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This is the Only Living I’ve Got (Don’t Take it Away From Me): The Rodney Graham Songbook
Published by ECI Press, Charles H. Scott Gallery, JRP|Ringier
Artist: Rodney Graham
Editors: Christoph Keller, Kathy Slade
Copy editor: Graham Sheard
Designer: Robin Mitchell for hundreds & thousands design inc.
Publisher: ECI Press, Charles H. Scott Gallery, JRP|Ringier
Printed by: AZ Grafiche, Italy
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 30 x 23.7 x 2 cm
Page count: 171
Language: English
ISBN: 978 3 905770 02 5
Price: 39 CAD
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This is the Only Living I’ve Got (Don’t Take It Away From Me): The Rodney Graham Songbook is a compilation of 37 songs from Graham’s CDs and records including The Bed Bug, Love Buzz, And Other Short Songs in the Popular Idiom, Getting it Together in the Country, Rock is Hard, and Never Tell a Pal a Hard Luck Story.
Graham’s songs are transcribed into sheet music with musical notation for piano, guitar tablature and lyrics. Taking the form of a popular songbook, the book features images of the artist, his band, and new artwork. In addition the book contains a CD compilation of rare cover songs with two brand new tracks.
Biographies
Vancouver artist Rodney Graham is an internationally acclaimed artist. He is known for literary and conceptual artworks, cinematic installations, costume dramas, and also as a singer-songwriter. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, with projects such as Parsifal Score, Parsifal (1882-38,969,364,735), and School of Velocity, Graham began to make artworks whose central subject was music or the concrete objects of music such as musical scores and CDs. Since then, the line between his visual art practice and his music practice has become blurred and eventually conflates in works such as How I Became a Ramblin Man, Zabriskie Point and The Phonokinetoscope.