After getting their start as a New York City art band associated with Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground began to starve NYC of live shows and, instead, perform constantly in Boston-43 times between 19, in fact. This recording was captured in Boston in 1968, which is the precise time and place my debut book, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968, is concerned with. “Sister Ray” (Live in Boston, 1968) – The Velvet Underground Walsh's Book Notes music playlist for his book Astral Weeks: In this fantastic chronicle, Ryan Walsh unearths the time and place behind the music." Down and out in Boston, he wrote one of rock’s most beloved masterworks, Astral Weeks-then blew town. "In 1968, Van Morrison was a rock & roll refugee, an Irish blues poet on the run after a bitter fling with pop stardom. Walsh's fascinating Astral Weeks is a spirited history of the recording of the Van Morrison album of the same name and late-'60s Boston. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, Lauren Groff, T.C. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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