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Tastykakes, Soul Songs & Shining Stars: Affections and Reflections 1973-2025

Tastykakes, Soul Songs & Shining Stars: Affections and Reflections 1973-2025

McEwen, Joe

Paperback

Letters & EssaysBlues & SoulGeneral Music

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN13: 9798988670124
Publisher: ZE Books
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Fifty years of soul, rhythm and blues, and the record business from Joe McEwen--the Philadelphia critic who profiled the Staple Singers, George Clinton and Michael Jackson in the 1970s, then spent four decades as an A&R man signing Elvis Costello, Wilco, Nick Lowe and Queen Latifah.

Joe McEwen grew up in Philadelphia and the near suburbs with two escape valves, a basketball and a radio, and a household he writes about here in a series of childhood vignettes--family dramas, teenage disquietude, and the soul, R&B, blues and jazz coming out of the speaker. He started writing about the music in and around his college years in Boston, for the Boston Phoenix and the Real Paper, and graduated to the Village Voice and Rolling Stone. He was still in his twenties when he contributed five chapters to the original Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll, wrote for Greil Marcus's Stranded, and published Sam Cooke: The Man Who Invented Soul.

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