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Bookstore — The Engine Room on Paper: a reader's guide to memoirs by session musicians
The players who filled the studios wrote some of music writing's most revealing books. Here is how to read them well.
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Narratives from the Crib — Narratives of the Road: What Touring Memoirs Reveal About the Unglamorous Side of Making It
Van diaries, motel receipts and soundcheck boredom: the touring memoir tells the part of the music story the highlight reel leaves out.
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The Voice on the Page: What Oral Histories Do That Memoirs Cannot
A memoir gives you one memory, polished. An oral history hands you the argument itself — and music stories are usually arguments.