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URBAN SPACEMEN & WAYFARING STRANGERS
Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators and Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock is a 300-page book (Miller Freeman, $22.95) with in-depth profiles of nineteen fascinating cult rock artists of the 1960s, in all cases including first-hand interview material with the artists themselves and/or their close associates. Lost British Invaders, psychedelic pioneers, rock funnymen, blue-eyed soulsters, overlooked folk-rockers, behind-the-scenes producers -- all find a home as part of _Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers,_with a foreword by Paul Kantner of the Jefferson Airplane.
The follow-up to _Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll,_this book does not duplicate any of the artists selected for that prior volume. Additionally, each of the twenty chapters runs about three times as long -- 5,000 to 15,000 words! -- as the average chapter in _Unknown Legends,_allowing much greater space for in-depth investigation of each acts. The book also includes a CD with tracks by several of the acts covered in the volume. The text is accompanied by photos and reviews of the most essential recordings by each artist.
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- Full list of artists in the book, with brief descriptions of each
- Pretty Things (chapter excerpt)
- Arthur Brown (chapter excerpt)
- Dino Valenti (chapter excerpt)
- Fred Neil (chapter excerpt)
- Transcripts of interviews done for _Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers._Exclusive to this website!
- List and descriptions of tracks on the accompanying CD
- Quotes about Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers
- Links to websites with yet more information about the artists
- Lists of the author's favorite 1960s rock albums, cult and otherwise
- Recommended reading: other books and publications of interest to cult rock aficionados To buy Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers:
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