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    5 of the best new music books

    by Chris Barton, Los Angeles Times Nov 27, 2019 4 minutes

    There are as many ways to approach an artist's story as there are to compose a song. But music memoirs and biographies typically follow a template - the humble beginnings, the meteoric rise and the (possibly substance-related) fall, followed by a hard-won recovery with various star-studded encounters along the way.

    This fall, the latest crop of music biographies stands out in a crowded field for how well they find new wrinkles within that formula.

    Here are five of the best:

    "Blood" by Allison Moorer

    Moorer doesn't just explore the arc of a musician's life as much as the indelible moments that both shatter and define it. The Alabama-born singer-songwriter was 14 when her father shot and killed her mother on their lawn before

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