Vernon Joynson’s name has become synonymous with two massive, pioneering works of pop scholarship, The Tapestry Of Delights and Fuzz, Acid & Flowers. This long-awaited limited reprint of the latter covers almost every aspect of American popular music of the 60s and 70s.
Spread over 1,100 pages are a vast number of acts (spanning folk, blues, rock, pop, jazz and beyond), with personnel, discographies and a rarity scale offered alongside overviews of their careers and a multitude of illustrations. With contributions from many of the world’s leading pop experts and collectors, this lovingly-compiled and endlessly fascinating book deserves space on every serious music fan’s bookshelf. What makes this edition especially desirable is that it is a strictly limited heavyweight hardback printing of a mere 750 copies. They seem set to become even more collectable than their paperback counterparts, which sell on eBay for well into three figures.
