That certain cultural “outsiders,” including LGBT people, feel an affinity with Irony is seen as uncool, and I reject that. We’re in an age where enjoying certain kinds of music without JM: Karen’s voice was very sincere, unaffected, andĭevoid of irony. And also the producers of the 1994 tribute album, If I Were a Carpenter. Levitin, who’s written numerous best-selling books, like This is Your Brain We’ve got Tom Nolan, who wrote for Rolling Stone back in the 70s, and wrote liner notes for some Carpenters albums. Spoken about the Carpenters in the past, or musicians who have credited theĬarpenters or Karen Carpenter as an inspiration. To select the commentators, I contacted people who have New book is a celebration of both the music and those images. It, so I held onto them, hoping I could someday use them in another way. I hadĬome across so many photographs in image archives that I wasn’t able to use for RS: Ever since Little Girl Blue came out inĢ010, there has been a new wave of interest, partly spurred by that book. How did you get the idea, and how did you pick the As a huge Carpentersįan, I kept wanting to jump in on the discussion, and the pictures areĪbsolutely gorgeous. His new book, Carpenters: An Illustrated Discography Discography (192 pp., Mascot Books), features a team of authors, musicians, journalists, and others discussing the Carpenters’ music and legacy, and includes over 200 images (many never before seen) of the 1970s brother-sister duo. Little Girl Blue, his widely acclaimed biography of Karen Carpenter, was published in 2010. Schmidt, author, and editor of various books on popular 20 th-century American singers. Carpenters: An Illustrated Discography Cover by Randy L.
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