Description: Hardcover Cloth 194 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 2007. Lovely orange boards with black buckram spine and gilt embossing spotlights this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear with undamaged corners. An unclipped dust jacket is smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Would you like to protect this dust jacket with a mylar cover? Add item 176708421996 to your order! Includes music CD attached to back endpapers. Inscribed by author on title page. Since he first hitched a ride out of Lubbock, Texas, at the age of sixteen, singer-songwriter and Flatlanders band member Joe Ely has been a road warrior, traveling highways and back roads across America and Europe, playing music for "2 hours of ecstasy" out of "22 hours of misery." To stay sane on the road, Ely keeps a journal, penning verses that sometimes morph into songs, and other times remain "snapshots of what was flying by, just out of reach, so to savor at a later date when the wheels stop rolling, and the gears quit grinding, and the engines shut down." In Bonfire of Roadmaps, Ely takes readers on the road with him. Using verse passages from his road journals and his own drawings, Ely authentically re-creates the experience of a musician's life on tour, from the hard goodbyes at home, to the long hours on the road, to the exhilaration of a great live show, to the exhaustion after weeks of touring. Ely's road trips begin as he rides the rails to Manhattan in 1972 and continue up through recent concert tours with fellow Flatlanders Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock. While acknowledging that "it is not the nature of a gypsy to look in the rearview mirror," Joe Ely nevertheless offers his many fans a revelatory look back over the roads he's traveled and the wisdom he's won from his experiences. And for "those who want to venture beyond the horizon just to see what is there... to those, I hope these accounts will give a glint of inspiration..."
Price: 36 USD
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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Signed By: Joe Ely
Signed: Yes
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Inscribed: No
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Type: Hardcover
Personalized: No
Features: First Edition, Dust Jacket, Hardcover, Signed
Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
Book Title: Bonfire of Roadmaps
Number of Pages: 196 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, General, Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass
Publication Year: 2007
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Music, Poetry
Item Weight: 13.9 Oz
Author: Joe Ely
Item Length: 8.8 in
Book Series: Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Ser.
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Hardcover
