Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators and Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock [With CD]
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Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators and Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock [With CD]

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This book explores the evolution of 19 intriguing artists bred by the unique 1960s music scene, and traces the musical and cultural threads that gave birth to their electrifying innovations. From folk-rockers to blue- and brown-eyed soulsters to rock satirists and beyond, acclaimed rock author Unterberger uncovers the lives and music of the key visionaries in a mesmerizing...more
Paperback, 296 pages
Published October 30th 2000 by Backbeat Books
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Cooper Renner
Ten to fifteen page essays on nineteen somewhat underappreciated 60s artists. Arthur Brown, the Electric Prunes, Tim Buckley, etc.
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Sort of Unknown Legends Part II, again for fans of psych, garage and obscure folk. CD included.
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For lovers of weird and, uh, unique music. This goes along nicely with "Songs In The Key of Z". Check out some musicians who think outside the box...waaaay outside.
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Richie Unterberger's book "The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film" details the incredible wealth of music the Beatles recorded that they did not release, as well as musical footage of the group that hasn't been made commercially available. His other books include "Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll," the two-volume 1960s folk-rock history "Turn! Turn! Turn!"/"Eight M...more
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