How to Play the Guitar and Y: Words + Music, Vol. 21

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“This isn’t strictly speaking an instructional manual, but a work of comedic philosophy.”

Elvis Costello – songwriter, singer, author, and Fender Jazzmaster known to his admirers as “The Little Hands of Concrete” – spins his tale with wit, grit, and spit to spare.

How to Play the Guitar and Y, Costello’s new entry into Audible’s Words + Music series, combines recitation, impersonation, and musical illustration to show you how to turn a three-chord trick into a four-chord caper and let your curiosity take you where it will.

Part madcap musical method, part comic chronicle, How to Play the Guitar and Y is accompanied by the author throughout on a number of different instruments with his 10 wandering fingers.

So gather round your favorite listening device to hear a storyteller and musician at his most captivating as he reminds you not to be afraid to fail and to never forget to play.