Holly George-Warren

Grateful Dead 365
Charting what is arguably America's best-loved rock group's epic and sometimes surreal career, from its inception as the Warlocks in 1965 to a reunion benefit for Presidential candidate Barack Obama in February, 2008, Grateful Dead 365 is a dazzling and indispensible prize for collectors, Deadheads, and music enthusiasts everywhere.

Over 740 pages in length, Grateful Dead 365 features exhaustively selected work by such famed photographers as Baron Wolman, Jim Marshall, Herb Greene, Peter Simon, Jay Blakesberg, and Susana Millman, as well as the iconic and era-defining artwork of Stanley Mouse. Every selection is accompanied by lively, enlightening, and meticulous captions by Holly George-Warren, allowing the reader a level of intimacy with the band and the events surrounding it that was surpassed, perhaps, only by the photographers themselves.

In a globe-traversing career of neverending highs, devastating lows, and uninterrupted musical ecstasy, the Dead themselves were the first to exclaim, "What a long, strange trip it's been!" Grateful Dead 365 puts you in the passenger's seat for every inch of the incomparable journey.

PUNK 365
Thirty-plus years ago a dark rumble of noise gurgled up from the Lower East Side of New York City, made its way across the Atlantic to Great Britain, zigzagged back over the pond to the West Coast, and exploded. Its name—Punk. InPunk 365, the most provocative photography documenting the performances, the looks, and the attitude has been gathered together, revealing reverberations that continue to shake up the status quo.

Here we see it all: Pre-punk pioneers, the Stooges, the New York Dolls, the MC5. New York’s harbingers of change, the Ramones, Patti Smith, Richard Hell & the Voidoids. London’s anarchists, the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Slits. The West Coast’s anti-Beach Boys, X, the Germs . . .the list goes on. By the mid-1980s, from the Replacements to Bad Brains, the sound transmogrified into everything from garage punk to hardcore. Punk 365 has them all, including more than 300 different artists by the most talented photographers who captured the scene, including Bob Gruen, Roberta Bayley, Jill Furmanovsky, Stephanie Chernikowski, Godlis, Janette Beckman, and more.

Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life And Times Of Gene Autry
“Johnny Cash called him a major influence, Ringo Starr wanted to be a cowboy like him, and Willie Nelson named a son for him. Public Cowboy No. 1 tells the story of the man who inspired their admiration with a quality worthy of the subject….

“[George-Warren] doesn’t psychoanalyze Autry, interpret him or tell alleged ‘secrets’ that she alone miraculously knows. Her Autry is externalized, but her research is deep and impeccable….

Every celebrity could use a biographer like Ms. George-Warren.”

From “Books of the Times: A Cowboy Tycoon, Back in the Saddle”
By JEANINE BASINGER, The New York Times, April 6, 2007

Honky Tonk Heroes and Hillbilly Angels: The Pioneers Of Country and Western Music
Discover the surprising beginnings and humble origins of the charismatic pioneers who helped shape the country-and-western scene into the influential musical empire it is today. Included among this collection of legends are Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, and more unforgettable people who changed the face of music forever!

Cowboy: How Hollywood Invented the
Wild West
"Holly George-Warren presents the clearest, tightest, and most comprehensive record yet with 'Cowboy'... Told piecemeal before, the story comes together here in a a fresh and thorough way...thanks to George-Warren, who brings a sensitive outsider's eye to the entire tight-lipped American macho myth."

How the West Was Worn
"'How the West Was Worn' sets out to follow the trail of western fashion from the early practical pieces worn by scouts and traders to the ornate rhinestone creations that have clothed Hollywood myth makers Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, as well as Elvis Presley, Elton John, and Johnny Cash."

Shake, Rattle and Roll: The Founders of Rock & Roll
"One-page bios of 14 artists accompanied by folk art-style portraits infused with humor and energy appropriate to the genre.... George-Warren, a veteran rock writer...covers the highlights of each artist's career in simple, kid-friendly language."