Song Man: A Melodic Adventure, or, My Single-Minded Approach to Songwriting
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Song Man continues the story begun in Guitar Man, in which a writer who has taught himself guitar badly sets out to understand how songs are made and to record one of his own. Rather than a manual, the book is a personal quest, shaped by the author's humor and by a small crew of misfits who return from the earlier book. Along the way he takes one-on-one lessons from a remarkable group of musicians, from famous rock stars to cult figures and lesser-known muses, each offering a different angle on the craft. The result is part comic adventure and part serious investigation into one of the most elusive forms of art, a journey of discovery for anyone who has wondered where a good tune comes from.
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