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True love cast out all evil : the songwriting legacy of Roky Erickson / [edited by] Brian T. Atkinson ; forewords by Billy Gibbons and Henry Rollins.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.E733 T78 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- John and Robin Dickson series in Texas music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Erickson, Roky.
- Rock musicians--Texas--Biography.
- Rock musicians--United States--Interviews.
- Rock musicians.
- Psychedelic rock music.
- United States.
- Texas.
- Psychedelic rock music--United States--History and criticism.
- 13th Floor Elevators (Musical group).
- Bleib Alien (Musical group).
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 240 pages, 36 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- ""Transcendence came with a price," Brian T. Atkinson writes in his introduction to this collection of reflections by and about pioneer psychedelic rocker Roky Erickson (1947-2019). The singer and songwriter who fronted the 13th Floor Elevators burst onto the Texas music scene in 1966 with the release of "You're Gonna Miss Me," the band's only charting single, which featured Erickson's primal vocal stylings. The band attracted considerable regional attention, including interest from a young Janis Joplin, who considered joining the group before opting to go to San Francisco instead. Through his interviews with those who were there and presentation of Erickson's own words, Atkinson chronicles how Erickson was haunted for most of his life by mental illness, likely compounded by his liberal usage of hallucinogenic and other drugs. Despite that, however, his influence on Texas musicians of various genres is vast. As Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top attests in his foreword, "He stands alone to this day and is revered as an artist because he had the gift of a wonderful voice." As with his previous books on Townes Van Zandt, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Mickey Newbury, Atkinson has recorded hours of interviews with veteran and upcoming musicians who were impacted by Roky Erickson. Along with the insights of long-time music journalists like Joe Nick Patoski and the bittersweet recollections of friends and family members like Mikel Erickson, brother of the singer, this work includes poetry and lyrics written by Erickson during his confinement at Rusk State Hospital in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The picture that emerges is that of a brilliant, troubled mind and an artist whose influence extended far beyond the period of his greatest notoriety, continuing even beyond his death"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
- Selected Timeline for the 13th Floor Elevators
- Prologue: Roky Erickson
- Openers I 13th Floor Elevators
- Verse: You're Gonna Miss Me
- Mike "Miguel" Pankratz
- Mikel Erickson
- Clementine Hall
- Ray Wylie Hubbard
- Bill entley
- "Crazy" Carl Hickerson
- Roky Erickson
- Powell St. John
- Sandy Lockett
- John Ike Walton
- Frank Davis
- Dana Gaines Erickson
- Evelyn Erickson
- Billy Miller
- Chorus: Goodbye Sweet Dreams
- pt. II The Interpreter
- Selected Timeline for Roky Erickson's Solo Career
- Openers II Roky Erickson's Solo Career
- Verse: Two-Headed Dog
- Joe Nick Patoski
- Stu Cook
- Chris "Cosmo Topper" Knab
- Howard Thompson
- Dan Cook
- Jon Dee Graham
- Mike Alvarez
- Mike Jensen
- Mike Haskins
- Gregg Turner
- Freddie "Steady" Krc
- Harold F. Eggers Jr.
- Will Sexton
- Bridge: Starry Eyes
- Henry Rollins
- Casey Monahan
- Stuart Sullivan
- Shawn Sahm
- Dylan Carlson
- Mark Lanegan
- Bill Bentley
- Bruce Hughes
- John Wesley Harding
- Jeff Heiskell
- Cris Kirkwood
- Jeffrey "King" Coffey
- Jeff Smith
- Carolyn Wonderland
- Shelley King
- Troy Campbell
- Darren Hill
- Chorus: True Love Cast out All Evil
- Will Sheff
- Alex Maas
- Sam Bryant
- Bonnie Bloomgarden
- Larry Schemel
- Scott H. Biram
- Chris Fullerton
- Will Cullen Hart
- Emily Nokes
- Kassie Carlson
- Dom Flemons
- Dean Wareham
- Pete Kember
- Jonathan Donahue
- Isaiah Mitchell
- Parker Griggs
- Charles Michael Parks Jr.
- Ambrose Kenny-Smith
- Stuart Braithwaite
- Ghost Tracks
- Patrick McGarrigle
- Dana Gaines Erickson.
- Notes:
- Includes discographies and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: True love cast out all evil
- ISBN:
- 9781648430435
- 1648430430
- OCLC:
- 1256627777
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