Florence Dore is a Nashville-born, North Carolina-based musical artist as well as Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her second album, 2022's Highways and Rocketships, was produced by Don Dixon and Mitch Easter. She is the author of Novel Sounds and coexecutive producer for the Billboard-charting compilation album Cover Charge.
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Introduction: Needles and Pens, by Florence Dore Part 1: The Inescapable Dylan 1. Let it Rock 2. The Genius and Modern Times of Bob Dylan 3. All the Poets (Musicians on Writing): An Interview with Rhiannon Giddens 4. Chronicles: Volume One (Excerpt) Part II: Rock 'N' Roll Saved My Life: Writers on Music 5. Banjo Interlude: An Idle Teen's Life Is Saved by Music 6. Tonight We Improvise: From Sag Harbor (Excerpt) 7. Ubu Lives! Remembering Punk and Its Stories 8. By Heart: From Eat the Document (Excerpt) 9. Precious Resource (Rock and Our Generation of Novelists): An Interview with Jonathan Lethem and Dana Spiotta 10. Whack Fol the Daddy-O: How I Learned to Hate Irish Music Slightly Less Part III: Rock's Literary Identity: Musicians on Literature 11. Dear Dylan: An Interview with Lucinda Williams 12. Iambic Pentameter and the Blues: An Interview with Steve Earle 13. Sir Patrick Rocks! Dragging Ancient Ballads into the Twentieth Century, and What That Can Do to Fragile Young Minds 14. Two Blue Suedes Part IV: Don't Let Anyone Write Your Story: Musings on Rock as Literature 15. When We All Get to Heaven 16. English as a Second Language 17. Cosmic Ray: How Ray Charles's "I Got a Woman" Transformed the Music of Ray Charles, Allowed Him to Keep His Band, and Created a Musical and Social Revolution 18. Ain't It Always Stephen Stills Part V: Losses and Erasures 19. Black Cowboys and Jimi Hendrix: An Interview with Dom Flemons 20. Anatomy of a Canned Heat Hit: "Let's Work Together" by Wilbert Harrison 21. John Prine (The Reluctant Genius): An Interview with Dave Jacques, Jason Wilbur, Fats Kaplin, and Pat McLaughlin 22. The Day the Live Concert Returns 23. Unknown Band on a Forgotten Stage 24. Right on Time: An Interview with Amy Helm,
Novelists, musicians, and other cultural movers and shakers muse on the intersection of literature and rock music in this rich collection of essays. Music lovers with a literary bent will find this worth tuning in to. (Publishers Weekly) Florence Dore has created an excellent collection of old and new writing that explores the convergence of rock and literature. Readers will want to take the time to slowly savor this rich gathering. (Booklist) Florence Dore's search along the seam of rock music and fiction evinces rare moments in the lives of writers and musicians, epiphanies suggesting a shared psyche of art seeking freedom, art quaking with hungers of expression that anyone who has gone stomp-down dancing in a club where the music soars will feel into the bone. (The Daily Beast)