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AUSTIN HEALING

Oliver Gray

THIS BOOK IS OUT OF PRINT AND NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

The reviews were very kind:

“Lovers of the Americana genre will wallow in this as if in a warm bath.” – Record Collector

“A rollicking good read .” – Americana-UK

“Awe-inspiring … Unique and heart-warming.”- Louder Than War

Oliver Gray’s memoir of twenty years of misadventures at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas.

“What is it REALLY like?” That’s the question my friends ask me about SXSW. 

“It’s impossible to describe”, is always my answer.

Not that that has stopped me from trying to do just that, in twenty years’ worth of reviews for seven different magazines. This book draws all those articles together and adds a bit of history, some extra annotations, a bunch of ‘venue focuses’ and rather too many admissions of inadequacy and vulnerability.

The book also describes a unique and special friendship that has been sustained throughout two decades of music appreciation.



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When American roots musician Corey Zander sets out on his first UK tour, things start badly and rapidly get worse. Not even his drug-strewn rock and roll past could prepare him for the violence of his reception in provincial England. Oliver Gray’s first foray into fiction places love, crime and travel in an authentic context of rock history.

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Banjo On My Knee

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Part travelogue, part guide book, part music memoir but mainly observational nonsense – Banjo On My Knee shows you how to survive a three-week journey through the music of America’s South and avoid some of the pitfalls of US travel.

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