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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metsa, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singers--Minnesota--Biography.

Singers.

Metsa, Paul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a musician's tale: the story of a boy growing up on the Iron Range, playing his guitar at family gatherings, coming of age in the psychedelic seventies, and honing his craft as a pro in Minneapolis, ground zero of American popular music in the mid-eighties. "There is a drop of blood behind every note I play and every word I write," Paul Metsa says. And it's easy to believe, as he conducts us on a musical journey across time and country, navigating switchbacks, detours, dead ends, and providing us the occasional glimpse of the promised land on the blue guitar highway.His account capture

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:

1-4529-3321-9

0-8166-7874-X

OCLC:

768082772