Rodger Lyle Brown

"Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia" is a reissue of the original 1991 release, published right at the tail end of the first Athens, GA-as-music-mecca scene. What makes volume sing is that author Rodger Lyle Brown was there, and the book reads like an insider tale of one of those legendary scenes that stopped being a scene once you’d heard about it. From the B-52’s to Pylon to R.E.M., it’s all here, in all the hilarity and poignancy of a spent youth that feels like yours whether it really was or not.

Highly recommended.

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