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Title: Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture by Jac Holzman, Gavan Daws ISBN: 0-9661221-0-0 Publisher: FirstMedia Books Pub. Date: 30 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (15 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant look at art and commerce in the music business.
Comment: I heard Jac Holzman on the radio, ordered his book and read 'Follow the Music' over one weekend. This is one of the best books ever written about how the music business actually became a business. It is also one of the most distinctive collective memoirs of the 50's, 60's and early 70's- the time when our music spoke to us and for us. If you lived through it, this book will bring everything to life again in crisp, technicolor images. If you didn't, believe me, this is how it was.

Jac started Elektra records when he was a teenager in New York in 1950. So, first of all, this is his story. He tells it candidly, with humor, passion and a cool objectivity about himself. Then there are the stories told by almost everyone who ever worked for, or recorded for, Elektra. Jac and co-author Gavan Daws have created an astonishingly rich tapestry of life experiences from their contributors- Judy Collins, Paul Rothchild, Jackson Browne, Carly Simon, among many others- as well as an ! honest look at how a tiny store-front record operation became a giant. It wasn't easy and there were many trade-offs along the way. Twenty-three years after he founded it, Jac finally gave up Elektra.

This book beautifully conveys the excitement and love that Jac always had for the music, and how great that music was/is. There was nothing for it- I had to put on all the albums he talks about- Tim Buckley, The Doors, Harry Chapin etc. as I was reading and have my own Jac Holzman/Elektra experience!

Rating: 5
Summary: It's a great book for folk and rock music fans
Comment: Jac Holzman was Elektra Records from it's beginning stages until the mid-70's. what I love about this book, is the format and style, what I call a or autobiography in this case, similar in format to the Bill Graham and David Crosby autobiographies.....in which the author says something, then others that were also there get to have their say as well. It gives you a much more rounded picture of what was happening. Jac, like Bill and David, was not afraid to leave it in when others say something bad about him.... it's a honest and true piece of work. For music fans it's a treat to read about people like Fred Neil and Judy Henske - information you will not find anywhere else about these semi-obscure folk legends. Most of all, it's a reflection of an era that no longer remains except in our memories. Or if like myself, you were not there the first time around, you will be there while reading this book.

Rating: 5
Summary: Journey of 1000 miles begins with a step
Comment: Once, in the MUSIC business, there were men and women in charge of labels who, with a combination of passion about great music,
and just the right amount of business acumen, were able to nurture the explosion of musical creativity in the 60s. Jac Holzman is just such a person.

The exciting and interesting story of Elektra records is told using an oral history approach; illuminating the story with a fascile balance of viewpoint.

I had never heard the full story of how Love and then, The Doors,
became labelmates at Elektra. There were moments in the telling of that particular story where I felt that I could almost reach out and touch the participants.

FOLLOW THE MUSIC is an entertaining, engrossing, sometimes funny-sometimes tragic account of one of the titans of American music and his lovechild; whose ability to follow his dream to it's fruition has enriched us all. Oh, if we could all be so blessed.

The recent failure of the modern music industry shows what happens when people who aren't committed to music and creativity are in positions of authority. Everything suffers; most of all, the music.

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