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May 31, 2024 | 
newspub.live | Joel Selvin
Book ReviewDrums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim GordonBy Joel SelvinDiversion Books: 288 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The year was 1970, and Jim Gordon was in rock ‘n’ roll heaven.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
audible.com | Daniel de Visé |Keith O'Brien |Ed Zwick |Joel Selvin
“They’re not going to catch us,” Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. “We’re on a mission from God.” So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local Chicago orphanage.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
wdhafm.com | Joel Selvin
In his brand new book, author Joel Selvin tells the tragic career story of Jim Gordon, one of the most famous drummers in rock history. Gordon’s legacy would take a horrific turn due to schizophrenia. Touring with the Everly Brothers right out of high school, he would go on to become an integral member of the legendary Wrecking Crew, playing on countless hit records.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
goldminemag.com | Joel Selvin |Mike Greenblatt
Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim GordonBy Joel Selvin(Diversion Books)By Mike GreenblattYou’ve heard Jim Gordon’s drumming. You may not know his name.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
airmail.news | Joel Selvin
The 1970s rock scene could be incredibly accommodating—hospitable, even—to sexual deviants, drug addicts, and alcoholics, but it didn’t know how to deal with someone who was genuinely insane.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Joel Selvin |Zack Ruskin
“Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon” by former Chronicle music critic Joel Selvin. Photo: Diversion BooksThe legacy of rock drummer Jim Gordon hinges on two deaths: The first in 1983, when he murdered his mother with a hammer. The second in 2023, when he died from natural causes at age 77. At the time of the crime, Gordon’s actions were blamed on excessive drug and alcohol consumption. It wasn’t until after being sent to jail that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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Dec 31, 2023 | 
rosselliotbarkan.com | Kikuko Tsumura |Joel Selvin |John McMillan |Ross Barkan
Few technologies have endured longer than the book, and none, perhaps, feel more like an active rebellion against the world we’ve inherited. Parasitic screens are everywhere and it is increasingly impossible to be still, to experience the movement of your own thoughts. Once, the book had few rivals. Then came the radio, the film screen, the television, the personal computer, and, finally, the smartphone. The last poses, by far, the greatest threat to the book’s future.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
thatericalper.com | Joel Selvin |Eric Alper
Don’t get her wrong– Francine Honey is just as sweet as her name implies. But on her latest record Rockets In My Boots, Volume 1, she’s frisky, risky, and ready to shoot whiskey, and the album is out now. Building on recent career momentum, Rockets In My Boots, Volume is Honey’s most daring record yet.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
thatericalper.com | Joel Selvin |Eric Alper
Just about a month ago it was announced that Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon by Joel Selvin would be published by Diversion Books on February 27. In the weeks that followed, a number of advance reading copies of the book found their way to some notable recipients who had expressed interest in reading it. As the countdown to February 27 continues we share some of their comments.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
citylights.com | Joel Selvin
A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records. Founded in 1960 by Chris Strachwitz, the one-man operation Arhoolie Records eventually produced more than four hundred albums during more than forty years in operation, exploring the far corners of American vernacular music–blues, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, hillbilly, Texas-Mexican norteño music, and more.
