{"title":"33 1\/3 BOOKS","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"256\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eThe 33 1\/3 book series is a long-running collection of short paperback books, each dedicated to a single, influential music album. Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, the series takes its name from the speed (33⅓ revolutions per minute) of a vinyl LP record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-end=\"275\" data-start=\"258\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli data-end=\"275\" data-start=\"258\"\u003eEach book focuses on one album, exploring its creation, impact, cultural context, and legacy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-end=\"275\" data-start=\"258\"\u003eAuthors vary widely: music journalists, musicians, scholars, and fans.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-end=\"275\" data-start=\"258\"\u003eEach book style differs: some books are deeply researched histories, others are memoirs, or critical essays.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-end=\"1321\" data-start=\"1304\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho It's For:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1351\" data-start=\"1322\"\u003eThe 33⅓ series is beloved by music lovers, critics, and fans who want deeper dives on the classic albums.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"john-prine","title":"JOHN PRINE - JOHN PRINE - 33 1\/3 BOOK","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1501379232\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"xj73np-42at6j-wrgfzy-c5jsme\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe is known as the Mark Twain of American songwriting, a man who transformed the everyday happenings of regular people into plainly profound statements on war, industrialization, religion, and the human condition. Marking the 50th anniversary of the album's release, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJohn Prine\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003echronicles the legendary singer-songwriter's Middle American provenance, and his remarkable ascent from singing mailman to celebrated son of Chicago.“Illegal Smile,” “Hello in There,” “Sam Stone,” “Paradise,” “Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore,” “Far from Me,” “Donald and Lydia,” and “Angel from Montgomery” are considered standards in the American Songbook, covered by legions of Prine's peers and admirers. Through original interviews, exhaustive research, and incisive commentary, author Erin Osmon paints an in-depth portrait of the people, places, and experiences that inspired Prine's landmark debut.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter exploring his roots in rural Western Kentucky and suburban Maywood, Illinois, the book takes readers on an evocative journey through John Prine's Chicago. Its neighborhoods, characters, and clubs of the 1960s and 70s proved a formative and magical period in Prine's life, before he was a figurehead of the new Nashville scene. 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Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In \"Like a Rolling Stone,\" his gleeful excoriation of Miss Lonely (Edie Sedgwick? Joan Baez? a composite \"type\"?) fuses with the evocation of a hip new zeitgeist to produce a veritable anthem. In \"Ballad of a Thin Man,\" the younger generation's confusion is thrown back in the Establishment's face, even as Dylan vents his disgust with the critics who labored to catalogue him. And in \"Desolation Row,\" he reaches the zenith of his own brand of surrealist paranoia, that here attains the atmospheric intensity of a full-fledged nightmare. Between its many flourishes of gallows humor, this is one of the most immaculately frightful songs ever recorded, with its relentless imagery of communal executions, its parade of fallen giants and triumphant local losers, its epic length and even the mournful sweetness of Bloomfield's flamenco-inspired fills. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Mark Polizzotti examines just what makes the songs on \u003cem\u003eHighway 61 Revisited\u003c\/em\u003e so affecting, how they work together as a suite, and how lyrics, melody, and arrangements combine to create an unusually potent mix. He blends musical and literary analysis of the songs themselves, biography (where appropriate) and recording information (where helpful). And he focuses on Dylan's mythic presence in the mid-60s, when he emerged from his proletarian incarnation to become the American Rimbaud. The comparison has been made by others, including Dylan, and it illuminates much about his mid-sixties career, for in many respects \u003cem\u003eHighway 61\u003c\/em\u003e is rock 'n' roll's answer to A Season in Hell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by MARK POLIZZOTTI\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ROCK \u0026 ROLL HALL OF FAME BOOKSTORE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42070537339049,"sku":"BLOOM-7756-00-00-2022-R","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0515\/5982\/5577\/files\/BOB_DYLAN_HIGHWAY_61_REVISITED_33_1_3_BOOK.jpg?v=1762440271"},{"product_id":"a-tribe-called-quests-peoples-instinctive-travels-and-the-paths-of-rhythm-by-shawn-taylor-33-1-3-collection-book","title":"A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - PEOPLE'S INSTINCTIVE TRAVELS AND THE PATHS OF RHYTHM - 33 1\/3 BOOK","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest's debut record (featuring stone-cold classics like \"Can I Kick It?\" and \"Bonita Applebum\") took the idea of the boasting hip-hop male and turned it on its head. 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Propelled by the new decade's high-tech, free-market, pre-AIDS promise, 1980's \u003cem\u003eFreedom of Choice\u003c\/em\u003e would rocket what Devo co-founder Gerald Casale calls his \"alternate universe, hermetically sealed, alien band\" both into the arms of the Earthlings and back to their home planet in one scenic trip.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore an artistic and commercial decline that resulted in a 20-year gap between Devo's last two studio records, \u003cem\u003eFreedom of Choice\u003c\/em\u003e made them curious, insurgent superstars, vindicated but ultimately betrayed by the birth of MTV. Their only platinum album represented the best of their unreplicable code: dead-serious tricksters, embracing conformity in order to destroy it with bullet-proof pop sensibility. 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Metallica, Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Garth Brooks, MC Hammer, and U2 - all were competing for the attention of the record-buying public at the same time. But perhaps the most attention-seeking act of all was Guns N Roses. Their albums \u003cem\u003eUse Your Illusion 1 and 2\u003c\/em\u003e, released on the same day, were both 75-minute sprawlers with practically the same cover design - an act of colossal arrogance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn one level, it worked. The albums claimed the top two chart positions, and ultimately sold 7 million copies each in the US alone. On another level, it was a disaster. This was an album that Axl Rose has been unable to follow up in fifteen years. 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The record was a smash, reaching number two on the charts in March of 1974, spawning three hit singles; Help Me, Free Man in Paris\u003cbr\u003eand Raised on Robbery and cementing Mitchell's position as a commercial as well as an artistic force. 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