{"product_id":"guitars-bars-and-motown-superstars-9780472113996","title":"Guitars  Bars  and Motown Superstars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Guitarist Dennis Coffey was in that elite band of musicians who helped to create the Motown Sound.\" ---Edwin Starr  \"There can never be enough stories told from the vantage point of Motowns fabled Snake Pit  from one of the journeyman musicians working behind the scenes. Guitars  Bars  and Motown Superstars also shows just how frenetic and creative the Detroit music scene was in the 60s and 70s. But its Dennis Coffeys personal story thats most gripping: the journey from Motown  to Billboards Top Ten  to working the line at Chevrolet.\" ---Susan Whitall  Detroit News; author of Women of Motown  Under Berry Gordy  Motown was a place where studio musicians usually stood in the shadows  unlike the solo stars whose names appeared on the albums. Gordy held a tight rein on his musicians  forbidding them from playing for other record companies and denying them credit on his records.  In Guitars  Bars  and Motown Superstars  author and guitarist Dennis Coffey tells how he slipped Gordys draconian rules and went on to success as both a Motown musician and a million-selling solo artist. He offers a fascinating backstage look at the Detroit  L.A.  and New York music scenes in the 60s and 70s  with side trips to the smoky clubs and funky studios where the Motown sound was born.  Coffey is credited with creating a lot of that sound  including the famous guitar intro to the Temptations classic \"Cloud Nine.\" He played on hundreds of Motown albums  and introduced such innovations as the Wah Wah pedal into the Motown recording studio.  Guitars  Bars  and Motown Superstars is an entertaining and amusing memoir of one of the most dynamic and influential periods in contemporary pop culture  and a unique insight into the ups and downs of the studio guitar-for-hire. Its also a look at the dizzying rags-to-riches-and-back-again career of a rock musician who went from million-seller with a house in the Hollywood Hills  and ultimately back to his roots in the Detroit area. A must for fans of Motown  rock  and you-are-there pop-culture history.  From \"rock \u0026amp; roll kid\" to honorary member of Motowns elite rhythm section the Funk Brothers  Dennis Coffey was one of Detroits most in-demand session guitarists. After leaving Motown  Coffey became a regular at Hitsville USA  playing on records for Marvin Gaye  the Supremes  Stevie Wonder  Gladys Knight  and Junior Walker. Most recently he appeared in the documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275248689205,"sku":"ByrdShop_0472113992","price":95.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780472113996.jpg?v=1780503583","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/guitars-bars-and-motown-superstars-9780472113996","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}