Re: (OT?) Novels

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bogus address 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> > Recently I've read two novels ("Rotter's club" and "High fidelity")
> > in which music is a protagonist; but not folk music. I wonder if
> > there are novels talking about young people who love Martin Carthy,
> > or about people who hitch-hike to go to a concert of Ray Fisher or
> > don't sleep because they don't understand why Bandoggs made only
> > one album (Why Bandoggs made only one album???) or about a McDonald's
> > waiter  who works hard only to buy Peter Bellamy's "Oak, ash and
> > thorn".  Who knows if it exists, it might even be that it has been
> > translated in Italian....
>
> Brian McNeill's "The Busker" is by a very fine folk musician and the
> title suggests it might be about what he knows best - I haven't got
> round to reading it yet.

It's excellent - a thriller with musical overtones - and obviously comes 
from his many years of skulking round Europe - instrument in hand. The 
authenticity shines through

Jacey
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