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Long Promised Road
"The story of the youngest of the three Wilson brothers, a consummate musician and singer and a natural peacemaker"--Back cover.
Let's Talk About Love
A revised, expanded edition of Carl Wilson's beloved book Let's Talk About Love - now including essays from a host of writers and cultural critics with a new afterword by the author.
Long Promised Road
No life in popular music touched on as many major musical milestones as that of The Beach Boys' Carl Wilson. While he is often unjustly overlooked as a mere adjunct to his more famous brothers Brian and Dennis, Carl was a major international rock star from his early teens. The proud owner of one of the greatest voices in popular music--one that graced some of the most important records of the pop era, including 'God Only Knows' and 'Good Vibrations'--Wilson was also one of the first musicians to bring the electric guitar to the forefront of rock'n'roll. His musical skills provided The Beach Boys' entree into the music business, from which he then stewarded their onstage journey through the ups and downs of the 60s to their comeback in the 70s and into the role of 'America's band' in the 80s. Along the way, Carl quietly endured his own battles with obesity, divorce, substance abuse, and ultimately terminal cancer, all the while working to protect his family's business and legacy. This major new biography reveals the true story of modern rock'n'roll, lived from the center of the most important decades of popular music.
Her Purse Smelled Like Juicy Fruit
Begun as his residency project at the Yaddo artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, artist Carl Wilson recalls the life of his mother, Louise Wilson, with heartfelt candor, poignancy, and humor. Spun from humble beginnings in 1960s Detroit, Wilson's prose and linocut prints will register with all who lovingly look back at their upbringing and the women who raised them.
Let's Talk about Love
"Non-fans regard Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred - with most critics and committed music fans taking pleasure (or at least geeky solace) in their lofty contempt. This book documents Carl Wilson's brave and unprecedented year-long quest to find his inner Dion fan, and explores how we define ourselves in the light of what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Catch a Wave
Now the subject of the movie Love & Mercy, starring John Cusack! Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, along with Mike Love and Al Jardine--better known as the Beach Boys--rocketed out of a working-class Los Angeles suburb in the early sixties, and their sun-and-surf sound captured the imagination of kids across the world. In a few short years, they rode the wave all the way to the top, standing with the Beatles as one of the world's biggest bands. Despite their utopian visions, infectious hooks, and stunning harmonies, the Beach Boys were beset by drug abuse, jealousy, and terrifying mental illness. In Catch a Wave, Peter Ames Carlin pulls back the curtain on Brian Wilson, one of popular music's most revered luminaries, as well as its biggest mystery. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and never-before heard studio recordings, Carlin follows the Beach Boys from their earliest days through Brian's deepening emotional problems to his triumphant re-emergence with the release of Smile, the legendarily unreleased album he had originally shelved.
Menifee's Mark
This colorful and illuminating catalog for the exhibition "Menifee's Mark: The Art of Carl Wilson" includes five essays, fifty-three reproductions and ten photographs that celebrate the life and art of Carl Menifee Wilson. The exhibition took place February 1-26, 2010 at Feldman-Horn Gallery at Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood, California, where Wilson taught for 36 years. His paintings, prints and mixed-media works explore an abstract vocabulary of lines, shapes and color. Carl Menifee Wilson was born November 8, 1939 in Long Beach, California and raised in Garden Grove. Wilson was a descendent of gold prospector Luther Menifee Wilson for whom California's Menifee Valley is named....
The Blue Moment
History.
Gricing
Railways and train spotters Jim, but not as we know them. An antidote to bucolic railway rambles, sacred cows served up as mince 'n' tatties. From the railway sublime to the railway as a whole sewer full of snouts - Gricing is not a rose tinted tale written by an old engineman. Poets, vicars, villains, folk songs about runaway trains and railway heroes, the 6.05 special, railway children, smoke at 1000 a puff, the Maginot line, and Chattanooga Choo-choo, room for them all, and more, in this personal view of the railway and its influence on, culture, language, and modern life. Connections, which ones we make and the ones we don't, trains of thought trundling across the last 200 years of railway landscape, culture, and society - and over 100 lovely photos of engines great and small on the main lines and branch lines of our railway network and heritage railways."
