{"title":"Joe Boyd","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"white-bicycles-making-music-in-the-1960s","title":"White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Joe Boyd.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than any previous '60s music autobiography, Joe Boyd's \u003ci\u003eWhite Bicycles\u003c\/i\u003e offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. His greatest coup is bringing to life the famously elusive figure of Nick Drake - the first time he's been written about by anyone who knew him well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs well as the '60s heavy-hitters, this book also offers wonderfully vivid portraits of a whole host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, The Incredible String Band to Fairport Convention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"serpent's tail","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50489177080139,"sku":"1014951","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/57597c8e-04c0-490a-b586-8743aaec8474_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727638576"},{"product_id":"and-the-roots-of-rhythm-remain-a-journey-through-global-music","title":"And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eoe Boyd was part of a small group of label heads and journalists who chose 'world music' as their marketing slogan in the 1980s. They had little idea how fast and how wide those simple words would spread, the controversy it would cause, and only the vaguest idea of how far back the history went.Following the international success of his memoir White Bicycles, Boyd set out to explore the stories behind the music he had helped to populariee. His experiences as a producer working in Cuba, Brazil, Bulgaria, Mali, Hungary, Spain and India had given him the skeleton of an idea, though the subject is far broader. Over the past decade he has interviewed musicians, producers and academics, travelled the globe and spent years reading, listening and writing.The resulting book, And the Roots of the Rhythm Remain, is like no other. It shows how personalities, events and politics in Havana, Lagos, Buenos Aires, Soweto, Rio and Seville are as colourful and fascinating as anything that took place in Storyville, Harlem, Laurel Canyon or Liverpool. And, moreover, how jazz, r\u0026amp;b and rock 'n' roll would never have happened if it wasn't for sounds emanating from over the horizon and below the equator.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50532467802443,"sku":"2171575","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53072826892619,"sku":"R7140-2472","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Screenshot_2023-12-18_at_10.18.43_ce2c610d_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1728122393"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/joe-boyd.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}