You're listening to All the Backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host Kelly Jensen, this is the January 13, 2023 edition and I'm really excited

to dig in this week, as I've picked a theme that goes along with one of my own New Year's

goals.

I've been in a music rut for a few years now and it's not that I'm not listening to

great music because I am.

Rather, the passionate ones had for everything music has kind of fallen away.

I used to host a radio show in college and I'd had my sights set on maybe working in

the industry someday.

That second part obviously didn't happen, but that first part introduced me to a lot

of new music and I don't know if I've listened to new to me music in a long time.

So I'm making your habit of listening to at least one new album a week in 2023 because

I want to expand my listening and because I've read so much great music nonfiction in

the last few years that I've just felt this spark.

So that all said, something interesting I noticed as I was making notes to this episode

is that my music nonfiction reading is very male.

It's diverse, which is great, but there are surprisingly few women writing about music

from a really broad perspective.

There are several who dig into specific artists and of course there are plenty of great

memoirs and biographies, but I wanted to offer up books that gave a nice breadth of music

history.

So you're going to hear about in this episode one of my all-time favorite nonfiction

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