Blue guitar highway / Paul Metsa ; foreword by David Carr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metsa, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metsa, Paul.

Singers--Minnesota--Biography.

Singers.

Minnesota.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]

Summary:

Metsa, a musician and songwriter from Minnesota, tells the story of his life and career in Minneapolis, from his childhood playing guitar at family gatherings to growing up in the sixties to sharing the stage with musicians like Billy Bragg, Pete Seeger, and Bruce Springsteen and interacting with others like the Replacements, Husker Du, Joey Ramone, Bettye LaVette, and Prince. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Guitar fools

A boy and his guitar

Buckshot in short pants

The cry of the muskrat

Cats under the stars

Vaseline machine gun

More Saturday night

Franklin Avenue

Electric high heels

Party to a crime

Robots on death row

Living in a house of cards

Whistling past the graveyard

Ferris wheels on the farm

City of angels

Mississippi farewell

No money down

Swing low, sweet chariot

Ghosts of Woody Guthrie

Martini gulch

White boys lost in the blues

From Russia with love

Key to the highway

Sisu

Texas in the twilight zone

Slings and arrows

Barbeque and blues

Iko-iko

Slow justice

Stars over the prairie

Fireworks on the Fourth of July.

Notes:

Includes discography.

ISBN:

9780816676422

0816676429

9780816676439

0816676437

OCLC:

719427925