The Sound of Seattle - 101 Songs that Shaped a City. Foreword by Mike McCready
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Amazon USA .. https://a.co/d/0xTqmbN
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Overview
This rockin' paperback explores the musical evolution of Seattle through the lens of 101 songs spanning 80 years, examining the most prominent and important music and musicians to come out of our corner of the country, with a foreword by Pearl Jam legend Mike McCready.
KEXP DJ and musician Eva Walker and music writer Jake Uitti take readers on a musical journey, exploring the songs and artists instrumental to developing the "Seattle sound." The authors have curated the ultimate playlist for the Emerald City. It all begins in 1942 when Washington-born Bing Crosby records what will become the world's bestselling single of all time, "White Christmas." From there, readers will delight in a sensory trip through jazz, rock, punk, riot grrrl, pop, rap, grunge, indie, emo, and more, deepening their knowledge and love of the songs that shaped Seattle, and in the process, each of us.
Both a love letter and love song to the city, The Sound of Seattle is a visual guide organized by decade, with seminal songs profiled and paired with inventive design reminiscent of a favorite zine or concert poster. Includes interviews with Seattle legends like Heart's Nancy Wilson, as well as sidebars showcasing musical landmarks throughout the city.
How has the Emerald City’s musical output changed and evolved? What is the connective tissue between Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, and Kenny G? Between Melvins, Sleater-Kinney, and Foo Fighters? Between Sir Mix-a-Lot, Macklemore, and Travis Thompson? We're gonna find out!
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Read an excerpt over @ https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C39654640
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Eva Walker and I will be talking about our new music book The Sound of Seattle at Third Place Books in Seward Park on Aug 29 at 7 pm - check it out and links in comments.
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...“Thank you Eva and Jake for writing this informative and heartfelt book about a subject close to my heart, the music culture of the Pacific Northwest.”
—Matt Cameron, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame drummer
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About the Author
Eva Walker was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She is the frontwoman and principal songwriter of the acclaimed local rock band, The Black Tones, which has opened for Mavis Staples, Death Cab for Cutie, Weezer, and played major shows at the Showbox and the Paramount Theatre. She has recorded songs with Mike McCready and released songs with Sub Pop Records. A popular DJ on KEXP, Eva currently hosts the Early on KEXP show. She produced The Arts Hour in Seattle for the BBC, which featured Grammy nominee Hollis Wong-Wear and a number of other local standouts. She’s also been featured in music videos from Odesza and Macklemore.
Jake Uitti’s work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Interview Magazine, Spin, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, The Seattle Times, and many more. Today, Jake is a staff writer at American Songwriter Magazine, where he’s chit-chatted with big names like Lady Gaga, Jennifer Hudson, Common Sense, Garth Brooks, Ryan Lewis, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Chris Ballew, Mike McCready, Ben Gibbard, and hundreds more. In other freelance capacities, Jake has interviewed Macklemore, Brandi Carlile, Dave Matthews, Krist Novoselic, and others. He is the author of Northwest Know-How: Beer (Sasquatch Books) as well as Muggsy Bogues: The Godfather of Smallball, a memoir about the NBA star.
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Well you may have heard, and it’s about time I post about it, my lovely husband Jake Uitti and I wrote a book together! Yes we did! And it covers Seattle music in 101 songs throughout the years starting in the 1940s into 2023. This book is both entertainment AND educational, as in you’ll see some of your favorite bands and notice a few maybe missing because we wanted to introduce you to some new information, artists and songs you may have not known existed in the area and we only had 101 spots. Our dear friends contributed to the book with a foreword by Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), decade intros by Nancy Wilson (Heart), Sir Mix-a-Lot, Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) and others, a note on the significance of Garfield High School by Ishmael Butler, hotspots, fun facts and of course the 101 entries, everything from jazz to grunge, from electronic to steampunk, pop to rock and more.Thank you to the Seattle Times for mentioning our book (releasing on our 4 year wedding anniversary) as one that will be “..the most talked about local books of the year.”
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..I'm Reading about us (Tina Bell & Bam Bam) in my brand new copy of THE SOUND OF SEATTLE - 101 SONGS THAT SHAPED A CITY. Quite an honor to be featured in a book celebrating Seattle music along with Bing Crosby, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Quincy Jones, Soundgarden, Jack Endino, Melvins, U-Men, Alice in Chains, Sonics, Bikini Kill, Foo Fighters, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Ray Charles, Death Cab For Cutie, Brandi Carlile, Sleater-Kinney...THE SOUND OF SEATTLE - 101 SONGS THAT SHAPED A CITY.By Eva Walker and Jacob Uitti. Foreword by Mike McCready.Published by Sasquatch Books. Available Aug 20, 2024.Preorder now from Penguin Random House, Amazon, Barnes & Noble...
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Eva Walker’s (KEXP) and Jake Uitti’s rockin’ paperback features a foreword by Mike McCready.
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Available next Tuesday.
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Looks great!Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; Phila, PA 10/21/13; Phila, PA 10/22/13; Baltimore Arena 10/27/13; Phila, PA 4/28/16; Phila, PA 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22; Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; Phila, PA 9/7/24; Phila, PA 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24; Pittsburgh 5/16/25; Pittsburgh 5/18/25
Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/160 -
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Available in stores tomorrow.0
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KEXP DJ’s new book lists 101 songs that make up ‘The Sound of Seattle’
Seattleites will have heard of many of these bands, but not all of them. Deems Tsutakawa’s “Tough Tofu,” for example, is a great deep cut. Were there any artists, especially older ones, that you were really proud to include?
Walker: That’s one of the goals of the book. It’s entertaining but it’s also education. Some of your favorites are there; Nirvana, Pearl Jam, so on. It’s educational because there are lesser-known people on the list that you should know about, like Deems, Vitamin D, Emerald Street Boys. I grew up listening to Deems. I actually graduated from high school with his nephew. That song, “Tough Tofu,” came on all the time on 98.9 Smooth Jazz. And I was really excited to include Dave Lewis in here and to dig into his catalog. I love, love, love organ music.
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