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Table of Contents

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Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright

Praise

Introduction

1 Expecting to Fly: Byrdsong and the California Dream

I: Impossible Dreamers

II: Claims to Fame

III: So You Want to Be a Rock ’n’ Roll Star

2 Back to the Garden: Getting It Together in the Country

I: Little Village

II: Back Porch Majority

III: Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon

IV: Human Highway

3 Out of the City: New Kids in Town

I: A New Home in the Sun

II: Outside of a Small Circle of Friends

III: Both Sides, Then

IV: The Elf on Roller Skates

4 Horses, Kids, Forgotten Women: Are You Ready for Country Rock?

I: Hand Sown…Home Grown

II: Wheatstraw Sweet

III: Rural Free Delivery

IV: Big Tit Sue and Bigger Tit Sue

5 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: Escape from Sin City

I: Home Is What Makes You Happy

II: Ain’t No One for to Give You No Name

III: Free My Gypsy Soul

IV: The Straight Guy

V: Sympathy for the Devil

6 Let It Be Written, Let It Be Sung: A Case of Me

I: Music from Big Ego

II: Old Ladies of the Canyon

III: Me, Myself and I

IV: All We Are Saying Is Give Smack a Chance

V: You Probably Think This Song Is About You

7 Sittin’ In: With a Little Help from Our Friends

I: Degrees of Separation

II: Play It as It Lays

III: ‘WHO IS DAVID GEFFEN AND WHY IS HE SAYING THOSE TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT ME?’

IV: Don’t Even Try to Understand

V: Exile on Sunset Boulevard

8 Paradise and Lunch: The Machinery vs. the Popular Song

I: Fool’s Gold

II: Song Power

III: On the Rox

IV: Postcards from Hollywood

9 I Hate Them Worse than Lepers: After the Thrill Is Gone

I: Show Biz Kids

II: Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow

III: The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get

IV: Paradise in Trouble

10 Go Your Own Way: Los Angeles in the Long Run

I: You’ll Never Eat Pussy in This Town Again

II: Bombs Away, Dream Babies

III: End of the Innocents

Coda Like a Setting Sun

Appendix Mellow Gold: The Tape from California

Notes

Further Reading

References

Index

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