Easy Riders, Rolling Stones delves
into the history of twentieth century American popular music to explore
the emergence of 60s “road music.” This music—which includes styles
like blues and R&B——took shape at pivotal moments in history and
was made by artists and performers who were, in various ways, seekers
after freedom. Whether journeying across the country, breaking free from
real or imaginary confines, or in the throes of self-invention, these
artists incorporated their experiences into scores of songs about travel
and movement, as well as creating a new kind of road culture.
Starting in the Mississippi Delta and tracking the emblematic routes and
highways of road music, John Scanlan explores the music and the life of
movement it so often represented, identifying “the road” as the key to
an existence that was uncompromising. He shows how the road became an
inspiration for musicians like Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan and how these
musicians also drew stimulus from a Beat movement that was equally
enthralled with the possibilities of travel. He also shows how the
quintessential American concepts of freedom and travel influenced
English bands such as the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. These bands
may have been foreigners in the US, but they also found their spiritual
home there—of blues and rock ‘n’ roll––and glimpsed the possibility of a
new kind of existence, on the road.
Easy Riders, Rolling Stones is
an entertaining, rich account of a key strand of American music
history, and will appeal to both road music fans and music scholars who
want to “head out on the highway.”
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