Backbeat Books

  • Stevie Ray Vaughan: Day by Day, Night by Night

    Stevie Ray Vaughan: Day by Day, Night by Night

    A coffee table book, detailing SRV’s early career with pictures, reminiscences, posters and original lyrics sheets overwhelms Carl F Gauze but is probably perfect for the obsessive fan.

  • Relix: The Book

    Relix: The Book

    Relive the decade no one claims to remember through this retrospective of Relix, a magazine that revolved around the Grateful Dead.

  • By The Time We Got To Woodstock

    By The Time We Got To Woodstock

    Veteran Rock and Roll Journalist Bruce Pollack rehashes all the significant songs and stories that led to the 1969 Woodstock Festival. Carl F Gauze is not impressed.

  • Woodstock Vision

    Woodstock Vision

    This expanded edition of Elliot Landy’s rock photography collection Woodstock Vision has Matthew Moyer thinking of heading up north to chop firewood with Garth Hudson.

  • Sonic Boom

    Sonic Boom

    In author Pete Blecha’s new examination of the gnarled roots of Seattle rock music, he posits that it all started with the slurred words “Louie Louie.” Scott Adams obviously approves.

  • Jimmy Page: Magus, Musician, Man

    Jimmy Page: Magus, Musician, Man

    Shelton Hull suspects Jimmy Page is pleased with this unabashedly unauthorized biography.

  • The Daily Adventures of Mixerman

    The Daily Adventures of Mixerman

    Nowhere does the line between Fantasy, Reality and Comedy blur more than in the music industry. Carl Gauze reports on the pseudonymous Mixerman’s journal of one album gone quite wrong. Or quite right, for the reader at home.

  • I Hate New Music

    I Hate New Music

    Did rock ‘n’ roll begin and end with classic rock? Has there been a single landmark rock album since 1978? Eric J. Iannelli went looking for answers in I Hate New Music, Dave Thompson’s blustery “classic rock manifesto,” but all he found was a man with questionable beliefs shouting at him.

  • Children of the Blues

    The blues had a baby, and Art Tipaldi wrote a book about it. James Mann looks at the Children of the Blues.

  • Make Music Now!

    Ever wondered where MP3’s come from, or how to get your music online? Mitch Gallagher reveals all in Make Music Now! James Mann plugs in.

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