Music Everywhere The Rock and Roll Roots of a Small Southern Town Marty Jourard (University Press of Florida)
I have had the
same argument with various and sundry self-proclaimed musi- cologists for well over
20 years now. When discussing the niche sub- category known as Southern Rock, I always list Tom Petty as a member. Of course, nine out of ten disagree with me, some of them quite passionately. He is a Los Angeles rocker! They might say. Or the Heartbreak- ers are a California band!Well, it depends on your perspective. Tom Petty came from Gainsville, Florida. Before he had the Heart- breakers, he was in a decidedly Southern Rock band called Mudcrunch. Perhaps these friends and colleagues simply need to read Music Everywhere. I did, and I thoroughly
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enjoyed it. The modest southern town of
Gainesville not only gave us Mr. Petty, but a plethora of other musical greats emerged from the Florida town during toe ten-year pe- riod between 1965-1975. The “golden decade” of Gainesville music. Author Marty Jourard, who I inciden-
tally loved as a member of the ‘80s new wave band the Motels, lived in Gainesville between 1958 and 1976. But during the golden decade, he played in a band called Road Turkey and frequently shared the stage with Mudcrutch. It was a formative time for the counter-
culture in Gainesville that would yield several Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, among them Petty, Stephen Stills, and both Don Felder and Bernie Leadon of the Eagles. The town was filled with young musicians who played at frat parties, topless clubs and hole in the wall bars, and hung out on Saturday at Lipham’s Music Store. According to the author, Gainesville be-
came a mecca for music mostly because of the cities staunch support of the music. Unfortu- nately, the same cannot be said about many a southern town. The players who grew up there, or chose to move there, were all about learning the craft and playing well. No grand- standing or overblown theatrics, just damned good music. I was really happy to see the appendix
where the author lists Gainesville concerts by both national and local acts, including Louis Armstrong, Bob Dylan, Mudcrunch and ad- mittedly my favorite, The Allman Brothers Band, who, as a side note, purchased the bulk of their musical equipment at Lipham Music in Gainesville. All in all, Music Everywhere is a highly
entertaining, well written, look at a city that played a major role in the history of rock and roll music. Kudos to Marty Jourard on a book of historical importance.
-Michael Buffalo Smith •
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