Everybody's heard about the bird : the true story of 1960s rock 'n' roll in Minnesota /
Gives a vivid behind-the-scenes, up-close-and-personal account of how a handful of Minnesota rock bands erupted out of a small Midwest market and made it big.
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015] |
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Summary: | Gives a vivid behind-the-scenes, up-close-and-personal account of how a handful of Minnesota rock bands erupted out of a small Midwest market and made it big. If you didn't experience rock and roll in Minnesota in the 1960s, this book will make you wish you had. This behind-the-scenes, up-close-and-personal account relates how a handful of Minnesota rock bands erupted out of a small Midwest market and made it big. It was a brief, heady moment for the musicians who found themselves on a national stage, enjoying a level of success most bands only dream of. In Everybody's Heard about the Bird , Rick Shefchik writes of that time in vivid detail. Interviews with many of the key musicians, combined with extensive research and a phenomenal cache of rare photographs, reveal how this monumental era of Minnesota rock music evolved. The chronicle begins with musicians from the 1950s and early 1960s, including Augie Garcia, Bobby Vee, the Fendermen, and Mike Waggoner and the Bops. Shefchik looks at how a local recording studio and record label, along with Minnesota radio stations, helped make their achievements possible and prepared the way for later bands to break out nationally. For the baby boomers who remember it and everyone else who has felt its influence, the 1960s rock-and-roll scene in Minnesota was an extraordinary period both in musical history and popular culture, and now it's captured fully in print for the first time. Everybody's Heard about the Bird celebrates how these bands found their singular sound and played for their elated audiences from the golden era to today. |
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Item Description: | Includes index. Print version record. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) : illustrations |
ISBN: | 9781452949734 1452949735 |
Author Notes: | Rick Shefchik spent almost thirty years in daily journalism, mostly as a critic, reporter, and columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press . He is the author of From Fields to Fairways: Classic Golf Clubs of Minnesota (Minnesota, 2012). He's a novelist and author of three works of nonfiction and has been in several working bands as a guitarist and singer. |