{"product_id":"how-to-prepare-for-the-past-travels-in-music-and-time","title":"How to Prepare For The Past: Travels In Music and Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eBrian Cullman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\" data-border-radii='{\"topLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"topRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0}}' data-sqsp-block=\"text\" id=\"block-214b878407ad29ade356\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eWhen people asked me my favorite song, I would say the radio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIt was all one sound. It was all one song: the drums and the words, the words without words, the rhythm and the static and the joy and amplified tears. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eTV was a clunky box in the corner, nothing but images on a screen telling the same story over and over. The stories were old and small and over before they began. Yesterday’s gossip and twice cold toast. They gave me nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eBut Smokey Robinson crying in the night like a flower with a hangover, The Ronettes, so carnivorous and tender, the sound of eternity in bed with the night: this was love and death and a ticket to places the buses don’t go; the dreams of the dead, the regrets of the living, stolen prayers from the broken church where God and the Devil relax after work and trade places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eI went to sleep to it, woke up to it. The idiot announcers and jingles and calls from New Jersey, the news and the drums and guitars, all one. How can I choose my favorite part of the rain? I wanted to walk in it, dance in it. Get wet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eWhen people asked me my favorite song, I would just say the radio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Brian Cullman always knew where the great music was hidden and writes about it with wit and elegance. His descriptions of close encounters with Nick Drake, Big Joe Turner, the Master Musicians of Jajouka, and so many others are as good as music reportage gets.” \u003cstrong\u003eJoe Boyd, record producer and author of \u003cem\u003eAnd the Roots of Rhythm Remain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“A fantastic memoir of a lifelong love affair with music, intertwined with recollections of a time when Music functioned as a Power in the Earth. Cullman’s recollections are written from a wry, wise, and witty vantage point: that of an undaunted, participating witness to an extraordinary time in history. A great book.” \u003cstrong\u003eVernon Reid\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e11.06.26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e9798988670100\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExtent:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***Please note, if out of stock at our warehouse, this title can be purchased at most good high street and online booksellers***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Omnibus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57308072509817,"sku":"9798988670100","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0284\/5379\/7967\/files\/9798988670100.jpg?v=1779116226","url":"https:\/\/omnibuspress.com\/products\/how-to-prepare-for-the-past-travels-in-music-and-time","provider":"omnibuspress.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}