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This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

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Availability:In StockContributor:John Darnielle, John KeoghPublish date:2025-12-02Pages:560
Languages:EnglishPublisher:MCDISBN-13:9780374606497ISBN-10:374606498UPC:9780374606497Book Category:Music, PoetryBook Subcategory:Lyrics, Genres & Styles, AmericanBook Topic:RockSize:9.25 x 6.35 x 1.80 inchesWeight:1.71Product ID:SCMAAEYGJ4

Collected and annotated lyrics from one of music's most visionary bards, John Darnielle.

A work of rapturous beauty, This Year: 365 Songs Annotated celebrates the creative life and the musical genius of John Darnielle through his most meaningful songs.

From his early days recording on a boom box, through the evolution of the Mountain Goats from a solo project to a full band, to his continued influence on indie music, This Year pairs the definitive texts of 365 John Darnielle songs with first-person commentaries on his life and music. These commentaries reveal how the songs came to be and the people who inspired them: his family and friends; his wife, Lalitree Darnielle; his longtime collaborator, Peter Hughes; and even his literary heroes, among many others. Here are the origins of "This Year," "No Children," "The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton," and "Up the Wolves," as well as Darnielle's literary influences, including Flannery O'Connor, Jorge Luis Borges, and Stephen King.

This Year, spanning decades, becomes the definitive literary record of one of the greatest songwriters and musical creative forces of all time.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:MCDISBN-13:9780374606497ISBN-10:374606498UPC:9780374606497Book Category:Music, PoetryBook Subcategory:Lyrics, Genres & Styles, AmericanBook Topic:RockSize:9.25 x 6.35 x 1.80 inchesWeight:1.71Product ID:SCMAAEYGJ4
John Darnielle is the author of the novels Devil House, Universal Harvester, and Wolf in White Van, all three New York Times bestsellers. Wolf in White Van was a National Book Award nominee and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction. Universal Harvester was a finalist for the Locus Award. Dwight Garner wrote in the New York Times that Devil House is "never quite the book you think it is. It's better." Darnielle lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and sons when he's not on the road touring with his band the Mountain Goats.
Publisher: MCD

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John Darnielle, John Keogh

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John Darnielle

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