City of dreams. Introduction -- Peace through music -- The blacklist -- Sweet home California -- The house on Seventh Street -- East meets West -- Revelations -- Gravy, grapefruit, and the big green chair -- Freight train, freight train -- The cat's pajamas -- Tuned in, dropped out -- Looking for Jimi -- Demon rum -- Single mom -- I walk into the rising sun -- City of dreams.
Summary:
Always a Song is a collection of stories from singer and songwriter Ellen Harper folk matriarch and mother to the Grammy-winning musician Ben Harper. Harper shares vivid memories of growing up in Los Angeles through the 1960s among famous and small-town musicians, raising Ben, and the historic Folk Music Center. This beautifully written memoir includes stories of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, The New Lost City Ramblers, Doc Watson, and many more.
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