This book is a fun and informative historical survey of songs that
lionize notorious brigands from Ireland to Brazil Italy to
Australia to the drug lords of Mexico and the inner-city gangs of
the United States. For centuries each of these cultures have
continued to romanticize criminals raising them to the status of
heroic figures through poetry stories song and more recently film.
EA Friend of the DevilE tracks the true story of these legendary
bandits behind the songs that deify them while looking at society's
role in both creating outlaws and our perpetual need for a new
hero. The book also delves into why socially minded truth-seeking
artists including Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan wrote and sang songs
about such cold-blooded killers as Pretty Boy Floyd and Joey Gallo
purposefully perpetuating their myths in lieu of an honest
portrayal of these bad men.THEA Friend of the DevilE features new
interviews with dozens of contemporary songwriters including Steve
Earle Richard Thompson Taj Mahal and Dr. John along with authors
Michael Ondaatje and Ishmael Reed. Illustrated with a series of
photographs by the author of songwriters and singers of outlaw
ballads that include Pete Seeger Joan Baez Aaron Neville John Prine
and Gordon Gano of Violent Femmes.
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