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How to Play the Guitar and Y
- Words + Music | Vol. 21
- Narrated by: Elvis Costello
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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Publisher's Summary
“This isn't strictly speaking an instructional manual, but a work of comedic philosophy.”
Elvis Costello - songwriter, singer, author, and Fender Jazzmaster known to his admirers as “The Little Hands of Concrete” - spins his tale with wit, grit, and spit to spare.
How to Play the Guitar and Y, Costello’s new entry into Audible’s Words + Music series, combines recitation, impersonation, and musical illustration to show you how to turn a three-chord trick into a four-chord caper and let your curiosity take you where it will.
Part madcap musical method, part comic chronicle, How to Play the Guitar and Y is accompanied by the author throughout on a number of different instruments with his 10 wandering fingers.
So gather round your favorite listening device to hear a storyteller and musician at his most captivating as he reminds you not to be afraid to fail and to never forget to play.
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- Sheena Henderson
- 2023-08-20
Pretty much what I would have expected
Entertaining and enjoyable to listen to. Very different from the others I've listened to in this series, but that's hardly surprising!
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- Tyler Rendek
- 2023-11-10
Entertaining as always
Reminds me that I’m in my sixties and and there is a lot more music to listen to - old and new!
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- David White
- 2021-11-03
What I would've expected from Mr Costello.
Listened to his interview on Conan's podcast so thought to check it out. Brilliant, eloquent, humorous and inspirational. Will listen again with a guitar... and dictionary.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-07-31
Love and work
I don’t play guitar but this memoir and musical history may inspire me, at 70+, to try to learn.
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