My First Guitar (Ebook)

Tales of True Love and Lost Chords

Julia Crowe

The world's greatest guitarists reveal the stories behind the first six-string that fed their lifelong passion.

Julia Crowe interviews the world's leading guitarists, from Les Paul, Carlos Santana, Peter Frampton and Jimmie Vaughan, Joe Satriani, Melissa Etheridge, to Lee Ranaldo, George Benson and Jimmy Page. In interviews that offer an intimate insights into their beginnings as they recall their first instrument and share their memories of the inspiration, challenges, and successes of their early days.
"Collecting these tales has been admittedly addictive because each story is as unique, compelling and illuminating as the performer... My intent was simple - to ask the artists to speak for themselves." - Julia Crowe
Crossing a vast array of genres, showing the common experience of all guitarists, Julia Crowe offers intimate and deeply human insights into a musician's beginnings as her interviewees recall their first instrument and share their memories of the inspiration, challenges, and successes of those early days.

Publication date: 01/03/2018

£13.99

ISBN: 9780285644076

ISBN 10 / ASIN: B078SZ4M65

Imprint: Souvenir Press

Subject: Arts, Language & Literature, Biography & Memoir

Reviews for My First Guitar

'Anyone who loves guitars and guitar players (whether or not you're a player yourself) will love looking through this book.'

American Songwriter .

'I knew the guitar was going to be part of my life from the first time I was able to play something and put together a sequence of chords.'

Jimmy Page .

'It's not just about the first guitars or the players themselves, really... This is life, told and celebrated through guitars'

Premier Guitar .

'Ask a musician to talk about their first instrument and it seems that they are off and running, full of anecdotes, joy and poetic longing.'

Graham Parker .

Julia Crowe

Julia Crowe

Julia Crowe is a fingerstyle-playing electric guitar soloist and film composer whose music has been featured on NPR in the U.S. and on radio in Brazil. She also works in diverse mediums (photography, painting and animation) to enhance the expression of her music.