Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975

I've often flattered myself that my love for the music of Thompson and his formative band, Fairport Convention, is some obscure passion, but it's clear at any show you go to that his fans are legion, and they (like me) will find many rewards in his first memoir, written with the late Scott Timberg. Parading neither the cryptic dodges of Dylan's Chronicles or the dishiness of Keith Richards's Life, Beeswing is, like its author, straightforward, drily funny, and self-deprecating, while being honest as well about the ambition behind his and his teenage bandmates' invention of British folk rock, as they came of age in the intense, crowded years in the wake of Dylan and the Beatles.