Want to Be in a Band?
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Publisher Description
Do you want to be in a band? Well, here's how! First, bug your two older sisters to start a band, and then beg them to join. (It helps if they already know how to sing and play guitar.) Then there are some tricky parts, like getting over STAGEFRIGHT and practicing until the tips of your fingers ache and playing gigs at not-so-big-time music clubs. At least, that's the way our little sister narrator explains it in her "guide" on how to start a band, based on the real-life experiences of author Suzzy Roche.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With the characteristic wit known to her fans, Roche, of the folk-rock band the Roches, disguises first-person memoir as second-person advice about making music. "First you'll need two interesting, smart older sisters who can play guitars and sing," she begins. As gifted a writer as she is a performer, Roche employs a tone that stretches from encouraging ("If you start to feel hopeless, take a deep breath, close your eyes and say I can do it' three times") to goofy ("If you can't agree about which notes to sing... it will make your music sound strange, maybe like a churning garbage truck") and honest (about not being the "Next Big Thing" anymore: "Don't be surprised if it makes you and your sisters feel sort of crummy and sad"). At the book's heart is a well of feeling, and Potter's watercolor-and-ink spreads with their self-conscious, folk-na f figures and whimsical asides (musical notes flying from a guitar, a whale surfacing from the ocean over which the band travels on tour) look like the Roches' music visualized. Ages 4 8.
