02787nam 2200541Ia 450 991078970650332120230725032430.01-4529-3321-90-8166-7874-X(CKB)2670000000131335(EBL)819524(OCoLC)768082772(SSID)ssj0000551007(PQKBManifestationID)11348277(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551007(PQKBWorkID)10509663(PQKB)10692834(MdBmJHUP)muse29957(Au-PeEL)EBL819524(CaPaEBR)ebr10516117(CaONFJC)MIL525798(MiAaPQ)EBC819524(EXLCZ)99267000000013133520110721d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBlue guitar highway[electronic resource] /Paul Metsa ; foreword by David CarrMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20111 online resource (305 p.)Includes discography.0-8166-7642-9 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.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 captureSingersMinnesotaBiographySingers782.42164092BMetsa Paul1470868MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789706503321Blue guitar highway3682941UNINA