Wounds to Bind (eBook)

A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution

Jerry Burgan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
270 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-8108-8862-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The birth of folk rock comes to life in Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk Rock Revolution, Jerry Burgan’s unforgettable memoir of the pre-psychedelic 1960s. As a naive folksinger from Pomona, California, Burgan would find himself thrust in his teenage years to the forefront of the counterculture and its aftermath. The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, Bo Diddley, Otis Redding, The Righteous Brothers, The Ohio Players, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Herman’s Hermits, Judy Henske, Barry McGuire, and the Kingston Trio all make appearances in this tale told by the cofounder of We Five, the San Francisco electro-folk ensemble that soared to the top of the charts with its recording of the million-selling "You Were On My Mind."

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The dawn of folk rock comes to life in Jerry Burgan's unforgettable memoir of the pre-psychedelic 1960s and the summer that changed everything. As a nave folksinger from Pomona, California, Burgan was thrust to the forefront of the counterculture and its aftermath. The Byrds, the Rolling Stones, the Mamas and Papas, Barry McGuire, Bo Diddley and many others make appearances in this 50th Anniversary reminiscence by the surviving cofounder of WE FIVE, the San Francisco electro-folk ensemble whose million-seller, You Were On My Mind,' entered the world two months before Bob Dylan plugged in an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival. Vying with the Byrds to record the first folk-rock hit, Burgan and his lifelong friend Mike Stewart embarked on a road they thought well paved by the latters older brother, Kingston Trio member John Stewart. Little did they realize that they would join the largest-ever American generation in an ecstatic, sometimes tortured, journey of invention and disillusion. Wounds to Bind bears witness to a lost and hopeful convergence in American historythat missing link between the folk and rock eraswhen Bob Dylan and Sammy Davis Jr. were played on the same radio station in the same hour. A survivor of the human realignments, tragedies and triumphs that followed, Burgan tracks down the demons that drove the genius of We Five cofounder Mike Stewart and sheds light on the 40-year enigma of what became of the band's reclusive lead singer, Beverly Bivens, a forerunner of Grace Slick, Linda Ronstadt, and Stevie Nicks.

Autor

When not performing with We Five, the 1960s folk-rock group that bridged the gulf between Peter, Paul & Mary and The Jefferson Airplane, Jerry Burgan and his wife, Debbie, appear in Folk Songs & Stories, a show built on the Americana that shaped him, blended with anecdotes about how the music of the past evolved into the forms we know today. His first solo CD, Jerry Burgan: Reflections, Songs & Stories, on the Global Recording Artists label, is based on material from his show. Jerry is available for classroom and community appearances and may be contacted through the website www.woundstobind.com. Alan Rifkin is a former contributing editor to Details and L.A. Weekly and has written for The Los Angeles Times, Premiere, The San Francisco Bay Guardian and Black Clock. His short-story collection, Signal Hill (City Lights), was a finalist for the Southern California Booksellers Award in Fiction. He teaches creative writing at California State University, Long Beach.

Inhalt

Foreword by Sylvia TysonAcknowledgmentsPart OneChapter 1: ForeshocksChapter 2: 1965: When Folk Met RockChapter 3: 1956: Kids with GuitarsChapter 4: The First Time EverChapter 5: If You’re Going to San FranciscoChapter 6: ConvergenceChapter 7: When I Woke Up This MorningPart TwoChapter 8: Awe and ShockChapter 9: Trouble Every DayChapter 10: Appalachian ThanksgivingChapter 11: The Lonely CrowdChapter 12: Ad after Ad after AdChapter 13: C’mon People Now Part ThreeChapter 14: The Sorcerer’s ApprenticeChapter 15: Jackpot, NevadaChapter 16: Long Time GoneChapter 17: Wounds Not BoundChapter 18: Funeral for a FriendChapter 19: Folk Songs and StoriesPermissionsAbout the Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.4.2014
• Co-Autor: Alan Rifkin
• Vorwort: Sylvia Tyson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Schlagworte: We Five
• ISBN-10: 0-8108-8862-9 / 0810888629
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-8862-3 / 9780810888623