The new book about Americana, country, folk, songwriters, Texas music is available worldwide.
With A Haven For Songs: Connecting The Dots About Americana Music, selected works of novelist, lyricist and music critic Martin Wimmer are available in the USA for the first time.
Book (ISBN: 9783754156919): 19,99 US-Dollar Amazon.com (USA), 14,99 Euro Amazon.de (Deutschland)
ebook (ISBN: 9783754157046): 7,99 US-Dollar Amazon.com (USA), 6,99 Euro Amazon.de (Deutschland)
Martin Wimmer explains his personal relationship with the art of magicians such as Townes Van Zandt, Jerry Jeff Walker, Blaze Foley, Woody Guthrie, John Prine, Bob Dylan, and Johnny Mercer. These artists, among many others mentioned in the book, are the glue that holds together time, love, history, space, and identity. Join Wimmer on a trip down musical-memory lane as he recounts his adventures at the 30A Songwriter Festival in Florida, the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, and New York City. Finally, experience Wimmer’s perspective on the Cajun music of Louisiana, Hawaiian Slack Key, the Paisley Underground scene in California, Americana in Europe, and how each of these music scenes are tied to the “Country & Folk” music we know and love today.
Praise for the book:
„This is a very enjoyable book. Above all, what this book is about is learning to take off the blinkers and look at a wider world. Martin Wimmer is to be applauded for a book that really makes you think again. He rightly shows that what draws most of us to this music is a feeling of freedom. Read this book, because we all need to have our horizons expanded.“
Americana-uk.com, December 2021
“Thank you from Texas!”
Kathleen Hudson, Ph.D., author, Texas
„A literary monument to songs and songwriters as entertaining as it is informative. Intellectual and tongue-in-cheek. Wimmer sincerely loves the music and its protagonists. Worth reading!“
Country.de, December 2021
“Witty, quirky, entertaining, rich in imagery, cool, personal. A great read. Ideal for beginners in the genre.“
Folker magazine, 1/2022
“Thoughtfully conceived and eloquently delivered.”
Danny Paradise, Musician, Yoga teacher, film maker, Hawaii
„Aren’t those the best books, which create some kind of parallel stream
of consciousness in oneself while reading? ‘A Haven For Songs’ is one
of those. Inspiring.”
H. P. Daniels, Music Journalist
“An accessible, entertaining prose that’ll make you want to come along. Wimmer is a Texas songwriter expert of the highest order.“
Markus Rill, Songwriter
„Open, swimming, associative, at the same time razor-sharp, sometimes absurd, always well informed musings on the dark corners and weird angles of that cultural thing called Americana. Highly recommended.“
Pat Carter, songwriter, Rodeo FM, Germany
„It is a very short list of individuals who have the background to share with us a peak behind the curtain of the bones and progression of what we today call Americana Music. Martin has created a ‘road map’ if you will, of how it all began and the major influencers. A must read for all musical history lovers.“
Blaze Foley Duct Tape Messiah Movie Facebook Page, USA
„All this beauty needs to be shared in the best way and Martin does it, with a lot of passion and competence. His view on the world and his knowledge in music is so broad and deep. Because his knowledge goes beyond music and has been shaped and molded by his love for life and for the best things human beings are capable of creating. His transversal approach in this book composes something incredibly rich.“
Andrea Parodi, Songwriter, Italy
„Martin Wimmer’s book takes you on a fast-paced spacecraft through the Americana universe – ingenious, witty, silver-tongued and spot-on he‘s broken the speed of the sound of country music storytelling.“
Carmen & Kai Nees, Authors of the book ‚Blaze Foley, From Misfit To Legend‘
„I don’t think there’s anyone among us Americana music lovers who wouldn’t benefit from reading this book.“
Hans Settler, Insurgent Country
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