit pop culture kingpin Brian Coleman for gathering up the crème de la crème of these local ads and flyers from the 1960âs through the 1980âs and putting them into books that he calls