California Slim - by Andrew J Bernstein (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>There are literary reminiscences that reek of self-congratulation over the authors'<br />proximity to famous movers and shakers. Andy Bernstein's California Slim aspires<br />to far more than that-and achieves it. Andy was there, at the onse...<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>There are literary reminiscences that reek of self-congratulation over the authors'<br />proximity to famous movers and shakers. Andy Bernstein's California Slim aspires<br />to far more than that-and achieves it. Andy was there, at the onset of the post-'50s<br />revolution that, as a beat poet once put it, roared as it ripped the threadbare fabric<br />of an age. Andy was no distant, casual observer during the tumultuous '60s and<br />'70s; he was at the heart of the maelstrom, and writes about it with candor, humor, <br />and originality.<br /><br />The story begins, for God's sake, with Andy and his then unknown banjo teacher, <br />a young Jerry Garcia, fingerpicking in a back room at Dana Morgan's Music Studio<br />in Palo Alto in 1962. A skinny six-foot-seven-inch Jewish kid (later known as "California<br />Slim"), Andy divided his time between the usual adolescent interests and<br />music, for which he would go on to provide a capital M by promoting and staging<br />concerts throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. His Palo Alto nightclub, Homer's<br />Warehouse, across the street from the Stanford University campus, brought revolutionary<br />musicians (among them, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) to young<br />sensibilities hungry for new driving rhythms and thought-provoking lyrics.<br /><br />The early chapters of this book set the stage for Andy's eventual hooking-up with<br />Willie Nelson and his Family-which felt, Andy said, "like reading a really good<br />book that I couldn't put down." That feeling led directly, if gradually, to California<br />Slim. And you, dear reader, won't be able to put it down, either.<br /><br />-Tony Compagno...
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