Questlove

A music focused overview of US history from the ‘70s through to the pandemic years. The first part of the book delivers on what its title promises but the second part slips into the author’s professional life to the point that it becomes more memoir than history. That's not a problem since his knowledge and opinions about the music he writes about are just shared from a more personal perspective. The author’s name, Questlove, is one I was only familiar with in the context of the house band on Jimmy Fallon’s late-night shows. It turns out the band itself has won several Grammy awards under the R&B and Rap categories and those are the genres that figure heavily in the book’s musical references. My copy was the audiobook version which was read by the author – not always a good thing – but in this case I doubt anyone else could have done it half as well.… (meer)