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Jim Walsh - Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes - 9781517901813 - V9781517901813
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Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes

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Description for Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes hardcover. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 147 x 28. Weight in Grams: 476.

Bar Yarns and Manic Depressive Mix Tapes distills thirty delirious, jam-packed years of some of the best music writing ever to come out of the Twin Cities. As a writer and musician, the ever-curious Jim Walsh has lived a life immersed in music, and it all makes its way into his columns and feature articles, interviews and reviews, including personal essays on life, love, music, family, death, and, yes, the manic-depressive highs and lows that come with being an obsessive music lover and listener. 

From Minneapolis’s own Prince to such far-flung acts as David Bowie, the Waterboys, Lucinda Williams, Parliament-Funkadelic, L7, ... Read more

The book is also a tour (de force) of the Twin Cities' most celebrated music venues past and present, from the Prom Ballroom to Paisley Park to Duffy's. When Walsh isn't celebrating the sheer magic of live music or dreaming to tunes blasting from the car console, he might be surveying the scene with the Hamm's Bear at Grumpy's or the Double Deuce or singing the last night at the Uptown Bar blues. Whether he's dishing dirt with Yoko Ono or digging the Replacements' roots, giving an old rocker a spin or offering a mic to the latest upstart, Jim Walsh reminds us that in the land of a thousand lakes there are a thousand dances, and the music never dies.

Capturing the pure notes and character of the sound of the Twin Cities and beyond, with a keen eye for trends and the telling detail, his book truly is a mix tape of thirty years of unforgettable music.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9781517901813
SKU
V9781517901813
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Jim Walsh
Jim Walsh is a Minneapolis-based writer, journalist, columnist, and songwriter and the author of The Replacements: All Over But The Shouting: An Oral History and, with Dennis Pernu, The Replacements: Waxed Up Hair and Painted Shoes: The Photographic History. The former music editor at City Pages and pop music columnist at the St.Paul Pioneer Press and current staff columnist at ... Read more

Reviews for Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes
"Jim Walsh has been the introspective and thoughtful voice of a generation that reenergized Minnesota music and gave it to the world. This is a book about a man in love with music."—Chris Osgood of The Suicide Commandos "Most mere mortals would have burned out after so many years and so many decibels and late nights, but Jim Walsh ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes


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