Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera: 133 (33 1/3) - Tapa blanda

Libro 131 de 192: 33 1/3

Fertel, Dr. Rien

 
9781501331787: Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera: 133 (33 1/3)

Sinopsis

The Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera takes listeners on a road trip through the American South, with stops along mean old highways and soul-sucking swamps, iconic recording studios and doomed chartered jets, and even Heaven and Hell. Along the way, the Truckers attempt to untangle the mess that is southern history by exploring the contradictory, dualistic nature of the region.

Like twin paths intersecting and diverging before meeting again, the opera's libretto focuses on the lives of two bands: the fictional Betamax Guillotine, a stand-in for the Truckers themselves, and Southern rock gods Lynyrd Skynyrd. Rien Fertel takes us for a ride along the Truckers' winding road through the opera's Southlands, a region filled with youthful rockstar aspirations, fatal crashes, the wreckage of one band gone too soon, and the ambitions of another wrestling with the great hope and tragedy that is America.

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Acerca del autor

Rien Fertel is a writer and teacher whose work has been published in dozens of magazines and journals. He is author of The Creole City (Louisiana State University Press, 2014) and One True Barbecue (Simon & Schuster, 2016). He lives in New Orleans.

De la contraportada

The author of "The One Tree Barbecue" takes on the Drive By Truckers' "Southern Rock Opera" in this addition to the popular "33 1/3" series, viewing the album in relation to the nuances and contradictions of the contemporary American south.

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