Bar Yarns and Manic Depressive Mix Tapes distills thirty delirious,
jam-packed years of some of the best music writing ever to come out
of the Twin Cities. As a writer and musician, the ever-curious Jim
Walsh has lived a life immersed in music, and it all makes its way
into his columns and feature articles, interviews and reviews,
including personal essays on life, love, music, family, death, and,
yes, the manic-depressive highs and lows that come with being an
obsessive music lover and listener. From Minneapolis's own Prince
to such far-flung acts as David Bowie, the Waterboys, Lucinda
Williams, Parliament-Funkadelic, L7, the Rolling Stones, the
Ramones, U2, Hank Williams, Britney Spears, Elvis Presley and
Nirvana, Walsh's work treats us to a chorus of the voices and
sounds that have made the music scene over the past three decades.
The big names are here, from Rosanne Cash to Bruce Springsteen to
Bob Marley and Jackson Browne, but so are those a little shy of
superstardom, like the Tin Star Sisters and Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt,
the Gear Daddies, Semisonic, and The Belfast Cowboys. The book is
also a tour (de force) of the Twin Cities' most celebrated music
venues past and present, from the Prom Ballroom to Paisley Park to
Duffy's. When Walsh isn't celebrating the sheer magic of live music
or dreaming to tunes blasting from the car console, he might be
surveying the scene with the Hamm's Bear at Grumpy's or the Double
Deuce or singing the last night at the Uptown Bar blues. Whether
he's dishing dirt with Yoko Ono or digging the Replacements' roots,
giving an old rocker a spin or offering a mic to the latest
upstart, Jim Walsh reminds us that in the land of a thousand lakes
there are a thousand dances, and the music never dies. Capturing
the pure notes and character of the sound of the Twin Cities and
beyond, with a keen eye for trends and the telling detail, his book
truly is a mix tape of thirty years of unforgettable music.
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