Richie Unterberger

Richie Unterberger

Richie Unterberger (b 1962) is an American author and journalist whose focus is popular music and travel writing.

Having worked as a college DJ, he started reviewing records for "Op" magazine in 1983. From 1985 to 1991, Unterberger was an editor for "Option". [ [http://www.markprindle.com/unterberger-i.htm 2002 interview] ]

Since 1993, he has been a prolific contributor to Allmusic, the on-line database of music biographies and album reviews for which he has written thousands of entries. (Many of Unterberger's on-line contributions have also found their way into the print versions of Allmusics.) Unterberger contributes to various local and national publications, including "Mojo", "Record Collector", "Rolling Stone", "Oxford American", and "No Depression". He has written liner notes to dozens of CD reissues for labels like Rhino, Collectors' Choice, and Sundazed.

Unterberger's books draw extensively upon first-hand interviews [ [http://www.richieunterberger.com/ulrtrans.html Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll Interviews ] at www.richieunterberger.com] [ [http://www.richieunterberger.com/musicusahome.html Music USA ] at www.richieunterberger.com] [ [http://www.richieunterberger.com/urbtrans.html Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers Interviews ] at www.richieunterberger.com] [ [http://www.richieunterberger.com/turntrans.html 1960s Folk-Rock Interviews ] at www.richieunterberger.com] with musicians and their associates. His books include:
*"Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll" (1998) - profiles of 60 under-appreciated cult rock artists of all styles and eras
*"The Rough Guide to Music USA" (1999) - a guidebook to the evolution of regional popular music throughout America in the twentieth century
*"Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators and Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock" (2000) - another look at under-appreciated cult rock artists
*"Turn! Turn! Turn!: The '60s Folk-Rock Revolution", (2002) - the history of folk rock
*"Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock" (2003) - the second volume of the author's history of folk rock
*"The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film," (2006) - an illustrated 400-page guide to the music the Beatles recorded but did not release, as well as musical footage of the group that hasn't been made commercially available.

"The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film" won a 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. [ [http://www.redroom.com/author/richie-unterberger/bio Red Room] ]

Unterberger has given numerous talks on music and popular culture at public libraries throughout San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Mateo County, California. He is also a speaker at area bookstores, including The Booksmith in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.

Unterberger has also written on travel, including "The Rough Guide to Seattle" (1998); and is co-author of "The Rough Guide to Shopping with a Conscience" (2007), a book about ethical products, investment, and related topics. He has traveled to more than thirty countries, and is an advocate of independent travel and alternative culture.

His nephew Andrew writes for Stylusmagazine.com

Notes

External links

* [http://www.markprindle.com/unterberger-i.htm 2002 interview with Unterberger]
* [http://www.redroom.com/author/richie-unterberger/bio Red Room biography]
* [http://www.richieunterberger.com/ Richie Unterberger's Unknown Legends ] at www.richieunterberger.com
* Profile at [http://www.roughguides.com/website/travel/AuthorPage/author.aspx?authorID=82 Rough Guides] // [http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hcfoxqqjld0e Allmusic.com] // [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1456119/ IMDb]
* [http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-09-19/music/rich-unterberger-brings-rare-rock-flicks-to-the-haight/full Article about Richie Unterberger in the "SF Weekly"]
* The WELL interviews on [http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/160/Richie-Unterberger-Turn-Turn-Tur-page01.html Turn! Turn! Turn!] // [http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/196/Richie-Unterberger-Eight-Miles-H-page01.html Eight Miles High] // [http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/285/Richie-Unterberger-The-Unrelease-page01.html The Unreleased Beatles]


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