Making Tracks in the Lakes
Author : Joanne Wright
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 1999-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780951943779
Author : Joanne Wright
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 1999-10-01
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ISBN : 9780951943779
Author : Peter Saxton
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1782433325
Full of facts, trivia and anecdotes, this engaging compendium looks at the heyday of the railways around the world.
Author : Scott Billington
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496839161
From the 1980s through the early 2000s, a golden era for southern roots music, producer and three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington recorded many of the period’s most iconic artists. Working primarily in Louisiana for Boston-based Rounder Records, Billington produced such giants as Irma Thomas, Charlie Rich, Buckwheat Zydeco, Johnny Adams, Bobby Rush, Ruth Brown, Beau Jocque, and Solomon Burke. The loving and sometimes irreverent profiles in Making Tracks reveal the triumphs and frustrations of the recording process, and that obsessive quest to capture a transcendent performance. Billington's long working relationships with the artists give him perspective to present them in their complexity—foibles, failures, and fabled feats—while providing a vivid look at the environs in which their music thrived. He tells about Boozoo Chavis’s early days as a musician, jockey, and bartender at his mother’s quarter horse track, and Ruth Brown’s reign as the most popular star in rhythm and blues, when the challenge of traveling on the “chitlin’ circuit” proved the antithesis of the glamour she exuded on stage. In addition, Making Tracks provides a widely accessible study in the craft of recording. Details about the technology and psychology behind the sessions abound. Billington demonstrates varying ways of achieving the mutual goal of a great record. He also introduces the supporting cast of songwriters, musicians, and engineers crucial to the magic in each recording session. Making Tracks sings unforgettably like a "from the vault" discovery.
Author : Terry Pindell
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Railroad travel
ISBN : 9780802112798
The author relates his journey across America aboard passenger trains, recalls the tales of noted figures in the history of American railroading, and highlights adventures and passengers he met along the way
Author : Sheldon McCormick
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 166984143X
A cruel past, bourne of frustration, racism, abuse, womanizing, violence and hearbreaks, torments former high school and college champion sprinter, distance runner and fencing great Gilbert “Make Tracks” Courtney. He especially grieves the abortion of his unborn son by an embittered, vengeful ex-fiancee with a long grudge. The troubled Make Tracks channels his swirling, unbridled rage and emotions over her evil act into helping an inner-city community youth athletic center. Through his self-unaware charisma and leadership drawn from his past athletic successes, as a law student in college and a few tough years in a big city law firm, Make Tracks inspires his pupils with much-needed bravery, fortitude, confidence, self-worth and hope amid a rash of armed robberies and drive-by shootings in early 1990s South-Central Los Angeles.
Author : Conor Mihell
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 2012-06-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1459702468
Mihell offers a compelling image of Lake Superior's Canadian shore through colorful personality sketches, adventure stories, and environmental accounts. Mihell's stories build on Lake Superior's rich and varied history and support its critical place in Canadian culture.
Author : Joanne Wright
Publisher :
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Peak District (England)
ISBN : 9780951943748
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Minnesota
ISBN :
Author : James Freeman
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1662440456
This book is the result of our love for music, for our families, our musical colleagues, and even our dogs. The story is by no means chronological, though after a "Prelude," it does follow very loosely accounts of our youth, our education, our musical experiences, and adventures. Those experiences have included playing with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Boston Pops, Peter Nero's Philly Pops, our concerts in Moscow (in the midst of a revolution), St. Petersburg, Carnegie Hall, the Salzburg Festival, Havana, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, Slovenia, Denmark, Norway, Italy, England, Germany, Peru, and the Library of Congress. It is also a history of Orchestra 2001, the Swarthmore College- and Philadelphia-based contemporary music ensemble I founded and directed from 1988 to 2015. It includes in the appendices a complete list of O2001's concerts, repertoire, and recordings, as well as highlights and critical commentary about many of those performances and CDs.
Author : Dan Egan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393246442
New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.