Whiskey bottles and brand-new cars the fast life and sudden death of Lynyrd Skynyrd / Mark Ribowsky.
| Author/creator | Ribowsky, Mark |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2015] |
| Description | xxi, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Lords and masters -- A different light -- Need all my friends -- "They sound too much like the Allman Brothers" -- Down south jukin' -- Enter Roosevelt gook -- "Chicken-skin music in the raw" -- We all did what we could do -- You don't get nothin' -- Torture tour -- "We done things only fools'd do" -- 100 proof blues -- Soundman god -- Better get outta my way -- T-R-O-U-B-L-E -- Look what's going on inside you -- Striking fire and drawing blood -- "Plane crash!". |
| Abstract | Based on interviews with surviving band members,Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars shares how lead singer and front man Ronnie Van Zant guided the band's hugely successful five-year run and, in the process, created not only a new country rock idiom, but a new Confederacy in constant conflict with old Southern totems and prejudices. Placing the music and personae of Skynyrd into a broad cultural context, this book gives a new perspective to a history of stage fights, motel-room destructions, cunning business deals, and brilliant studio productions. |
| General note | "An A Capella book". |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014037743 |
| ISBN | 9781569761465 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 1569761469 (hbk.) |