Publisher's Synopsis
An autobiographical songbook, 700 Miles of Curves gives you insight into the rise of folk songs by revealing examples of their embryonic circumstances. These aren't folk songs, yet. The first thing polished off a folk song is the name of the author, but this is the kind of stuff of which folk songs are made. A song may have a long, varied, and tumbling career-being sung by many kinds of people for different reasons. Songs come from somewhere. They started sometime. Someone started the writing of the song, initiating it on its tenuous journey. A really good song just begs to be sung. Here are 88 original songs with guitar chords, complete text, and background notes. They chronicle a wide breadth of life situations, including kids, love, work, hitchhiking, street music, protests, life & death, and gospel music. Musicians of every stripe are invited to sing and play with these songs, and to help turn them into whatever it is they are going to be next.
