Diary of a POLL Star: what are your most/least favorite books by musos?

I love how in my paperback edition which has both books in one volume, the first book is printed one way up, and the other book is the other way.

Repossessed was never published separately.

ahh fair enough, was not aware of that.

Torn between voting for Viv Albertine and Nile Rodgers, both absolutely first-rate.

Head On was only self-published previously and OOP at the time - basically you're getting it as a bonus disc with his major label debut, except books

agree that they're in the top 5 musician's autobios ever

Voted Cave, but write-in vote for The Free by Willy Vlautin out of Richmond Fontaine – an unsparingly haunting and unsettling read.

I just saw on Books About Music that the recent All Gates Open: The Story of Can is by Rob Young *and* Irmin Schmidt, so qualifies for this thread too, wanna read it.
Should have thought of Willy Vlautin! I've yet to hear Richmond Fontaine or read his books, but was really stuck by The Delines' Colfax, which he wrote for the solo voice of RF's other singer, Amy Boone, and sounds like related short stories/scenes from a life over the decades or maybe a few days, working class urban, going toward or past something romantic, disillusioning, hopeful etc. Here's xgau on the novels---struck by mention of the waitress who mentally checks in w Paul Newman for time to time: not only does it seem like a continuation of Colfax, the latter already had me daydreaming about The Hustler's Newman and Laurie Piper, "pretty as lucky pennies," as I said on the blog, sitting in a bright gray diner, stirring the coffee and relaxing for a moment, as the city traffic rumbles by. And then---
Anyway here's xgau on the print(he likes RF and The Delines too):
https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bn/2014-04.php

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but was really stuck by The Delines' Colfax, which he wrote for the solo voice of RF's other singer, Amy Boone

Amy Boone was a touring replacement for Vlautin's first choice female vocalist, her sister Deborah, who was pregnant and couldn't travel the dives that extensively (RF was touring behind an album about a woman and a man, kind of a story-cycle, so they needed to recruit a woman), and later "The Delines was formed by Vlautin around Amy Boone. He wrote their 2014 album Colfax with Boone’s voice in his head." Saga here, w some vids:
http://nodepression.com/article/richmond-fontaine-their-own-words-reminder-what-were-missing
Also:
http://nodepression.com/interview/amy-boone-delines-damnations-and-what-exactly-social-message
These were the same Boones who ran the Damnations, cowpunk y'all Gotta dig up my ancient CDs---o hell yeah, here they are as The Damnations TX, on Half Mad Moon, 1999, Sire Records! That's a good 'un. Thanks James, had totally forgotten about them 'til you inspired me to finally do a little homework. The Delines and Richmond Fontaine and Vlautin as novelist just seemed so on their own roadmap that I never thought to check for the usual muso grid.

Oh and it's Piper Laurie, not Laurie Piper, duh

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