Deke Dickerson charts the birth of Rock & Roll music as we know it to the early 1950s, and a little seaside resort town called Wildwood, New Jersey. Long before Elvis stepped inside Sun Studio, Dickerson says it was a criminally underrated musical act called the Treniers who created Rock & Roll. Read on to see how the mix of rhythm & blues, jazz, swing, showbiz savvy, hillbilly, and country, all came together in a rowdy Jersey Shore resort town to create a music revolution.
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BELOVED, John Steinbeck s heartbreaking
THE GRAPES OF WRATH, and George Orwell s frighteningly relevant
1984.
Pre-lockdown, I wrestled with Argentine writer Rodrigo Fresán s
THE DREAMED PART (Open Letter Press, translated by Will Vanderhyden), the second in a trilogy. Like its predecessor,
The Invented Part, this massive, challenging, nonlinear tome about an unnamed writer takes you on a freewheeling, literary joyride.
Probably not surprisingly, much of my year s reading concerned music. An utter delight was Austin native Kathy Valentine s heartfelt
ALL I EVER WANTED: A ROCK N ROLL MEMOIR (UT Press), which traces her life growing up locally, playing in Austin punk bands, and following her dreams to L.A. to find R&R stardom with the Go-Go s. She really makes you feel it all: the ups, the downs, the parties, the drugs, the heartbreaks, the thrill of being family in a groundbreaking, hugely successful band.