Jay Nachman
(Friday)
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"Graham Parker's Howlin' Wind"

In the Village Voice’s year-end 1976 Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll, Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind placed fourth. In second place was his sophomore album, Heat Treatment. Number one was Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, and in third place was Jackson Browne’s The Pretender. Among that titanic company, it’s fair to say Parker more than held his own.

In his liner notes to Parker’s 2001 album, That’s When You Know, The Acoustic Demos & Live at Marble Arch, writer Nigel Williamson claimed, “Graham Parker and The Rumour had revitalized British music with their debut album Howlin’ Wind. Released in April 1976 to a wave of enthusiastic reviews that had compared Parker to Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen, his raw and energetic vocals combined with his intelligently crafted songwriting had come at just the right moment. Indeed, at the time Parker appeared to be the savior of British music.”

Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind is the captivating story of how the critically acclaimed album came together. The book illuminates Parker’s musical influences and those of the members of his backup band, The Rumour, against a backdrop of the British music scenes of the 1960s and 1970s and details how each song on Howlin’ Wind was written and recorded.

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