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Welcome to the official website of record producer and writer Joe Boyd.White Bicycles now available in Kindle edition! The Incredible String Band's first four albums have been reissued. Read a Review from Shindig! Magazine CD versions will also be remastered. The downloadable albums are not currently remastered but will be soon... REM's Fables of the Reconstruction reissued and remastered. Interview with B92 Radio in Belgrade I have always admired the courage represented by B92 Radio in Belgrade, who provided a creative opposition during the dark Milosovic years in Serbia. I was pleased and proud to do an interview with them - which is transcribed here in Serbian. You can also listen to the radio interview in English New White Bicycles Chapter During the final edit, I dropped a chapter from White Bicycles. It didn't really fit into the flow of the book, being about the events surrounding the making of the film "Scandal", which I produced in 1988 (but which was about the Sixties, which was why I wrote the chapter in the first place). Taken out of the context of the book, it still makes a good yarn, so consider it a 'bonus track' to White Bicycles, available only online! A Celebration of Kate McGarrigleLives That Touched Mine - Joe Boyd Newsletter April 10 A tribute concert was held for Kate as part of Richard Thompson's Meltdown Festival featuring Anna McGarrigle, Martha and Rufus Wainwright, Linda and Richard Thompson, Emmylou Harris. Concert Reviews Recent Events: Watch videos of the concert in Birmingham Town Hall Way to Blue - The Songs Of Nick Drake The Witchseason Weekend at the Barbican celebrated the music of Fairport Convention and the Incredible String Band. Read a review - Very Cellular Songs Here's a link to a piece from Joe's home-town newspaper Town Topics....
Robert Kirby Nick Drake's string arranger, Robert Kirby, died in October. He had conducted his original string arrangements for Nick last May in our tribute concert in Birmingham. The strings sounded glorious and he had a wonderful time. He was so looking forward to the concerts coming up in January (see above) and all of us are saddened by his death. It was a pleasure and a privilege to work with him. Carthage Music: I am still dabbling in the music business as a partner in Carthage, a music publishing company. Artists include Ivo Papasov, Chango Spasiuk and Tony Allen. Click here for Carthage Music News Newsletters: Read Joe's Newsletters for news on Upcoming Events as well as reports on musical and other activities he has been involved with over the past few months
International News
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White Bicycles: Making Music in the the 1960s. ReviewsNew Reviews from Germany US Reviews "The simple brilliance of... an irresistible tale. Boyd's wit and candor are rare enough, but what truly makes his writing stand out are his insights into an era when rock 'n' roll still seemed exciting and strange." "Boyd tells...this thoroughly entertaining memoir....with the kind of tender precision that raises 'White Bicycles' far above the ordinary rock bio and into the realm of valuable cultural commentary." "One of the most balanced and engaging look-backs of the '60s yet" NY DAILY NEWS "A deliciously detailed memoir." "It's an extraordinarily entertaining book; Boyd pulls from a bottomless bag of great stories, and his understated way with a punchline catches you by surprise. The result is a rock memoir marked by the drollery of an old-fashioned show-biz memoir." "Read it!" |
Compilation wins Mojo Award!White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s - The Joe Boyd Story Track Listing:
UK Reviews "One of the most lucid and insightful music autobiographies I've read. Captures evanescent history with remarkable clarity (and) has enough of a grasp of larger issues - historical, philosophical, psychological - to be of interest to readers unfamiliar with the records Boyd produced." "Joe Boyd's memoir of his musical adventures is as acute and natural-sounding as his record productions. White Bicycles is as good an adjunct to great popular music as any that's been written." "What a wonderful book! I was so engrossed I missed my train station. A gripping piece of social history and the best book about music I've read in years." "Terrific book. The stories he tells are so enthralling and his sense of the period and the characters are so vivid..this engaging and readable book is an important addition to the history of its time." |