 "Lounge:
The Essential Album Guide"
edited by Steve Knopper
Visible Ink Press, 1998
Do you crave lounge
music? You need to know all there is about lounge music? Then this is the
tome you need. It's the A to Z of swingers, cocktail lounge heroes, torch
singers, and all those modern bands inspired by lounge. This massive resource
(just under 600 pages) is meant to be a guide for all your lounge CD buying
needs. They list each performer and which discs to get, which to stay away
from, and which to search out. They also have a handy guide to tell you
who these artists were influenced by and who are influenced by them. Of
course they have listings on the bigggies--Esquivel, Martin Denny (who
actually wrote the book's forward), Les Baxter, Frankie, Dino, Sammy and
the like, but it also has a few listing that will surprise you--Alex Chilton,
Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson and Isaac Hayes to name a few. In the back
of the book, they have guides on the best lounge-esque movies, radio stations
that feature cocktail music, websites, record labels, record producers,
band members, and books and magazines. If you even wanted to drench yourself
in lounge culture, this would be the perfect diving board. One nice added
plus--the book contains an Capitol Records Ultra-Lounge sampler.
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