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Guitar Man

Will Hodgkinson

  • 292 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2006
  • 8 editions
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1 About this book

"The guitar is central to popular music. It has an enduring appeal. Why should this be so? Will Hodgkinson, with only an afternoon's experience of bashing on a friend's guitar, wanted to find out. He hoped to teach himself a few chords too. On his journey ... he chats to Bert Jansch ... he talks to Johnny Marr and reclusive folk-guitar legend Davey Graham.

He travels to America and visits Roger McGuinn of the Byrds ... meets T. Model Ford, an old Blues man living in Mississippi. With a dawning realisation that his talent is limited, and conscious that his wife and children are bored with his obsession, Will wonders whether the gig that he's planned where he'll play in front of over two hundred people wont turn out to be a terrible mistake ...

Good for readers who want: humor, a true life story, and travel writing.

  • Humor
  • English wit and humor
  • Biography
  • Great britain, biography
  • Anecdotes
  • Travel
  • Rock music
  • Music

2 About Will Hodgkinson

 

Will Hodgkinson is a journalist and author from London (born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne), England. He is the chief rock and pop critic for The Times newspaper and contributes to Mojo magazine. He has written for The Guardian, The Independent and Vogue. Hodgkinson presents the Sky Arts TV show Songbook, in which he interviews contemporary songwriters.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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