Advance praise
“Loudmouth is, as advertised, 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 music and all that rides alongside it. The story is majorly compelling — funny, tender, and very very honest. Read this book immediately if you like truth, drugs, generation gaps, guitars, and lifelong quests for freedom and kicks.”
— Craig Finn, The Hold Steady
“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, Brian Jonestown Massacre
“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, former Creem editor; writer, producer of Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
“This picaresque, coming-of-age novel, about a boy who looks for answers in rock ‘n’ roll, but finds them in the love of an extraordinary woman, is sad, serious, funny and, in the end, ridiculously moving.”
— Sylvie Simmons, New York Times bestselling author of Face It: Debbie Harry; Too Weird For Ziggy; and Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes
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