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More Miles Than Money
Journeys Through American Music
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Book Details
- ISBN 9781846686870
- 1 October 2009
- Paperback
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Synopsis
Inspired by Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac and American music, Garth Cartwright lands in San Francisco and lights out for the frontier. Traveling far beyond the McUSA of MTV and shopping malls he goes in search of wild, untamed America.
From East LA’s narco-corridos to Mississippi juke joints, via Native American powwows and Burning Man, on Route 66 and Highway 61, he traverses territory shaped by struggle and song. Along the way he encounters outlaw poets, Navajo beauties, Chicago soul men, Tex-Mex icons and the last Mississippi blues singers.
Constantly in motion, Cartwright observes a frayed, divided US, one plagued by crystal meth and poverty. But when the music plays and the open road calls he finds America’s primal spirit remains. More Miles Than Money is an outsider’s fierce odyssey through the land of the free.
Reviews
‘Wild American road tales from a writer who lives to ride’
Charlie Musselwhite
‘Cartwright takes you on a quixotic trek down the dirt roads of American music… Reading his passionate prose, you can almost smell the catfish frying, taste the white whiskey, and feel that bassline pounding away’
Michael Dregni, author of Django: the Life & Times of a Gypsy Legend
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