yeah, thanks for the suggestion., I’ll throw them into themes, maybe. watch this space
I loved Harold Heath’s Long Relationships, probably my favourite dance music book over the past few years. Moby’s Porcelain is fantastic too, surprisingly hilarious.
But this is hands-down my fave music book from the past ten years:
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agree thoroughly enjoyed this read too
That’s quite a list @Slobodan
What is that Guralnick book about? Sounds like a memoir or autobiography. I loved his Elvis biographies.
Essays about musicians: Solomon Burke, Doc Pomus, Dick Curless , Willie Dixon, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash and many others. Brilliant writing…
Thanks, that sounds great! It’s nice to get an intro to somebody before diving into a whole book sometimes.
“I’m Ragged but I’m Right” is the Dick Curless song I know, a nice country cooker. He was a truck driver with an eye patch, right?
That’s right 
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Still my favourite ‘house’ book. Maybe my favourite book full stop haha
Currently reading the record players. Great interviews.
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Good one @Slobodan Nothing like a good country song about drinking to make you feel depressed 
‘Love Goes To Buildings On Fire’ is such a great book 
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I’ve just finished Stuart Cosgrove’s ‘Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul’, which is a very accuate description of its contents. I only bought it to make up a “two for a tenner” deal at Fopp (the other being Jeff Chang’s ‘Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation’, but have enjoyed it more than I was expecting to. Northern Soul is a pretty impenetrable scene - the whole point of it for many - and I thought I already knew as much as I needed. That’s probably still true, but this is an entertaining-enough personal account - from the early days until now - and particularly interesting in what happened after the Wigan Casino / Blackpool Mecca era… 
ooh. My barber is a 78rpm collector (and v fascinating on the subject of shellac)
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Thisa looks amazing. Early formats of recorded sound are covered very nicely in:
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We used that as research material for Last Night….
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Two of my favourites, one recent one old.
Lee Perry’s death sent me down a massive dub wormhole, Bass Culture completely schooled me on the development of sound system culture.
I first read Ocean of Sound in the mid 90s whilst at Uni as a fresh faced ambient techno warp devotee, it completely opened up a whole new world of music for me that I am still exploring today.
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I couldn’t handle the Paul Morley, Tony wilson… way more paul Morley than Tony wilson…. Had to give up… I did enjoy Bobby Gillespie’s book and found some of Sean Ryder’s - how to be a rockstar… equally, bland, pointless and endearing
I’ve heard this is great… gonna read it