Darkness Racket and Twang Essential Listening from the Fringes of Popular and Unpopular Music

Originally published in personal journals and public websites, the pieces in this collection capture an original voice stepping beyond the veneer of rock-n-roll and and opening the doors of constant epiphany that the author experiences along the margins of popular, and more often, unpopular music. It is as much travel writing, documenting the psychic terrain of the music-obsessed, as it is criticism. Alex V. Cook, along with being a family man, lapsed painter and ardent mediocre guitarist, is a writer living and working in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His work can be found in a slew of regional magazines and a growing trickle of national ones. This is his first book.Cook, Alex V. is the author of 'Darkness Racket and Twang Essential Listening from the Fringes of Popular and Unpopular Music' with ISBN 9780977684922 and ISBN 097768492X.