Pitchfork’s Amanda Petrusich Surveys Americana Music In New Book
Posted in Americana, Books, Country Music on August 21st, 2008
Amanda Petrusich has interviewed Liz Phair and Feist for Pitchfork.tv, not she turnes her talents to documenting the vast and rugged territory that is Americana.
From Pitchfork.com: “It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music. (Her first book was last year’s entry on Nick Drake’s Pink Moon in the 33 1/3 series.) Part memoir and travelogue, part sociological study and piece of criticism, It Still Moves features stories and interviews that explore the history and current state of Americana, “from Elvis to Iron and Wine, the Carter Family to Animal Collective, Johnny Cash to Will Oldham,” according to a press release.”
She’s taken on quite a task here but I look forward to reading “It Still Moves.”
A few events celebrating It Still Moves’ publication are scheduled throughout the coming months.
It Still Moves events:
09-11 Brooklyn, NY - Book Court
09-18 Brooklyn, NY - WORD
09-19 Nashville, TN - Americana Music Association Festival
09-23 New York, NY - KGB Bar
10-09 Oxford, MS - Thacker Mountain Radio
10-10 Nashville, TN - Southern Festival of Books
11-01 Austin, TX - Texas Book Festival
