Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes

Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapesdistills thirty delirious, jam-packed yearsof some of the best music writing ever tocome out of the Twin Cities. As a writer andmusician, the ever-curious Jim Walsh haslived a life immersed in music, and it all makesits way into his columns and feature articles,interviews and reviews--including personalessays on life, love, music, family, death, andyes, the manic-depressive highs and lows thatcome with being an obsessive music loverand...
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Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapesdistills thirty delirious, jam-packed yearsof some of the best music writing ever tocome out of the Twin Cities. As a writer andmusician, the ever-curious Jim Walsh haslived a life immersed in music, and it all makesits way into his columns and feature articles,interviews and reviews--including personalessays on life, love, music, family, death, andyes, the manic-depressive highs and lows thatcome with being an obsessive music loverand listener.From Minneapolis's own Prince to such farflungacts as David Bowie, the Waterboys,Lucinda Williams, Parliament-Funkadelic, L7,the Rolling Stones, the Ramones, U2, HankWilliams, Britney Spears, Elvis Presley, andNirvana, Walsh's work treats us to a chorusof the voices and sounds that have made themusic scene over the past three decades.Whether he's dishing dirt with Yoko Ono ordigging the Replacements' roots, giving anold rocker a spin or offering a mic to the latestupstart, Jim Walsh reminds us that in the landof ten thousand lakes there are a thousanddances, and the music never dies.