Boy Who Cried Freebird

<p>Wedding the American oral storytelling tradition with progressive music journalism Mitch Myers' <em>The Boy Who Cried Freebird</em> is a treatise on the popular music culture of the twentieth century. Trenchant insightful and wonderfully strange this literary mix-tape is authentic music history . . . except when it isn't. Myers outrageously blends short fiction straight journalism comic interludes memoirs serious artist profiles satire and related fan-boy hokum--including the classic stories he first narrated on NPR's <em>All Things Considered</em>.</p><p>Focusing on iconic recordings events communities and individuals Myers riffs on Deadheads sixties nostalgia rock concert decorum glockenspiels and all manner of pop phenomena. From tales of rock-and-roll time travel to science fiction revealing Black Sabbath's power to melt space aliens <em>The Boy Who Cried Freebird</em> is about music culture legend and lore--all to be lovingly passed on to future generations.</p>