Jones Dylan Wichita Lineman: Searching in the Sun for the World`s Greatest Unfinished Song 9780571353408

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Автор: Jones Dylan
Название: Wichita Lineman: Searching in the Sun for the World`s Greatest Unfinished Song
ISBN: 9780571353408
Издательство: Faber
Классификация:

Музыка

Теория музыки и музыковедение

Музыкальные обзоры и критика

Рок и поп-музыка

Композиторы и музыканты, музыкальные группы

ISBN-10: 0571353401
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 128
Вес: 0.23 кг.
Дата издания: 03.09.2019
Язык: English
Издание: Main
Размер: 200 x 139 x 27
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Searching in the sun for the world`s greatest unfinished song
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Dylan Jones luminous excavation of Jimmy Webbs song Wichita Lineman offers a portal into a defining moment of American cultural history. The sound of Wichita Lineman was the sound of ecstatic solitude - but then its hero was the quintessential loner. What a great metaphor he was: a man who needed a woman more than he actually wanted her. Here, deep in American Arcadia, was a man in deep existential crisis.
Written in 1968 by Jimmy Webb, Wichita Lineman is the first philosophical country song: a heartbreaking torch ballad still celebrated for its mercurial songwriting genius 50 years later. It was recorded by Glen Campbell in LA with a legendary group of musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, and something about the songs enigmatic mood seemed to capture the tensions of America at a moment of unprecedented crisis. Fusing a dribble of bass, searing strings, tremolo guitar and Glen Campbells plaintive vocals, Webbs paean to the American West describes a telephone linemans longing for an absent lover who he hears singing in the wire - and like all good love songs, its an SOS from the heart.
Mixing close-listening, interviews and travelogue, Dylan Jones explores the legacy of a record that has entertained, perplexed and haunted millions for over half a century. What is it about this song that continues to fascinate and seduce listeners, and how did the parallel stories of Campbell and Webb - songwriters and recording artists from different ends of the spectrum - unfold in the decades following the songs success? Part biography, part work of musicological archaeology, The Wichita Lineman opens a window onto America in the late twentieth century through the prism of a song that has been covered by myriad artists in the intervening decades.

Wichita Lineman: Searching in the Sun for the World`s Greatest Unfinished Song, Jones Dylan