BLUE GUITAR HIGHWAY: Paul Metsa plays some tunes at the MBA trade show in Minneapolis

BLUE GUITAR HIGHWAY (University of Minnesota Press) is a musician's tale: the story of a boy growing up on the Iron Range, playing his guitar at family gatherings, coming of age in the psychedelic seventies, and honing his craft as a pro in Minneapolis, ground zero of American popular music in the mid-eighties.

Check out Paul Metsa as he hammers out some tunes in September 2011 at the Midwest Booksellers Association trade show in Minneapolis.

"Paul Metsa is a natural-born writer. He can write anything. Lyrics, letters, articles all flow out of him like an exotic, ferocious waterfall splashing down on all the senses. If he writes it, I read it."—Nora Guthrie

"Metsa is a mountain in Minnesota music."—Bobby Vee

"Paul Metsa is a great artist. I always look forward to playing with him."—Lyle Lovett

"The roads Paul Metsa has traveled are so fabled you might think, opening his book, that it would be a book of footnotes—the record of a man walking in other people's footsteps. But Metsa brings every myth the roads carry down to earth, rewriting their stories in real time, returning the roads to real life, opening them up again to both past and future."—Greil Marcus

MORE INFO: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/blue-guitar-highway

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