<< 1 >>
Rating: 
Summary: It's got the beat
Review: "Highway 61" proves you don't need a ticket, or wheels, to go on an adventure. Just kick back your slippers, pour some gin into your black tea and sink your teeth into this gripping father-son journey. It will move you like a classic rock 'n' roll recording. Heck, it could stand right next to the other pop treat with the same name: Bob Dylan's masterpiece album.
Rating:
Summary: Buy it for someone you love
Review: A wonderful book about the love between a father and a son. There's also a lot of humor and rock'n'roll as dad and son travel 6,000 miles down the middle of the country.
Rating: 
Summary: ok we get the point
Review: This book is a quick and dissapointing read. Let me say I'm a Dylan and blues fan, and wouldn't have read it if I weren't. But McKeen is obsessed with Dylan, or "His Holy Exalted Bobness" as he calls him. Almost disturbingly obsessed. In fact, he can hardly write 5 pages without dropping his name or thinking "how it felt for Bob to do (insert action here.)" Yeah, I'm sure they're on a first name basis. His whole commentary and conversation is just annoying and feels forced. In short, the real Highway 61 and Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" are indescribably better. Buy the album and drive the highway....that is a lot more fun than reading irritating book.
Rating:
Summary: ok we get the point
Review: This book is a quick and dissapointing read. Let me say I'm a Dylan and blues fan, and wouldn't have read it if I weren't. But McKeen is obsessed with Dylan, or "His Holy Exalted Bobness" as he calls him. Almost disturbingly obsessed. In fact, he can hardly write 5 pages without dropping his name or thinking "how it felt for Bob to do (insert action here.)" Yeah, I'm sure they're on a first name basis. His whole commentary and conversation is just annoying and feels forced. In short, the real Highway 61 and Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" are indescribably better. Buy the album and drive the highway....that is a lot more fun than reading irritating book.
Rating:
Summary: I love this book!
Review: What a great book, and for a kid who is just learning about rock and roll, I found it quite educational. I just hope my Dad is cool enough to take me for a trip like this when I am 18. I especially liked it when they ate food all the time. Buy this and give it to your Dad if he likes rock and roll, the older stuff, not like Radiohead or Third Eye Blind. Doyn doyn.
Rating:
Summary: A Journey Well Done
Review: William McKeen has accomplished what would seem to be an almost impossible task: combining the lure of a road trip, an encyclopaedic knowledge of rock 'n roll history and a chance to delve deeper into his relationship with his son without turning those disparate elements into a chronicle that is weepy, academic or melodramatic. What arises instead on these pages will satisfy both the rock historians and the road trippers out there -- all of whom will want to fire up the car and stoke up the cooler once they read this book.McKeen and his son, Graham, who grew up apart from his journalism professor father, take this trip through the literal and figurative heart of America, off the beaten path and down the back alleys of music and kitsch. Along they way, they rediscover America's cultural heritage and their own place in each others' lives. McKeen has a tremendous sense of humor, as dry as some of the stretches of highway he traveled. The ghosts of Dylan, Handy, Holly and Robert Johnson haunt this book and the drive south along a legendary stretch of pavement. Is there gas in the car? Yes, there's gas in the car.
<< 1 >>
| 
