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The music and literature blog Largehearted Boy has this really cool feature, Book Notes, where they chat with the authors of a book and ask them to compile a playlist for it. In this one from a couple weeks back, they talked to Henry Owings and Billy Carter about their compilation of inspired rock prose from the likes of Henry Rollins and Patton Oswalt and many others, The Rock Bible .

I don’t know what makes me want to read this book more, the fact that it has entries in it with titles like “The Parable Of The Girl Who Misheard Lyrics But Still Insisted On Giving Voice To Song,” or this excerpt from the guys’ playlist for the book…

CHEAP TRICK – “Southern Girls”

The Trick have penned a bucketful of pure dreck, but “Southern Girls” is so good it might actually be brilliant. Defined by the FM radio smash “I Want You To Want Me” – 1975′s In Color is an album that every self-respecting music dork in the world should end up memorizing at some point. Once you get past “the hit,” you will discover a glistening shimmer of amped pop majesty. An album so perfect that even years later Steve Albini couldn’t f*ck it up.

BRILLIANT. Considering I hadn’t actually heard this song until this Monday.

Read the whole piece on Largehearted Boy HERE…

Owings and Carter are behind the music mag Chunklet, which comes out intermittently, whenever they want it to, but you can check out the website HERE…