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245 00 $aTrue love cast out all evil :$bthe songwriting legacy of Roky Erickson /$c[edited by] Brian T. Atkinson ; forewords by Billy Gibbons and Henry Rollins.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aCollege Station :$bTexas A&M University Press,$c[2021]
300 $axx, 240 pages, 36 pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aJohn and Robin Dickson series in Texas music
504 $aIncludes discographies and index.
520 $a""Transcendence came with a price," Brian T. Atkinson writes in his introduction to this collection of reflections by and about pioneer psychedelic rocker Roky Erickson (1947-2019). The singer and songwriter who fronted the 13th Floor Elevators burst onto the Texas music scene in 1966 with the release of "You're Gonna Miss Me," the band's only charting single, which featured Erickson's primal vocal stylings. The band attracted considerable regional attention, including interest from a young Janis Joplin, who considered joining the group before opting to go to San Francisco instead. Through his interviews with those who were there and presentation of Erickson's own words, Atkinson chronicles how Erickson was haunted for most of his life by mental illness, likely compounded by his liberal usage of hallucinogenic and other drugs. Despite that, however, his influence on Texas musicians of various genres is vast. As Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top attests in his foreword, "He stands alone to this day and is revered as an artist because he had the gift of a wonderful voice." As with his previous books on Townes Van Zandt, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Mickey Newbury, Atkinson has recorded hours of interviews with veteran and upcoming musicians who were impacted by Roky Erickson. Along with the insights of long-time music journalists like Joe Nick Patoski and the bittersweet recollections of friends and family members like Mikel Erickson, brother of the singer, this work includes poetry and lyrics written by Erickson during his confinement at Rusk State Hospital in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The picture that emerges is that of a brilliant, troubled mind and an artist whose influence extended far beyond the period of his greatest notoriety, continuing even beyond his death"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aErickson, Roky.
650 0 $aRock musicians$zTexas$vBiography.
650 0 $aRock musicians$zUnited States$vInterviews.
650 0 $aPsychedelic rock music$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.
610 20 $a13th Floor Elevators (Musical group)
610 20 $aBleib Alien (Musical group)
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650 7 $aMUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician.$2bisacsh
600 17 $aErickson, Roky.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00298619
610 27 $a13th Floor Elevators (Musical group)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00698507
650 7 $aPsychedelic rock music.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01080980
650 7 $aRock musicians.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01099238
651 7 $aTexas.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01210336
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 7 $aBiographies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919896
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 $aInterviews.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423832
655 7 $aBiographies.$2lcgft
655 7 $aInterviews.$2lcgft
700 1 $aAtkinson, Brian T.,$eeditor.
700 1 $aGibbons, Billy F.,$d1949-$ewriter of foreword.
700 1 $aRollins, Henry,$d1961-$ewriter of foreword.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aTrue love cast out all evil$dCollege Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2021]$z9781648430442$w(DLC) 2021030135
830 0 $aJohn and Robin Dickson series in Texas music.
852 00 $bmus$hML420.E733$iT78 2021