Live Set: Music is History
Stream the Show Download the Songs My buddy Walter gave me this book for my birthday and at first I was a little cynical. I'm not a big fan of Questlove or The Roots (and definitely not Jimmy Fallon)... but about 20 pages in, I knew I was reading one of my favorite books ever. Questlove does an essay for each year starting with his birth year in 1971. Each essay is pretty different, but the idea is that he puts music in an historical context... each chapter has a page that just lists notable events of the year and then he dives into whatever struck him... sometimes completely personal, sometimes esoteric. He is very cool, smart, well-versed in music and history, and laugh out loud funny sometimes. It is outstanding! I created a spreadsheet of all 500 or so songs he makes mention of in the book (and which he was cool enough to index) and went through them for this set. Not all of them are necessarily songs he liked. I didn't concern myself with that. I just tried to put togeth...
