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"On to the
Next One" by
Jacqueline Van Bierk
"I See You
Tiger" by Via Tania
"Lost the
Plot" by Amoureux"
Bright Eyes,
Black Soul" by The Lovers
Key
"Cool Thing"
by Sassparilla
"These Halls I Dwell"
by Michael Butler
"St. Francis"by
Tom Russell & Gretchen Peters, performance by Gretchen
Peters and Barry Walsh;
"Who Do You
Love?"by Elizabeth Kay;
"Rebirth"by
Caterpillars;
"Monica's
Frock" by
Signel-Z;
"Natural
Disasters" by
Corey Landis;
"1,000
Leather Tassels" by
The Blank Tapes;
"We Are All Stone" and "Those
Machines" by Outer
Minds;
"Another Dream" by MMOSS;
"Susannah" by Woolen
Kits;
Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley,
Michael Jackson and other dead celebrities / news by A
SECRET PARTY;
"I Miss the Day" by My
Secret Island,
"Carriers of Light" by Brendan
James;
"The Last Time" by Model
Stranger;
"Last Call" by Jay;
"Darkness" by Leonard
Cohen;
"Sweetbread" by Simian
Mobile Disco and
"Keep You" fromActress off
the Chronicle movie soundtrack;
"Goodbye to
Love" from October
Dawn;
Trouble in
Mind 2011 label
sampler;
Black Box
Revelation Live
on Minnesota Public Radio;
Apteka "Striking
Violet";
Mikal
Cronin's "Apathy"
and "Get Along";
Dana
deChaby's progressive
rock
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ATWOOD - "A Toiler's Weird Odyssey of Deliverance" -AVAILABLE
NOW FOR KINDLE (INCLUDING KINDLE COMPUTER APPS) FROM
AMAZON.COM. Use
this link.
CCJ Publisher Rick Alan Rice dissects
the building of America in a trilogy of novels
collectively calledATWOOD. Book One explores
the development of the American West through the
lens of public policy, land planning, municipal
development, and governance as it played out in one
of the new counties of Kansas in the latter half of
the 19th Century. The novel focuses on the religious
and cultural traditions that imbued the American
Midwest with a special character that continues to
have a profound effect on American politics to this
day. Book One creates an understanding about
America's cultural foundations that is further
explored in books two and three that further trace
the historical-cultural-spiritual development of one
isolated county on the Great Plains that stands as
an icon in the development of a certain brand of
American character. That's the serious stuff viewed
from high altitude. The story itself gets down and
dirty with the supernatural, which in ATWOOD
- A Toiler's Weird Odyssey of Deliveranceis the
outfall of misfires in human interactions, from the
monumental to the sublime. The
book features the epic poem "The
Toiler" as
well as artwork by New Mexico artist Richard
Padilla.
Elmore Leonard
Meets Larry McMurtry
Western Crime
Novel
I am offering another
novel through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing service.
Cooksin is the story of a criminal syndicate that sets its
sights on a ranching/farming community in Weld County, Colorado,
1950. The perpetrators of the criminal enterprise steal farm
equipment, slaughter cattle, and rob the personal property of
individuals whose assets have been inventoried in advance and
distributed through a vast system of illegal commerce.
It is a ripping good yarn, filled
with suspense and intrigue. This was designed intentionally to
pay homage to the type of creative works being produced in 1950,
when the story is set. Richard Padilla
has done his usually brilliant work in capturing the look and feel of
a certain type of crime fiction being produced in that era. The
whole thing has the feel of those black & white films you see on
Turner Movie Classics, and the writing will remind you a little
of Elmore Leonard, whose earliest works were westerns.
Use this link.
EXPLORE THE KINDLE
BOOK LIBRARY
If you have not explored the books
available from Amazon.com's Kindle Publishing
division you would do yourself a favor to do so. You
will find classic literature there, as well as tons
of privately published books of every kind. A lot of
it is awful, like a lot of traditionally published
books are awful, but some are truly classics. You
can get the entire collection of Shakespeare's works
for two bucks.
You do not need to buy a Kindle to
take advantage of this low-cost library. Use
this link to go to an Amazon.com page from which you
can download for free a Kindle App for
your computer, tablet, or phone.
Amazon is the largest,
but far from the only digital publisher. You can
find similar treasure troves atNOOK
Press (the
Barnes & Noble site), Lulu,
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Publisher's Weekly Test
You Just Don't Love
Books!
Publisher's Weekly published a list this week of 32 books,
released on October 2, which is a big publishing period with
the run-up to Christmas season, and which are supposed to
test your resistance to books in any form.
The veneration of books just because they are books is
almost religious in its calling, like some vestigial gland
that forces us to recall the dark ages and before, when
forms of knowledge sharing were precious. Though how that
fits in the world of now, when the big argument in
publishing is how early, if at all, to offer a digital
version of their new products, is hard to know. The
publisher's digital dilemma, with the advent and popularity
of the digital Reader, is that book publishers have seen how
the recording industry has been destroyed by unauthorized
file sharing. In these times, once the digits are out of the
box it is game up in terms of stanching the viral
distribution of copyrighted material.
There remains a buffer in the book publishing industry,
in that people still relate to books as decor; as shelf
material, proofs to those who don't know you that you can
read. Now what you read may still be extremely
revealing.
This brings us back to this list of 32 books that are
supposed to be so irresistible that only a heathen could
find nothing there to like. This, of course, offered with
the understanding that Publisher's Weekly is a mouthpiece
for publishing houses who would certainly like for you to
feel that they have published a bunch of product worth
buying.
I don't know...
Use this link to review the Thrilling 32 and get back to
me with your reviews. - RAR
Publishing Trends
There is an excellent Website,
Publishing Trends,
that is a gold mine for anyone interested in knowing about
what is going on in the major publishing houses.
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For more book review information from the
RARWRITER Publishingl Group, visit the
Written Arts page, and also
use this link to
go to the Book page at the Revolution Culture Journal.
The Chitlin'
Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll
Suggested
Reading:
To learn more about the famed "Chitlin' Circuit", so named for
the food served at these Black venues (a take-off on the
"Borscht Belt"), check out Preston Lauterbach's excellent
account.
Taking up the role previously played by the Theater Owners
Booking Association, these seminal entrepreneurs devised a new
and more flexible economic strategy that selectively targeted
the production of live performances in a seemingly endless
string of black urban venues and back-country juke joints. They
adapted the “jazz orchestra” model into smaller, more-informal
units that began to shift their attention from snappy big-band
arrangements to charismatic lead performers and especially
compelling lead vocalists. - Reviewer Roger Hahn, putting
Lauterbach's history into context.
W. W. Norton &
Company (July 18, 2011)
INDIE MUSIC BIBLE
Now in its 13th year of publication as an annual guide to
the music industry, "Indie Bible" is now available on line,
as well. Click on the graphic above to go to the site for a
free trial. You get industry listings and information that
is updated daily.
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