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It’s Oxford American Music Issue Day here at the office, as we just got our copy in the mail (better late than never). A quick count of Continuum authors in the table of contents yields the following: David Kirby (Little Richard) on Bo DiddleyMichael T. Fournier (The Minutemen) on Hayden ThompsonMegan Mayhew Bergman & Kate

Generally, I take this sort of thing with a grain of salt, but there’s not too much to argue about here. Here’s some worthwhile reading on two of the inductees: Eric Weisbard on Guns n’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion I & II Dan LeRoy on The Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique You might also check out

NOT BAD! We’ll take it! AMAZING GRACEBy Aaron Cohen.Continuum, paper, $12.95. As with all the books in Continuum’s 33· series, this one looks at a single album — in this case, Aretha Franklin’s 1972 live gospel set, “Amazing Grace,” which Cohen (an associate editor at DownBeat) argues is her “artistic peak.” That’s no small claim,

The author of the Ramones 33 1/3 has a wonderful piece in the Southern Music Issue of the Oxford American, http://oxfordamerican.org/articles/issues/latest_issue/ on obscure Mississippi bluesman Henry Green.

Michael Fournier, author of the excellent 33 1/3 on The Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime, has just released his debut novel Hidden Wheel with Three Rooms Press. More importantly, he has a Kickstarter page going to fund a book tour in the spring that is bound to be a wild ride. Here’s the link

It’s always nice to see writing from 33 1/3 authors pop up elsewhere. David Smay, author of Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones, is doing a series of pieces on early sixties horror films for hilowbrow.com. Did you know that Psycho, Peeping Tom, Black Sunday and Eyes Without a Face all came out in 1960 alone? Here’s an

Nice to see a good selection of the series at Dusty Groove in Chicago (and of course nationwide if you are of a mailorder persuasion).

This Booklist review of the volume on Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace really nails it: In the newest addition to Continuum’s terrific 33-1/3 series, which focuses on such landmark albums as Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life and Patti Smith’s Horses, Downbeat associate editor Cohen, winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, tells the