Gary Graff is an award-winning music journalist based in Detroit. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Features Syndicate, Billboard, UPI, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Revolver, and other publications, as well as to radio stations in Detroit and Milwaukee. He is the editor of The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen A to E to Z and the series editor of the MusicHound Essential Album Guides. He lives in Beverly Hills, Michigan.Daniel Durchholz is co-editor of MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide and co-author of Neil Young: Long May You Run. He has written for Rolling Stone, Billboard, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Post. He lives in Wildwood, Missouri. Gary Graff is an award-winning music journalist and a regular contributor to the New York Times Features Syndicate, Billboard, Revolver, and other publications, as well as radio stations in Detroit and Milwaukee. He is the co-author of Neil Young: Long May You Run. playitallnightlong.blogspot.comtwitter.com/GraffonMusic
Thrasher's Wheat"Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated
History by veteran rock journalists Daniel Durchholz and Gary Graff
is -- without a doubt -- pretty much of an essential item for the
Neil Young library. The first impression one gets from leafing
through the pages is the high quality of the printing and
presentation by the publisher Voyageur Press. It's a coffee table
type of book with 224 large pages, nice grade paper stock, and fine
reproductions of photos and memorablia. It would seem that for even
those Neil fans who've read everything from Jimmy McDonough's
Shakey: A Neil Young Biography to the Neil Young Archives book will
find something new and eye catching in The Illustrated
History....the book will certainly hold a lot of surprises and
revelations for the more casual fan. In fact this is the type of
book you hand someone who says "I just don't get Neil Young."
Booklist"Voyageur Press books always look like a million bucks, and
this coffee-table career biography of enduring sixties rock star
Young is no exception. Even the dullest old snap shot of kid Neil's
family or his first band lushly glows from matte pages as if
printed on silk. And those pages! Seldom allowed to be merely
white, they are colored and loosely patterned when not entirely
filled by a photo. As rock photo books emphasizing the subject, not
the photographer(s), go, this is a honey...scads will love browsing
it."
Maxim.comThis 224-page tome, painstakingly assembled by rock
journalists Daniel Durchholz and Gary Graff, compiles tons of
photos (many never before seen) and detailed insights on grunge
godfather Neil Young's seven-decade spanning career. From his
earliest days with the Mynah Birds (a band that also featured Rick
James!), to his hit-making days with Buffalo Springfield and
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, to his genre-hopping solo works, to
his current status as an activist and vital living legend (you can
catch him on tour all summer long), Long May You Run leaves no
stone (or riff) unturned. The Huffington PostFlipping through Long
May You Run: The Illustrated History -- a picture perfect
documentation of Neil Young's musical story and beyond -- is the
equivalent of listening to his music in an altered state. At times,
it can be overwhelming. Daniel Durchholz and Gary Graff's love of
Young as a person and his cultural contributions is the force of
nature behind LMYR's lush 224 pages, the team effectively creating
one of the best coffee table books ever. You want rare and vintage
photos? Check. Reproductions of classic posters and various
memorabilia? Check. A precise discography that includes 41 studio
and 6 live albums, plus discussions of Young's music by his
contemporaries and notable connoisseurs? Of course, it's all here.
Durchholz and Graff's hard cover documentary anthologizes virtually
every important moment from Neil Young's Buffalo Springfield tenure
(actually, earlier) through his days with Crosby, Stills, Nash &
Young, his solo career, and beyond....if you've forgotten any of
the reasons why he remains this important an icon, check out
virtually any page of LMYR for your mandatory memory jog as you
savor each visual of this perfect tutorial on more than 40 years of
Young's long run. Guitar AficionadoBilled as an illustrated
history, this oversized tome packs more than 400 striking images
into its 224 pages. Written and compiled by rock journalists Daniel
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