Ali
Won't Back Down
An overview of heartland rock in the 80s with particular focus on 4 figures: Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Bob Seger and John Mellencamp, “Won’t Back Down” was a book absolutely geared for me.
I enjoyed the chapters corresponding to each year of the decade. Too many music books try to clump together concepts and you get completely lost chronologically. There are tangents but they make sense when discussing albums and songs of that respective year. Kudos to the author for including many female musicians in her narrative.
That said, it was hard to overlook a bevy of glaring errors that should’ve been caught long before ARC stage. (If you’re gonna mention The Pretenders’ classic “My City Was Gone”, you gotta get the title right). Also sections about Bonnie Raitt were repeated.
Thank you to NetGalley and W.W. Norton and Company for the opportunity to read and review.
An overview of heartland rock in the 80s with particular focus on 4 figures: Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Bob Seger and John Mellencamp, “Won’t Back Down” was a book absolutely geared for me.
I enjoyed the chapters corresponding to each year of the decade. Too many music books try to clump together concepts and you get completely lost chronologically. There are tangents but they make sense when discussing albums and songs of that respective year. Kudos to the author for including many female musicians in her narrative.
That said, it was hard to overlook a bevy of glaring errors that should’ve been caught long before ARC stage. (If you’re gonna mention The Pretenders’ classic “My City Was Gone”, you gotta get the title right). Also sections about Bonnie Raitt were repeated.
Thank you to NetGalley and W.W. Norton and Company for the opportunity to read and review.