REVIEW
“Holy hell, the 1970s.”
James Sullivan’s review in The Chronicle began: “Holy hell, the 1970s. If you lived through them, you know a few things: They were grimy and deafening. They were anything-goes, intoxicant-wise. And they had no filter. If you’re too young to have experienced that decade but find yourself curious about its bombed-out cities, the rise of punk rock and the national ‘malaise,’ you could do much worse than to start with Robert Duncan’s debut novel, Loudmouth.”
high praise
Craig Finn on Loudmouth
Ex-Minnesotans backstage at Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 2010
“A loud and brash trip that takes you through the hellish halls of childhood and adolescence before delivering you to the sweet salvation of rock and roll... Funny, tender, and very very honest. Read this immediately if you like truth, drugs, generation gaps, guitars, and lifelong quests for freedom and kicks. ” — Craig Finn of The Hold Steady
more praise
Joel Gion of Brian Jonestown Massacre on Loudmouth
“A sonic wail of a tale about the youthful beginnings of one of the Mount Rushmore ‘heads’ of rock ‘n’ roll journalism. I loved it.” — Joel Gion, singer, songwriter, tambourinist, legend, BJM
still more
Creem’s Jaan Uhelszki on Loudmouth
“In prose that’s beautiful, when it’s not hilarious, this noisy, nostalgic novel tells how an excitable boy from a darkly conservative family survived childhood and then rock ’n’ roll. It’s a wild ride with some amazing characters — including a few you might recognize — and I’m in awe.” — Jaan Uhelszki, Creem writer, editor, doc producer (Photo by JoAnn Uhelszki.)
Author’s solemn Guarantee:
“Some of it is factual. All of it is true.”
