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Charlie Peacock on His Memoir, ‘Roots and Rhythm,’ Going From Pop Aspirant to Producer, and Maintaining a Spiritual Path in a Cutthroat Business
Charlie Peacock talks about his memoir, 'Roots & Rhythm,' and a career that includes a career in alt-rock, CCM, jazz and even making music for Meta.
As fans of his prose might expect, it’s hardly just a career overview but also a spiritual memoir, as well as a book that explores the effects of geography and ancestry and of loving Kerouac, Coltrane and Jesus in… well, not quite equal measure, but close enough for rock ‘n’ roll and for a tome that means to tie together a lot of loose, literarily minded threads. I think this is why Mark Twain said “I’ll never write my life story, because I can’t be honest enough.” It’s super difficult to put any part of your own failures out there, because you’re so oriented to presenting your best self, and literature doesn’t work well that way. It did sound lonely, as you tell the story of sitting there by yourself in the studio, trying to piece together a sophomore album out of the remnants of the early sessions after they had stopped talking with one another and both basically quit working on it, leaving you to your own devices.
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