Steve Goodman: Facing the Music
by Clay Eals
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Author: Clay EalsIntroduction: Arlo Guthrie
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-15
ISBN: 1550227327
Number of pages: 700
Publisher: ECW Press
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Book Review: A Remarkable Achievement
Summary: 5 Stars
This biography is a remarkable achievement. Eals synthesizes a massive amount of material to construct not only a life but an era. It should be of interest to anyone moved by a period when folk music no longer meant either "like the hillbillies played" or "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore," but resisted in a different way the blandishments and selfishness of mainstream popular culture, with songs about old-fashioned girls and vegematics, Spoon River and 42nd Street, old black men and Door Number Three.
When Clay showed me an early draft of his opening chapter, in which he describes one of Steve's last performances as his illness was worsening, I worried that he risked stigmatizing the book, and thus Steve's legacy, with the mawkishness of a disease of the week tale of "courage." Clay acknowledged the risk to all of us who expressed concern, and yet pressed on, committed to the notion that there was a way to tell Steve's story in a way that was deeply human, and thus deeply universal.
Clay's accomplished that with the same humane artistry that Steve brought to his own craft. In so doing, he's created a kind of folk journalism for the early 21st century. It's not folk in the museum-sense of written with a quill pen harvested from a goose he raised himself. It's folk in the original meaning of the term, as being of the people, of being real in its regard for beauty and humor, delight and wit, musicianship and charm, family and friends, birth and death. Better get it while you can . . .
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