Written by one of rock's most renowned word-slingers, Ralph Gleason
Award winner Charles Shaar Murray, The Hellhound Sample is a
serious contender for the title of the definitive rock'n'roll
novel. Its focus is on the Moon family, an African-American musical
dynasty spanning three generations. At its head sits James "Blue"
Moon, legendary blues guitarist from the Mississippi: his daughter,
Venetia Moon, is a soul diva, and his grandson, Calvin, a
millionaire rapper, producer and mogul. But the Moon clan's
seamless influence on pop culture masks a family riven with
discord. Venetia hasn't spoken to her dad in years, and has fallen
out of love with her music, too, churning out lucrative but vacuous
jingles and adverts. Meanwhile her son, Calvin, is living a
double-life. By day a paragon of hip-hop machismo, his label
specializing in often violent, homophobic and misogynistic
recordings, by night Calvin frequents rent-boys and gay clubs. And
people are starting to talk - a situation that threatens to
endanger both his livelihood and life expectancy. James Blue
himself is having a worse time still, having just been diagnosed
with liver cancer. Blue realizes it's time to put his house in
order, pull together his dispersed family, and make one final
record. Looking to kill both birds with the same stone, he contacts
his daughter and grandson and invites them to record with him,
opening up a can of worms sealed for decades. Enter hapless and
affable British rock legend Mick Hudson, trailing a string of
addictions, divorces and demons as he staggers through his fourth
decade of musical stardom. On top of all this, the troubled
troubadours have to deal with murderous homophobic yardies, teenage
daughters, imposing managers, an increasingly curious media, their
own sizable egos, Robert Johnson (or at least his ghost)... and the
Devil. Or whatever entity it was that slipped Mick and James their
talents, guitars and fortunes, and is now starting, in their dreams
and visions, to get a bit impatient for a certain unspecified
recompense.The Hellhound Sample is a hilarious, reeling
distillation of six decades of musical mythology and history, the
world of rock'n'roll re-imagined, in peerless prose, by a writer
that partied with the Stones, took tea with Miles, and nearly came
to blows with the Clash. Funny, warm and vivid, with a cast of
genuinely unforgettable characters, The Hellhound Sample is The
Corrections of rock.
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