| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Guitar fools -- A boy and his guitar -- Buckshot in short pants -- The cry of the muskrat -- Cats under the stars -- Vaseline machine gun -- More Saturday night -- Franklin Avenue -- Electric high heels -- Party to a crime -- Robots on death row -- Living in a house of cards -- Whistling past the graveyard -- Ferris wheels on the farm -- City of angels -- Mississippi farewell -- No money down -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- Ghosts of Woody Guthrie -- Martini gulch -- White boys lost in the blues -- From Russia with love -- Key to the highway -- Sisu -- Texas in the twilight zone -- Slings and arrows -- Barbeque and blues -- Iko-iko -- Slow justice -- Stars over the prairie -- Fireworks on the Fourth of July |
| Summary |
This is a musician's tale: the story of a boy growing up on the Iron Range, playing his guitar at family gatherings, coming of age in the psychedelic seventies, and honing his craft as a pro in Minneapolis, ground zero of American popular music in the mid-eighties. "There is a drop of blood behind every note I play and every word I write," Paul Metsa says. And it's easy to believe, as he conducts us on a musical journey across time and country, navigating switchbacks, detours, dead ends, and providing us the occasional glimpse of the promised land on the blue guitar highway. His account capture |
| Notes |
Includes discography |
| Subject |
Metsa, Paul.
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| SUBJECT |
Metsa, Paul fast |
| Subject |
Singers -- Minnesota -- Biography
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
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Singers
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Minnesota
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
081667874X |
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9780816678747 |
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9781452933214 |
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1452933219 |
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