Cigar Box Banjo : Notes on Music and Life

Name: Cigar Box Banjo
Brand: Greystone Books,Canada
SKU: 9781553654384
Price: 3250 KES
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ISBN: 9781553654384

by Paul Quarrington

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1553654382

ISBN-13 9781553654384

Publisher Greystone Books,Canada

Imprint Greystone Books,Canada

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 21st, 2010

Print length 264 Pages

Weight 467 grams

Product Classification: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups Biography: arts & entertainment

KSh 3,250.00

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In Paul Quarrington's favorite childhood recording, a boy fashions a banjo from a cigar box, pluckily sets off for a contest in the next town, and wins with a song that weaves in the sounds he hears along the way: a bluebird trilling, truck tires whining. Years later, a writer and musician himself, Quarrington is suddenly diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and begins to ponder the path his own life has taken and the music it's made along the way. Quarrington ruminates on the bands of his childhood; his restless youth, spent playing bass with a cult band; and his incarnation, in middle age, as rhythm guitarist and singer with the band Porkbelly Futures. From rock'n'roll to country and soul, he explores how songs are made, how they work, and why they affect us so deeply.

In Paul Quarrington''s favorite childhood recording, a boy fashions a banjo from a cigar box, pluckily sets off for a contest in the next town, and wins with a song that weaves in the sounds he hears along the way: a bluebird trilling, truck tires whining. Years later, a writer and musician himself, Quarrington is suddenly diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and begins to ponder the path his own life has taken and the music it''s made along the way. Quarrington ruminates on the bands of his childhood; his restless youth, spent playing bass with a cult band; and his incarnation, in middle age, as rhythm guitarist and singer with the band Porkbelly Futures. From rock’n’roll to country and soul, he explores how songs are made, how they work, and why they affect us so deeply.

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