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Book 28 - Tom Gatti "Long Players"
Apr. 8th, 2023 02:20 pmTom Gatti "Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them"(Bloomsbury)
It does what it says on the front cover. Fifty short essays by various writers and authors, plus a few musicians, on albums that have changed their lives or meant something special to them.
In just over two hundred pages you get the reasons why these albums mean so much to the writers and each is fascinating and insightful.
It's a book that can be dipped into any of the essays and you come away wanting to listen to that album mentioned, assuming that you have that album in the first place.
It does what it says on the front cover. Fifty short essays by various writers and authors, plus a few musicians, on albums that have changed their lives or meant something special to them.
In just over two hundred pages you get the reasons why these albums mean so much to the writers and each is fascinating and insightful.
It's a book that can be dipped into any of the essays and you come away wanting to listen to that album mentioned, assuming that you have that album in the first place.
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