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Roots and Rhythm: A Life in Music

Roots and Rhythm: A Life in Music

Peacock, Charlie

Hardcover

Entertainment & Performing ArtsMusiciansChristian Music

Publisher Price: $32.99

ISBN10: 0802884377
ISBN13: 9780802884374
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: Feb 4 2025
Pages: 389
Weight: 1.41
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.58
Language: English
A beautifully crafted memoir unveiling the ancestral, musical, and spiritual roots of Grammy Award-winning music producer Charlie Peacock.

In this artful memoir, Grammy Award-winning music producer Charlie Peacock flexes his literary chops and gives readers the gritty backstage stories they crave: biographical anecdotes, geeky trivia, and how the hits were written and recorded (from jazz to rock and pop). Threaded throughout is Peacock's unique ancestral and spiritual story--the roots. Like Coltrane, Dylan, and Bono before him, Peacock reveals a Christ-affection while refusing genres too small for his music.

Peacock, the great-grandson of a Louisiana fiddler, is an American musical polymath. He's been the young jazz musician sitting at the feet of trumpeter Eddie Henderson and pianist Herbie Hancock; the singer-songwriter plucked from the Northern California punk/pop underground by legendary impresarios Bill Graham and Chris Blackwell; a pioneering, innovative contributor to the nascent rise of gospel rock in the 1980s; and the genre-busting producer behind such diverse artists as Al Green, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Chris Cornell, Audio Adrenaline, The Civil Wars, Switchfoot, Turtle Island Quartet, and John Patitucci.

Roots and Rhythm includes Peacock's seminal NorCal days, the story of indie labels Exit and re: think, his first decade as a Nashville producer (1989-1999), and his essential role in the 21st-century folk/Americana boom (The Civil Wars, Holly Williams, The Lone Bellow). While his exploits and achievements grace the book (including the story of Amy Grant's Every Heartbeat and the evergreen In the Light), Peacock is hardly the only character. Instead, he writes as a Joan Didion-style essayist, weaving together a quintessential American story. Beat poet Gary Snyder, evangelist Billy Graham, producer T Bone Burnett, saxophonist Wayne Shorter, and writers Wendell Berry and Isabel Wilkerson all appear in this sweeping tale where ancestry, migration, teenage love, Jesus, and Miles Davis collide.

The book is an invitation to all, including aspiring musicians: embrace the roots and rhythm of our own lives, letting the music and God's insistent love lead us to gratitude and wonder.

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