TOM WAITS, BLUE VALENTINE
Revised Second Edition with new facts and information, also includes review and analysis of Tom's 'Mule Variations' album and details of his other recent projects. Tom ventured into films working with Sylvester Stallone, Michael Wadleigh, Chris Cain, Francis Ford Coppola, Hector Babenco, Robert Altman and a starring role for Jim Jarmusch. Tom's songs have been influenced by Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Nelson Algren and William Burroughs; Tom actually worked with William Burroughs creating a stage show. Tom has also created a show based on Alice Liddell, she was Alice in Wonderland. This is a track by track and film by film overview of Tom's career, the ghost of Jack Kerouac is everywhere.
TOM WAITS, BLUE VALENTINE ISBN 1 899882 75 8 Paperback 210 x 150mm £ 6.99

BOB DYLAN THE MAN IN HIM
A career overview packed full of facts and information which also includes reviews and analysis of all Bob's officially released albums and details of his other projects.
Not content being a brilliant singer-songwriter, Bob ventured into films, painting and wrote his legendary book Tarantula. Bob's songs have been influenced by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and William Burroughs, but through most of his career he has been influenced by the ups and downs of his own life.
Ken Brooks has also located many other influences, he also analyses many critic's tenuous associations with Bob's work. Bob has always stated that 'we don't know him' which is perfectly true, but through his music and celebrity we know him much better than he knows us. In fact when a man in a lift said to Bob "I know who you are but you don't know me", Bob responded with 'Great let's keep it that way!".
Bob has always attempted to maintain the level of aspiration that his fans desire, an impossible accomplishment. He is the greatest poet of the twentieth century, don't take Ken's word for it that was the belief of Allen Ginsberg.
This book has no padding it has opinions, suggestions, arguments, concepts and proposals to set your mind wandering. You may only agree with a few of the presumptions but you will certainly find them absorbing and interesting. The ideal listeners companion, searching for the real Bob Dylan, someone we can never hope to evaluate completely.
BOB DYLAN, THE MAN IN HIM ISBN 1 899882 01 4 paperback 210 x 150mm PRICE £ 9.99

JONI MITCHELL, PAVED PARADISE.
Joni rose to fame in the sixties with beautiful albums such as 'Ladies of the Canyon' and 'Clouds'. Joni is also a painter and in recent years she has devoted more time to art and has become a sought-after artist. Many of her albums have displayed her artwork and she won an award for her design of her compact disc booklet for 'Turbulent Indigo'. She wrote the song for Woodstock but was not present at the Festival of Love. Joni has used her lyrics to speak to ex-lovers, her parents, new lovers, and her child that was adopted. Some of the songs are extremely personal, exorcising many ghosts. Joni's officially released albums are evaluated in this track-by-track analysis. She joins Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, and Gordon Lightfoot as one of the greatest Canadian singer songwriters of the modern generation. Her love of folk music merged into jazz and then rock 'n' roll, at all times her lyrics have been thought provoking, after all she has seen the World from both sides now!
JONI MITCHELL, PAVED PARADISE ISBN 1 899882 855 Paperback 210 x 150mm PRICE £6.99

IN SEARCH OF VAN MORRISON
Van Morrison is totally dedicated to his art of creating music, his work is vast and uncompromising. This in depth investigation is an attempt to find through Van's influences and his Iyrics, just what makes him tick. Van is a self taught intellectual, a Doctor of Letters and an O.B.E, which makes him a suitable target for tabloid journalism, his celebrity makes an anonymous life impossible. Van Morrison is a genius with aImost 40 years in the music business, he is a teacher to his fans, a shy man who continues his life-long search for the ultimate truth. We can never be sure just how close this analysis gets to the inner man, the author's life has many correlations with that of Van, making this book a most enjoyable journey.
IN SEARCH OF VAN MORRISON ISBN 1 899882 95 2 Paperback 210 x 150mm £ 8.99