It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track

The second collection of essays from the legendary music critic Ian Penman, exploring the work of James Brown, Charlie Parker, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan and Prince. Penman's fist collection, Vital Signs: Music, Movies, and Other Manias. , was published by Serpent's Tail in 1998, and reviewed by Publishers Weekly: https://www. publishersweekly. com/978-1-85242-523-4 The pieces in this forthcoming collection have previously appeared in City Journal. and the London Review of Books. , along with an entirely new piece on Prince.