Description
"Fascinating, informative, extraordinary, and essential reading for the legions of Jim Morrison fans."--Midwest Book Review
Shrouded in mystery and the swirling psychedelic sounds of the Sixties, the Doors have captivated listeners across seven decades. Jim Morrison--haunted, beautiful, and ultimately doomed--transformed from rock god to American icon. With each successive generation of fans, the Doors become more popular and transcendent. Yet the band's full significance is buried beneath layers of mythology and folklore.
In Roadhouse Blues, Bob Batchelor presents an epic tale of one of rock's (and America's) most significant periods, as the Age of Aquarius gave way to a new age of mayhem, presidential misdeeds, and murder. Batchelor combines cultural history, musical and lyrical analysis, and a broad stroke of pop-culture mythos to give fresh perspective on a pivotal time.Candid, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Roadhouse Blues is a biography of a man, a band, and an era that set the tone for the contemporary world. Beyond the mythology, the hype, and the mystique around Morrison's untimely death, this book takes readers on a roller-coaster ride, examining the impact the band had on America as the nation veered from decadence to debauchery."We're gonna have a real good time!"
Product Details
| Publisher | Hamilcar Publications |
| Publish Date | November 08, 2022 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781949590548 |
| Dimensions | 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.5 inches | 0.1 pounds |
About the Author
award-winning cultural historian and author of Stan Lee: A Life, The Bourbon
King, and a dozen other books exploring history and biography. He has
written about many iconic musicians and eras, including Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash,
Grunge, and jazz. Batchelor's books have been translated into a dozen languages,
while his work has appeared or been featured in the New York Times, Cincinnati
Enquirer, Los Angeles Times, Today.com,
The Guardian, and Time. He is a frequent on-air expert.
Batchelor earned a doctorate in Literature at the University of South Florida
and lives in North Carolina with his wife Suzette and their two daughters.
Carlos Acevedo is the author of The Duke: The Life and Lies of Tommy Morrison and Sporting Blood: Tales from the Dark Side of Boxing, both published by Hamilcar Publications. His work has appeared in Boxing News, Hannibal Boxing, The Ring, Inside HBO Boxing, and Boxing Digest. His stories "A Darkness Made to Order," "A Ghost Orbiting Forever," and "The Duke of the West Side" all won first-place awards from the Boxing Writers Association of America. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Reviews
"Bob Batchelor writes with great eloquence and insight about the Doors, the greatest hard-rock band we have ever had, and through this book, we plunge deeply into the mystery that surrounds Jim Morrison. It is Batchelor's warmth and compassion that ignites Roadhouse Blues and helps explain Morrison's own miraculous dark fire."-Jerome Charyn, PEN/Faulkner Award finalist
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