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Following up on last Wednesday’s post, the Carnival Saloon has invited Tony Tost to list his top 5 songs that Johnny Cash should have covered before he died. The link is here. The original versions of the songs are helpfully embedded in the post for your convenience.

Bob Dylan turns 70 years old on May 24th. (Click the covers for more information.) In Bob‘s own words:“Everybody knows by now that there’s a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I’m encouraging anybody who’s ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in

Carnival Saloon has a really lovely and enlightening interview with Tony Tost about his 33 1/3 volume on Johnny Cash’s American Recordings, the album’s producer Rick Rubin, social justice, and songwriting. Do you think the film Walk the Line would have been made if Johnny hadn’t made American Recordings? I don’t think Walk the Line

It’s springtime, which means that David Smay (author of Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones, which you can buy here) is coming back to Los Angeles to lead his Tom Waits bus tour again! Link Here: http://www.esotouric.com/waits This is the definitive tour of Tom Waits’ formative creative life in Los Angeles, and the people, places and late night

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The Rumpus has an excerpt of Tony Tost’s just-published 33 1/3 on Johnny Cash’s American Recordings. This particular passage touches on Cash, Tom Waits, Jerry Lee Lewis, and philosophies of salvation. Highly recommended. Here’s the link. Tony also has an excellent podcast of old weird American recordings called Tony Tost’s America that is worth delving

Don’t forget: Tomorrow, April 28th at 7pm at Housing Works in Soho! What has become of contemporary fan communities in the age of online communities, comments, and democratized criticism? Join Daphne Carr (Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine, Continuum 2011), Laina Dawes (What Are You Doing Here? Black Women in Metal, Hardcore and Punk, Spring

One of the volumes we’ll be publishing in the autumn is RJ Wheaton’s study of Dummy. Here’s a taste of what’s in the book: ** During the Dummy sessions, Portishead turned towards producing their own samples, recording Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley and performances from a host of other musicians, many of them from Utley’s

Next Thursday, April 28th, 33 1/3 author Joe Bonomo and rock critic Jim DeRogatis will be speaking about music writing at Columbia College in Chicago. Where: Columbia College, Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave. Rm 101When: Thursday, April 28th 6:30 PM