Wednesday, September 06, 2006

UNCOMMON SOUND: The Left-Handed Guitar Players That Changed Music

UNCOMMON SOUND: The Left-Handed Guitar Players That Changed Music explores popular music through the lives and works of these "wrong-sided" musicians, providing a unique yet surprisingly coherent perspective. Seven years in the making, John Engel's 920-page opus is an exhaustively researched and richly illustrated collection of 150 in-depth portraits of left-handed mavericks and legendary artists from all over the world, covering such genres as folk, blues, jazz, rock music, reggae, pop, punk, metal, R&B, country, samba, ki ho’alu, rai, and gnawa