Jukebox America: Down Back Streets and Blue Highways in Search of the Country's Greatest Jukebox
Language: English
Published by St Martins Pr, 1994
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First edition on black cloth.
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- Title
- Jukebox America: Down Back Streets and Blue Highways in Search of the Country's Greatest Jukebox
- Author
- Bunch, William
- Publisher
- St Martins Pr
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312110138
- ISBN 13
- 9780312110130
What he was looking for wasn't the chrome-adorned item itself; it was the unique musical collection, the joyful, anarchic alchemy of golden hits and forgotten 45's that only an unsung, back-of-the-bar jukebox could offer. But more, much more that this, what he was looking for represented his youth - and the youth of his generation, the Rear Guard Baby Boomers, reaching back to the late nights and easy life of their twenties as thirtysomething marches on. He went to Detroit and Seattle, Chicago and Baltimore, the Mississippi Delta and Hoboken, New Jersey. He hit bars called the 924 Club and Rosa's and Honest? John's Bar and No Grill; he found vintage Seeburgs, sterile CD boxes, and, in one off-the-path stop, a juke operated via a jerry-rigged tape deck behind the bar.
After thousands of miles and thousands of quarters, he did find, in as unlikely a place as any, the Juke of the Covenant.
And, along with that fleeting youth, he found a piece of America's soul.
Like Route 66 or Blue Highways, Jukebox America is a song of America lost and found again; like the Beatles "Twist and Shout" or an old Four Tops record, it is a one-of-a-kind, pure driven pleasure.
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