‘Josh Alan Friedman has chops like a wolf. The French had a phrase for his tropism for the seedy, the gutter, the outcasts: nostalgie de la boue. This book deserves wide attention.’ –Jerry Wexler, co-founder of Atlantic Records
‘A can’t-put-it-down rock ‘n’ roll read … a must for any fan of good music writing and great storytelling.’ –William Michael Smith, Houston Press
‘He dances off the page, improvises, hits all the grace notes. He knows the turfspeak of both showbiz and quality lit.’ –Michael Simmons, High Times
‘The architects and the artists, the legends and the liars, the famously acclaimed and the anonymously unsung… each one a delectable bit of voyeurism.’ –Pop Matters
Back in print in a new, definitive edition, this unflinching, critically acclaimed collection by BLACK CRACKER author Josh Alan Friedman gets up close and personal with some of the most important and unsung figures in 20th century blues and rock ‘n’ roll. From household names to the unacknowledged architects behind both the unforgettable sounds and the multi-billion-dollar industry, here are music’s big winners and tragic losses; the self-made, the self-serving, and the self-destructive. Friedman captures intimate insights, unearths secret histories, and shines a light on parts of the music business most prefer not to talk about.
An antidote to antiseptic cultural mythologizing, TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED is show business without the showbiz. After too many years out of circulation, TRUTH is back.
About the author
Writer Wyatt Doyle is co-founder of New Texture, launching their publishing imprint in 2006. He assisted Georgina Spelvin in the publication of her memoir, THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT, and served as editor and publisher of BLACK CRACKER by Josh Alan Friedman for his own imprint, Wyatt Doyle Books. He is co-founder, editor, and designer of The Men’s Adventure Library series. A collection of Doyle’s stories illustrated by Stanley J. Zappa, STOP REQUESTED, is available from New Texture, as are his photography collections, DOLLAR HALLOWEEN and I NEED REAL TUXEDO AND A TOP HAT!
Doyle curates the New Texture website, as well as Josh Alan Friedman’s Black Cracker Online and Rev. Raymond Branch’s Rev Branch.com
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