How to Talk to Rockstars edition by Alli Marshall Literature Fiction eBooks
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Wallflower-turned-journalist Bryn Thompson has a dream job she interviews rockstars. Bryn’s professionalism keeps her on track, but also emotionally removed from the gritty world of back stage, bars and drugs that she writes about. That is, until she meets musician Jude Archer, whose songs haunt her. As an unlikely friendship grows out of Bryn’s obsession with Jude’s album, she begins to rethink all of the carefully-contrived rules that until now have helped her maintain a professional distance. How to Talk to Rockstars is an exploration of love, loneliness, and rock ‘n’ roll.
Think Almost Famous meets the History of love.
How to Talk to Rockstars edition by Alli Marshall Literature Fiction eBooks
How to Talk to Rockstars is not an auto¬biographic tale, but it does uncover the soul of someone, like author Alli Marshall (current Arts Editor at Mountain Xpress), who passionately loves music. “In my personal life music plays a lot of different roles,” she says, “motivation, inspira¬tion, mood enhancer. I have different play lists for whatever I’m doing.” She sees her novel as “a love letter to music and the power of music. In some ways, it’s my ‘thank you’ to all the musicians I’ve met over the years.”Rockstars is a “quiet” novel, meaning there’s not much action, no murders or kid¬nappings, in fact, no one even falls off stage. It is, however, an exciting, can’t-put-down read, thanks to its raw look at the inner workings of a creative person. Bryn is a rare heroine, a female music writer in an industry populated mostly by men.
With no friends, female or male, Bryn spends most of her days, and nights, very much alone. Why did Alli make Bryn so soli¬tary? “The really wonderful thing about music and why so many of us gravitate to it,” says Alli, “is because it creates community. Going to a show, even just listening to music, you’re with other people. I wanted Bryn to be alone to underscore the role of music.” …
In real life, being interviewed by Alli Marshall is an absolute must for any musician who wants to make an impact in Asheville. Alli usually interviews by phone, for a half an hour. But even after doing almost 500 (!) interviews, Alli doesn’t find it easy. “It still causes me a lot of anxiety,” she admits. “Sometimes I’m hyperventilating right before an interview.”
When I asked Alli for her definition of a rockstar, she gave me such an extraordinary answer that it changed my whole conception of what music means to people “A rockstar is an archetype,” she says, “a persona and image, a kind of performance art created to remind audiences of our own inner wildness, the life of the soul that is greater than day-to-day mundaneness.” To follow that idea even farther, she adds, “I’d say a rockstar is almost shamanic, connecting to the creative source and channeling that energy to the audience… there is a sense of ritual around concerts and festivals. These are the places we go to escape our ordinary lives and participate in a dream of something more magnificent. It’s where we recharge, find community, feel free. And rock¬stars are the conductors of those ceremonies.”
Her favorite rockstars of all time? Mark Bolan (1947-1977), the front man of English glam rock group T. Rex, was “the ultimate rock star,” a singer-songwriter, a guitarist and a brilliant poet. Then there’s Alabama-born blues legend Wille Mae “Big Mama” Thorn¬ton (1926-1984), who made “Hound Dog” a hit in 1953, three years before Elvis Presley came out with his version. “And, of course, Ja¬nis Joplin,” (1943-1970), the American singer-songwriter “Queen of Psychedelic Soul.”
Her favorite current rockstars? “Britt Daniel of Spoon, out of Austin, Texas, is really incredible,” Alli says. “And Joseph Arthur (from Akron, Ohio) who performed here in the fall, is the most underrated musician cur¬rently, so talented, but never became famous and deserves more acclaim.” ”
Favorite Local WNC rock stars? “Oh, Seth Kauffman of Floating Action in Black Mountain. His whole persona, how he appreciates creativity and the type of music he puts out — he’s just terrific. I’m a big fan.”
Who do you want to interview but haven’t yet? “That would be Beck,” she says, the American singer-song writer, musician, and producer. “Our careers have taken similar turns — he started music when I started writing. And he doesn’t do a lot of interviews. We’d have a great conversation!”
--excerpt from Rapid River Arts & Culture Magazine review, May, 2015 by Marcianne Miller
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How to Talk to Rockstars edition by Alli Marshall Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
While the title of this sweetly thoughtful novel is accurate enough, and the story offers entirely useful instructions for the would-be talker-to, it is misleading. Alli Marshall is a sharp-eyed observer of our interior worlds, our motives, our fears, our loneliness and loves. Her succinct descriptions of place and trajectory echo her long experience as a print reporter, self-edited for brevity and punch. In the telling of this tale about a music reviewer and musicians, a genre and a world that are so often taken up with surfaces, Marshall goes deep. And smart. To coin a phrase, a truly stellar first novel.
How to Talk to Rockstars is not an auto¬biographic tale, but it does uncover the soul of someone, like author Alli Marshall (current Arts Editor at Mountain Xpress), who passionately loves music. “In my personal life music plays a lot of different roles,” she says, “motivation, inspira¬tion, mood enhancer. I have different play lists for whatever I’m doing.” She sees her novel as “a love letter to music and the power of music. In some ways, it’s my ‘thank you’ to all the musicians I’ve met over the years.”
Rockstars is a “quiet” novel, meaning there’s not much action, no murders or kid¬nappings, in fact, no one even falls off stage. It is, however, an exciting, can’t-put-down read, thanks to its raw look at the inner workings of a creative person. Bryn is a rare heroine, a female music writer in an industry populated mostly by men.
With no friends, female or male, Bryn spends most of her days, and nights, very much alone. Why did Alli make Bryn so soli¬tary? “The really wonderful thing about music and why so many of us gravitate to it,” says Alli, “is because it creates community. Going to a show, even just listening to music, you’re with other people. I wanted Bryn to be alone to underscore the role of music.” …
In real life, being interviewed by Alli Marshall is an absolute must for any musician who wants to make an impact in Asheville. Alli usually interviews by phone, for a half an hour. But even after doing almost 500 (!) interviews, Alli doesn’t find it easy. “It still causes me a lot of anxiety,” she admits. “Sometimes I’m hyperventilating right before an interview.”
When I asked Alli for her definition of a rockstar, she gave me such an extraordinary answer that it changed my whole conception of what music means to people “A rockstar is an archetype,” she says, “a persona and image, a kind of performance art created to remind audiences of our own inner wildness, the life of the soul that is greater than day-to-day mundaneness.” To follow that idea even farther, she adds, “I’d say a rockstar is almost shamanic, connecting to the creative source and channeling that energy to the audience… there is a sense of ritual around concerts and festivals. These are the places we go to escape our ordinary lives and participate in a dream of something more magnificent. It’s where we recharge, find community, feel free. And rock¬stars are the conductors of those ceremonies.”
Her favorite rockstars of all time? Mark Bolan (1947-1977), the front man of English glam rock group T. Rex, was “the ultimate rock star,” a singer-songwriter, a guitarist and a brilliant poet. Then there’s Alabama-born blues legend Wille Mae “Big Mama” Thorn¬ton (1926-1984), who made “Hound Dog” a hit in 1953, three years before Elvis Presley came out with his version. “And, of course, Ja¬nis Joplin,” (1943-1970), the American singer-songwriter “Queen of Psychedelic Soul.”
Her favorite current rockstars? “Britt Daniel of Spoon, out of Austin, Texas, is really incredible,” Alli says. “And Joseph Arthur (from Akron, Ohio) who performed here in the fall, is the most underrated musician cur¬rently, so talented, but never became famous and deserves more acclaim.” ”
Favorite Local WNC rock stars? “Oh, Seth Kauffman of Floating Action in Black Mountain. His whole persona, how he appreciates creativity and the type of music he puts out — he’s just terrific. I’m a big fan.”
Who do you want to interview but haven’t yet? “That would be Beck,” she says, the American singer-song writer, musician, and producer. “Our careers have taken similar turns — he started music when I started writing. And he doesn’t do a lot of interviews. We’d have a great conversation!”
--excerpt from Rapid River Arts & Culture Magazine review, May, 2015 by Marcianne Miller
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