Blue guitar highway [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Metsa ; foreword by David Carr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816178903321
• Autore: Metsa Paul
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-4529-3321-9; 0-8166-7874-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 782.42164092; B
• Soggetti: Singers - Minnesota
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes discography.
• Nota di contenuto: Guitar fools -- A boy and his guitar -- Buckshot in short pants -- The cry of the muskrat -- Cats under the stars -- Vaseline machine gun -- More Saturday night -- Franklin Avenue -- Electric high heels -- Party to a crime -- Robots on death row -- Living in a house of cards -- Whistling past the graveyard -- Ferris wheels on the farm -- City of angels -- Mississippi farewell -- No money down -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- Ghosts of Woody Guthrie -- Martini gulch -- White boys lost in the blues -- From Russia with love -- Key to the highway -- Sisu -- Texas in the twilight zone -- Slings and arrows -- Barbeque and blues -- Iko-iko -- Slow justice -- Stars over the prairie -- Fireworks on the Fourth of July.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a musician's tale: the story of a boy growing up on the Iron Range, playing his guitar at family gatherings, coming of age in the psychedelic seventies, and honing his craft as a pro in Minneapolis, ground zero of American popular music in the mid-eighties. "There is a drop of blood behind every note I play and every word I write," Paul Metsa says. And it's easy to believe, as he conducts us on a musical journey across time and country, navigating switchbacks, detours, dead ends, and providing us the occasional glimpse of the promised land on the blue guitar highway.His account capture