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Her biography, like her life, is a work of art." So says singer/songwriter Janis Ian about Christine Lavin and her book Cold Pizza for Breakfast: A Mem-wha? In this book, and now audiobook, Lavin recounts her circuitous, often hilarious route to becoming one of contemporary folk music's most respected and beloved songwriters and performers. From Lincoln Center and other New York hot spots to theaters, music halls, and coffeehouses across North America and beyond, life on the road has defined Lavin's life and music. If she lacked a master plan, she had the heart and chutzpah to keep moving and noting carefully what she saw of human nature along the way. It paid off. Her laser-sharp wit and perceptive irony produced a body of song, and now a book, that captures her life and touches our own (foibles included). Christine's 14-hour audiobook also includes a foreword written and read by actor and singer-songwriter Jeff Daniels; two brand-new verses of the classic song "It Was a Very Good Year," sung by its author, Ervin Drake; and a cappella bookmarks performed by The Accidentals. As Christine reads her lively tales, she occasionally picks up her guitar and sings to illustrate a point. Join her on this memorable and fun-filled journey and learn some of the most beloved talents in music, stage and screen. As Dirty Linen magazine puts it: "Christine Lavin is a storyteller par excellence. She can take the most trivial encounter and spin it into gold, exposing the heart of the matter with humor and grace." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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She wrote a heck of a lot of funny bright insightful songs, and sang them with a cheerful and perky and very New York-y way.
So Cold Pizza For Breakfast is her sort of memoir (she calls it a mem-wha?) and it's fun interesting reading
But for every funny little song like "Cold Pizza" there were a handful of beautiful "character" songs like "Getting Used to Leaving" and "The Kind of Love you Never Recover From", which have found their way into performances by cabaret and Jazz artists and other folkies too.
She was around in the 1970's and was up to her pretty ears in the Fast Folk revival, and twirls a mean baton too.
She then turned around and became the Godmother of new folk music and used her contacts and her reputation to see that lot of new folk music got recorded and a lot of new artists got heard.
She knows how to tell a good story and she knows a lot of interesting people in and out of folk music.
The lady has a lot of depth.
So if this is not the autobigraphy of Christine I was hoping for, it's still a lively read and an enjoyable one.
I like cold Pizza for breakfast
In a pinch cold spaghetti will do
Well there's nothing in this world that I like better
than eating cold pizza with you
Right back at you Chris ( )