First I heard of this - I will certainly read Jorma's bio, he must have some excellent tales and insights. Thx for the heads up!

looking forward to this
thanks for sharing

One of my favorite artists but not one of my favorite
artist bios 🙁

YMMV

One of my favorite artists but not one of my favorite
artist bios 🙁

YMMV

Mind if I ask what your reservations are about the book?

Would like to hear what made the book not so great - gotta carry some weight coming from a huge Jorma fan who announced the book before we were aware of it.

Music autobios seem to tank more often than not. When they are good it is a great ride - Al Kooper's Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards pretty much set the bar impossibly high IMO, they have all seemed kinda tepid since I read that one.

My main interest in the Jorma story is the musicology of his style of playing, insights on Rev. Gary Davis and other guitarists - since Jorma was one of a very few who revived old time acoustic fingertstyle - if he covered a bit of his vast archive of knowledge about that then it will be worthwhile I think.

It's a memoir of his life, with a lot left out. More an inner chronicle
than an outer one. It's his book, of course.

Pros: a lot about his early years and how the airplane came together.
Lots of stuff about guitars and motorbikes and cars and speed skating.

Cons: many missed opportunities to clarify things or offer deeper insight, a
ghost writer or writing partner would have caught this. Very repetitive. Again,
a writing partner would have caught this. Or a more participatory editor. Not
a lot about learning guitar in the form of stories, it's more like he mentions
a name and then thanks them... And moved on

In the end I only kept reading to see if it would get better and not because
the story was compelling.

Thought there would be more pictures, I had the Kindle edition.

C+ to B-. Now deleted from my Kindle.

He's a great player and many of his interviews are far more interesting.

Anyone else read this?

I'm in the middle of it - about 1/3 - 1/2 way through. Time wise, right after the release of Burgers and Bark.

I'm enjoying it.

As waitinforrain mentioned, I want to know a little more about the driving force behind Tuna - the move from acoustic to electric Tuna. I didn't get there yet so it will be interesting to see what he mentions etc.

also would have like more pics.

so far, it's a worthwhile read.

Dry.