More Miles Than Money : Journeys Through American Music
More Miles Than Money : Journeys Through American Music
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Author(s): Cartwright, Garth
ISBN No.: 9781846686870
Pages: 400
Year: 200910
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 24.52
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

A paperback originalInspired by Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac and American music, Garth Cartwright lands in San Francisco and lights out for the frontier. Traveling far beyond the McUSA of MTV and shopping malls he goes in search of wild, untames America.From East LA's narco-corridos to Mississippi juke joints, via Native American powwows and Burning Man, on Route 66 and Highway 61, he traverses territory shaped by struggle and song. Along the way he encounters outlaw poets, Navajo beauties, Chicago soul men, Tex-Mex icons and the last Mississippi blues singers.Constantly in motion, Cartwright observes a frayed, divided US, one plagued by crystal meth and poverty. But when the music plays and the open road calls he finds America's primal spirit remains. More Miles than Money is an outsider's fierce odyssey through the land of the free.'Cartwright takes you on a quixotic trek down the dirt roads of American music.


you can almost smell the catfish frying, taste the white whiskey, and feel that bassline pounding away' Michael Dregni, author of Django: the Life & Times of a Gypsy LegendPraise for Princes Amongst Men:'Brilliant. an irresistable combination of travelogue and search for human roots' Sunday Express.


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