Backmasking / Harold Whit Williams.

Author/creator Williams, Harold Whit
Format Electronic
EditionFirst Edition.
Publication InfoHuntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, 2014.
Description37 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Rock music--Religious aspects. --Poetry.
Muscle Shoals (Ala.)--Poetry.

Uniform titlePoems. Selections
Contents Side 4 -- Call to prayer -- Tracking the new record -- Still life with graveyard and deer -- Liam Gallagher, uninterpreted, backstage -- Road show in Outer Banks -- New Year's Eve Christian rock show -- Fame studio session -- Performing "When a man loves a woman" with Percy Sledge's son, Flip -- Last day in the ICU -- To someone else's God -- Villanelle for bloodbait -- Side 3 -- My first rally -- Playing along with "Are you experienced", backwards guitar solo -- Three Dog Night keyboardist gives anti-drug speech at Deshler High School -- Backmasking presentation, United Methodist Church youth group -- Still life with Methodist youth retreat and tropical depression -- First electric guitar, Sears & Roebuck special -- A Valdosta family tragedy -- Discovering an issue of Playboy in Tom's attic -- Tent revival on Hawk Pride Mountain -- To Dean Young's new heart, which I can hear beating on the eastside -- Pantoum from Wilson Pickett interview -- Side 2 -- April in Paris -- A Valdosta pastoral -- A Valdosta girlfriend -- Purchasing a first album, Charlie Daniels Band, Saddle Tramp, Pegasus Records -- Oldtime fiddler's convention -- Christmas morning, Mama Tidwell's -- Watching a Saturday matinee with Daddy and Granddaddy, John Wayne in Big Jake -- Ottis Williams on WJBB radio -- Billy Sherrill borrows Granddaddy's Martin acoustic -- Crazed man changes weather -- A few lines composed on lunch break concerning Charles Mingus, circa 1959 -- Side 1 -- Do this in remembrance of me -- Are you washed in the blood? -- The Happy Hitters sing songs of praise at the Pisgah Baptist Church -- Charlie Tidwell on Gobbler's Knob, tossing rocks at passing automobiles on Highway 43 -- Young Betty Evelyn Tidwell with the Hess Family Quartet -- Old Union Baptist Church -- Private Whit Williams surrendering with Lee -- Mapmaking: the early years -- A medium-sized theology -- Time travel, a how-to -- Rabbit tobacco.
Abstract "The poems of Backmasking uncover secret messages of rock and roll in relation to religion, mostly in a loose sonnet form reminiscent of David Wojahn's classic, Mystery Train. Set mainly in the Muscle Shoals area of Alabama, these narrative poems, spun in reverse, detail a young man's ascent into the glittery world of guitar heroes, all the while singing out the day-to-day absurdities of the sacred and the profane."-- Provided by publisher.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014013049
ISBN9781937875763 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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