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From my perspective, 2023 has been another great year for books about music. It wasn\u2019t easy limiting my selections of the year\u2019s favorites to just four, but these titles all deserve recognition.<\/p>\nFrom my perspective, 2023 has been another great year for books about music. It wasn\u2019t easy limiting my selections of the year\u2019s favorites to just four, but these titles all deserve recognition.<\/p>\n
Various \u2013 <\/b>The White Label Promo Preservation Society Vol. 2<\/b><\/i> Harold Bronson \u2013 <\/b>Time Has Come Today<\/b><\/i> Edoardo Genzolini \u2013 Cream: Clapton, Bruce & Baker Sitting On Top of the World<\/i><\/b> David Menconi \u2013 Oh, Didn’t They Ramble<\/i> <\/b> From my perspective, 2023 has been another great year for books about music. It wasn\u2019t easy limiting my selections of the year\u2019s favorites to just four, but these titles all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-of-list","category-book","category-review","cat-8-id","cat-10-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26522,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26519\/revisions\/26522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAn even deeper dive than the first volume, this one is stuffed with compelling writing that will lead you in search of these albums you might not have heard. Full review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nAs both music journalist and record company executive, Bronson has had a close-up perspective on popular music. He\u2019s a good storyteller, too, as this diary-like memoir makes plain. Full review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nGenzolini is a master at this kind of book: drawing from the experiences of them-who-was-there, he presents images and words that will make the modern-day reader feel as if they are there, in Cream\u2019s late sixties heyday. Full review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nRounder Records occupies an important place in the pantheon of modern-day music (especially of the Americana sort). And North Carolina treasure David Menconi is the man to tell the story of the label. Full review here<\/a>, and video of my conversation with Menconi here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"