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Where a concert becomes history.
Sometimes a rock concert is more than an event. A performance can become a musical milestone, a cultural turning point, a political statement, or a deeply personal memory.
In The Decibel Diaries, Carter Alan charts a lifetime in rock through fifty concerts that shaped their moment. The journey moves across generations and musical traditions, considering performances by artists including B.B. King, Prince, Talking Heads, Alison Krauss, Robert Plant, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Each account places the concert within the artist’s career and the wider history of music, creating a vivid portrait of nearly five decades of rock and roll from the perspective of someone who was there.