Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1550226649 ISBN13: 9781550226645 Release Date: August 2004 Publisher: ECW Press Length: 380 Pages Weight: 1.70 lbs. Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3" Neil Peart decided to drive his BMW Z-8 automobile from L.A. to Big Bend National Park, in Southwest Texas. As he sped along "between the gas-gulping SUVs and asthmatic Japanese compacts clumping in the left lane, and the roaring, straining semis in the right," he acted as his own DJ, lining up the CDs chronologically and according to his possible moods. "Not only did the music I listened to accompany my journey, but it also took me on sidetrips, through memory and fractals of associations, threads reaching back through my whole life in ways I had forgotten, or had never suspected.... Sifting through those decades and those memories, I realized that I wasn't interested in recounting the facts of my life in purely autobiographical terms, but rather ... in trying to unweave the fa