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Longtime Rolling Stone and NPR contributor Moon has a 1007-page Bucket List for music fans: 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die. The list is debatable, of course, but its reach is wide, covering virtually all genres of music. Presented alphabetically, it contains in-depth evaluations of each artist's best recordings, ready-made to provoke an argument. The Beatles rate six albums, for instance, but the Rolling Stones only two. Yet of the Stones' Exile on Main Street, Moon writes "Throughout its four gloriously ragged LP sides, the Stones appear not as rock stars but as scrappers, tearing through mean old blues tunes and throwaway two-chord riffs...The result: one of the most intense studio albums in rock history." Let the arguments fly at Moon's Nashville book signing.
Mon., Nov. 17, 7 p.m., 2008
Mon., Nov. 17, 7 p.m., 2008
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