The Ballad Of Jim Shelley: My Life As A Failed Rock Star

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Pop & Rock, Rock, Music Styles, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Jim Shelley ISBN: 9781465706263
Publisher: Jim Shelley Publication: January 19, 2012
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Jim Shelley
ISBN: 9781465706263
Publisher: Jim Shelley
Publication: January 19, 2012
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

It's a chronicle of the last fifty years of American culture as viewed through the lens of one man's love affair with rock and roll. It's an inspiring, sometimes humorous, sometimes despairing, personal reflection on growing up a small town misfit in the '60s and '70s. It's a soap opera. It's a manual for how (and how not) to run a band and a treatise on songwriting and recording. Finally, it's an eccentric philosophical examination of desire, inspiration, and creativity. It's The Ballad Of Jim Shelley, the autobiography of a self-proclaimed “failed rock star” whom music critic Jim Santo called “one of America's great 'unknown' songsmiths”, Splendid magazine labeled “a cult hero”, and of whom Alternative Press wrote, “Jim Shelley belongs in the lo-fi pantheon...a handful of lost souls worship this guy.”

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It's a chronicle of the last fifty years of American culture as viewed through the lens of one man's love affair with rock and roll. It's an inspiring, sometimes humorous, sometimes despairing, personal reflection on growing up a small town misfit in the '60s and '70s. It's a soap opera. It's a manual for how (and how not) to run a band and a treatise on songwriting and recording. Finally, it's an eccentric philosophical examination of desire, inspiration, and creativity. It's The Ballad Of Jim Shelley, the autobiography of a self-proclaimed “failed rock star” whom music critic Jim Santo called “one of America's great 'unknown' songsmiths”, Splendid magazine labeled “a cult hero”, and of whom Alternative Press wrote, “Jim Shelley belongs in the lo-fi pantheon...a handful of lost souls worship this guy.”

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