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  Nick Mason's Sauceful of Secrets is the Best Pink Floyd Experience in Decades

  March 26 at 5:20 a.m.

  Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets Jones Hall March 25, 2K19 In a vacuum, calling Nick Mason “the heartbeat of Pink Floyd” seems just a bit too on the nose. He's the drummer, yes, and drum beats are close to heartbeats, but the phrase itself feels a bit like forced poetry...

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  A Boss Book on Springsteen's Songs

  March 26 at 4 a.m.

  Bruce Springsteen: The Stories Behind the Songs By Brian Hiatt 288 pp. $35 Abrams Books For the general music listener, a biography or autobiography of their favorite artist would probably suffice in terms of reading investigation. More hardcore fans like to dig deeper, and will devour books that are based...

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  Before They Were All Anxiety and Bile, Pink Floyd Knew How to Have Fun

  March 25 at 5 a.m.

  Bands evolve. This is been part of the template of rock and roll since the very beginning. The four lads who created a sensation at the start of their careers were a different group of men, sonically speaking, by the time The Beatles came to a close. Whether these evolutions...

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  The Blues According to Boz (and Bobby)

  March 25 at 4 a.m.

  On the surface, actor Matthew McConaughey, writer Stephen Harrigan, photographer Mark Seliger, actress Jennifer Holliday, and musician Boz Scaggs may not have a lot in common. But as of this year, they’ve all got the same thing to display in their homes: A Texas Medal of Arts award. Bestowed biennially...

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  Another New CSNY Bio Follows the Four Way Street

  March 22 at 6:11 a.m.

  CSNY: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young By Peter Doggett 368 pp. $28 Atria Books Fans of CSN (and Y) have had a long time gone awaiting an up-to-date, comprehensive bio (though writer Dave Zimmer gets credit for his 1984 book and revisions). In an embarrassment of riches, April 2 will...

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  CSNY's Fractured Fairy Tale Finally Gets Proper Bio

  March 11 at 4 a.m.

  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock’s Greatest Supergroup By David Browne 480 pp. $30 Da Capo Press While the foursome of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young have been the subjects singularly (or in some combination) of a bookshelf-full of autobiographies, biographies,...