{"product_id":"sounding-for-harry-smith-by-bret-lunsford","title":"SOUNDING FOR HARRY SMITH by Bret Lunsford","description":"\u003cp\u003e220 x 260mm, 232 pages, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Hardcover, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarry Everett Smith (1923-1991) was a boyhood resident of Anacortes, Washington for ten years of the Great Depression. Sounding for Harry Smith: Early Pacific Northwest Influences is a visually compelling oral history-based biography that immerses the reader in Salish Sea traditions and discord to explore the myths of a counter-cultural shaman whose strange impacts on art, music and film resound from studies of place to beat improvisation, through brain paintings to a Grammy Award for his folk music bible, Anthology of American Folk Music (Smithsonian Folkways).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePacific Northwest musician-historian Bret Lunsford (Beat Happening\/D+) unravels a string of mysteries to reveal the avant-garde shards of a 20th century alchemist in his hometown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beautifully printed and bound 232-page hardcover book that includes chronology, selected bibliography, endnotes, maps and over 100 historic photographs within 17 substantial and hearty chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by John Szwed and Preface by Phil Elverum (Microphones, Mount Eerie)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by KNW-YR-OWN \u0026amp;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"P.W. Elverum \u0026 Sun","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56724903100802,"sku":null,"price":33.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5338\/0582\/files\/IMG_8255152.jpg?v=1782384765","url":"https:\/\/goodpress.co.uk\/products\/sounding-for-harry-smith-by-bret-lunsford","provider":"Good Press — good books \u0026 more","version":"1.0","type":"link"}