Book event!

One of my favorite music writers, Elijah Wald, is going to be speaking (and playing the guitar) at Black Oak Books in Berkeley tonight at 7:30. Tomorrow he will be in City Lights Books in San Francisco at 7. For those of you outside the Bay Area, here is his schedule. I first got to know Elijah because he wrote the book for the Arhoolie Records' 40th Anniversary Collection. I reviewed his Narcocorrido book on Rootsworld, and highly recommend him. This current tour is for his latest book, which is on the myths of the blues.

I have heard some of the stuff that he has put in the book, and it is all very fascinating. Also, Elijah is an interesting character, a great raconteur and definitely worth checking out.