Reviews of
Dazzling Stranger (original edition):
‘Hats off to Colin Harper… highly readable, highly
informative and predominantly entertaining.’
Mojo, October
2000
‘Extraordinarily enthralling and valuable: a major work of
Brit-folk scholarship, and fun with it.’
Folk Roots, October
2000
‘A work of considerable importance, scholarly beyond the
bounds of traditional rock biography, intuitive and
informed.’
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Q,
January
2001
‘A book that needed to be written, and for folk, blues and
beyond enthusiasts, one that’s required
reading.’
Glasgow Herald, September
16 2000
‘The model of what a music biography should be.’
Irish
News, August 19
2000
‘Highly
recommended.’
The Guitar Magazine, October
2000
‘Brilliant.’
Time Out, June
2000
‘An essential read for anyone interested in the development
of folk and blues in Britain since 1960.’
The Living Tradition,
January
2001
‘Enlightening musical analysis, entertaining anecdotes and a
huge amount of research, marshalled with the rigour of a
professional historian.’
Jazzwise,
November
2000
‘The folk scene in which Jansch came of age has found an
excellent chronicler in Colin Harper.’
Times Literary Supplement, September
22 2000
‘A remarkably informed and absolutely fascinating study of
the birth and first flowering of the British folk
scene… Dazzling
Stranger could hardly be
bettered.’
Record Collector, January
2001
‘The history of the British folk and blues scenes in the
early sixties – an ambitious undertaking that Harper pulls
off triumphantly.’
Blueprint, November
2000