"A vintage blue car parked on burnt concrete. Not the usual slick album cover. Buena Vista Social Club sounds more like a place than the name of a band. Three dollars used, worth a listen. I snap the disc into my Walkman and leave the record shop."
from "New Town"
"The twelve stories in this collection don't even try to define music or its appeal or its power. Instead, they capture musical moments--hopeful, tragic, angry, joyous, transforming moments, which have come about because music is."
"Reading through this collection all at once feels a bit like turning the dial on the radio. Each story strikes its own unique note. But taken together, they create a kind of harmony. A harmony that reveals how music seeps into our hearts and our lives and ourselves." (from WHAT A SONG CAN DO, edited by Jennifer Armstrong)
