The first publication from Rejected Unknown – the new book company founded by music journalist Everett True – is bold and unafraid. In order to publish 101 Albums You Should Die Before You Hear, True called for anyone and everyone to get involved. The resulting team ranged from writers, artists and musicians, to lawyers and marketing…
Lee, Myself and I: Inside the Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood Wyndham Wallace (Jawbone) Best known as the composer of Nancy Sinatra’s 1966 hit ‘These Boots Are Made For Walking’, for decades, Oklahoman Lee Hazlewood was a virtual recluse whose many, often wildly obscure, post-fame albums of soi-disant ‘cowboy psychedelia’ were bought by the…
Over the years, David Sheppard has been charged with writing or editing more than half-a-dozen musicianly monographs, and lived, as it were, to tell the tale; so he knows from bittersweet first-hand experience how penning a half-decent tome about the life of a popular recording or performing artist can be a pursuit littered with impediments…