TWO OF MY VINTAGE MUSIC BOOKS NOW ON AUDIBLE
I’ve partnered with Audibile Books to release many of non-fiction books as well as several of my novels as audio books.
B-BOYS, BUPPIES, BAPS & BOHOS: Notes on Post-Soul Culture is my first collection of articles, most of them from the Village Voice, where I free-lanced music pieces and wrote a column called Native Son in the late ’80s into the ’90s. Hip-hop, R&B, the crack era, the black film boom, gangs, politics and ethnic tension are among the topics covered in this books. There’s also a time-line of Post-Soul Culture that opens the collection.
In the early ’90s I began writing novels. The first was a bestseller titled Urban Romance. The follow up was called SEDUCED: Life and Times of a One Hit Wonder. It tells the story of the ups and downs of a songwriter who briefly taste fame. Its full of observations and characters based on the men and women I encountered covering music for all of the ’80s for Billboard.
Both these titles, and many others, are now available for rent or purchase as audio books via Audible.