
Guitar
An American Life
No se pudo agregar al carrito
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
3 meses gratis
Compra ahora por $19.74
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrado por:
-
Tim Brookes
-
De:
-
Tim Brookes
Shortly before Tim Brookes' 50th birthday, baggage handlers destroyed his guitar, his 22-year-old traveling companion. His wife promised to replace it with the guitar of his dreams, but Tim discovered that a dream guitar is built, not bought. He set out to find someone to make him the perfect guitar, a quest that ended up a on a dirt road in the Green Mountains of Vermont, where an amiable curmudgeon master guitarmaker, Rick Davis, took a rare piece of cherry wood and went to work with saws and rasps.
Meanwhile, Tim set out to write a kind of chronicle of the guitar, as he said, "not a catalog of makes and models, nor a genealogy of celebrities, but an attempt to understand this curious relationship between the instrument and the people involved with it, and how that has grown and changed over time".
He discovered that the instrument, first arriving with conquistadors and the colonists, ended up in the hands of a variety of people: miners and society ladies, lumberjacks and presidents' wives, Hawaiians, African-Americans, Cajuns, jazz players, spiritualists, singing cowboys of the silver screen, and bluegrass and Beatles fans. Inventors and crackpots tinkered with it. In time, it became America's instrument, its soundtrack.
When Tim wasn't breathing over Rick's shoulder, he was trying to unravel the symbolic associations a guitar holds for so many of us, musicians and non-musicians alike. His journey takes him across the country talking to historians, curators, and guitarmakers.
©2005 Tim Brookes (P)2005 Blackstone AudiobooksListeners also enjoyed...




















This audio deserves a second listen!
Held my interest
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
very poetic
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Any additional comments?
This book is a lovely combination of music history, a wry look at American culture, and the story of how a master craftsman builds a fine instrument. It's all told with a clever narrative structure and a British sense of humor.Want to know how a Conederate warship's sinking of a whaling ship near Hawaii led to the rise of blues guitar? This is the place. Want to know the difference between the finish on your guitar and a Stradavarius violin, and why one has cat pee in it? Read this book.
The author reads this book like he's sitting in your living room telling the story over a few beers. I want to meet him and see his new guitar.
I liked this so much I'm going to listen to it again.
A masterpiece!
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Highly enjoyable
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
A Worthy Read
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Highly recommended
Tremendous
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
I agree with another reviewer that the book would have benefited greatly from music clips to bring to life the author's descriptions. I quickly grew tired of the blues riff that marks the start of each chapter and would have liked to hear a different riff each time (or a better one repetitively). I could have done without all the f-bombs in the second half. Most of them are quotes when discussing the punk era, but they don't add anything to the narrative.
Overall, an excellent listen. It's great in 30-minute chunks, which is how I ended up listening during a daily walk.
Almost excellent
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
The Story of the Guitar
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Amazing from Start to Finish
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Great Listen.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.