{"product_id":"coming-through-the-60s-william-m-king-9781777179939","title":"Coming Through the '60s: An American Rock 'n' Road Story","description":"Bill King is a musician, photo journalist, radio veteran, and author. Not a book of celebrity run-ins, it is a document of early life, ancestry, the anxiety and pressures of living with a decorated World War II veteran suffering PTSD; discovery, boyhood schemes, that first piano lesson, those early jazz concerts, education, leaving home, crossing America, homelessness, the flower generation, relationships, California, Greenwich Village, the army, and then Canada.***I dreamed of breaking free: those long drives musicians reminisced about throughout the American South. Past fields of sprawling kudzu down fog-shrouded backroads. The perfect way to decompress after a long night playing on the funk side of town. I was ready to climb on the band bus or into the back of a station wagon and begin my journey.The many one-nighters I had already played were mostly local, no more than 100 miles in all directions. I knew radio was the best company a carload of musicians could ask for to free the mind of setlists and missed opportunities with local groupies. I had already ridden in a battered station wagon, taken on road grime and patches of red clay - the windshield a graveyard of suicidal beetles, palmetto bugs, wasps, and grasshoppers. On the horizon, weeping willows near where mockingbirds eyeballed and serenaded all-night drivers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William M. King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1777179939\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781777179939\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e William M. King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d","brand":"William M. King","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43943905100031,"sku":"9781777179939","price":18.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1697fa77-e7fa-413f-bf2e-606bcd2aee7c.jpg?v=1681500689","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/coming-through-the-60s-william-m-king-9781777179939","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}