Along Comes The Association: Beyond Folk Rock and Three-Piece Suits [paperback] by Russ Giguere and Ashley Wren Collins

Along Comes The Association: Beyond Folk Rock and Three-Piece Suits [paperback] by Russ Giguere and Ashley Wren Collins

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Along Comes The Association is the story of how Russ Giguere and his fellow band members in the legendary and influential pop group The Association came together to create unparalleled music, unique to the time and place, and never again to be repeated. Yes, there were drugs, and there were women, such as the lovely Linda Ronstadt and Helen Mirren, but it was the Sixties, after all. In reading Along Comes The Association, you are transported back in time to post-1963 America. Go on, try to resist the urge to roll one while floating on the musical cloud of melodic rock that Russ Giguere and his band of melodic troubadours popularized and we still cherish to this day...
 
 
“Along Comes The Association is a sentimental, seductive trip back to one of the 1960's best-loved acts…Russ Giguere’s musical journey (as written with co-author Ashley Wren-Collins) makes for a marvelous memoir…takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey through the many highs and sometimes low experiences that he and the band lived through. It's an exceptional story whether you lived through it or not.”
―Medium.com

“Along Comes The Association: Beyond Folk Rock and Three-Piece Suits is a fascinating book, an accurate and visual portrait of the Los Angeles and Hollywood music world of the sixties.”
―Music Connection

“Giguere and co-writer Ashley Wren Collins approached Along Comes The Association in a journalistic fashion.”
―Billboard
 
 
About the Author
 
Russ Giguere joined The Men, a folk-rock group born out of Hootenanny Night at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, in 1964. When The Men disbanded, six members formed The Association, in which Russ sang lead on songs like “Cherish” and “Windy” and played rhythm guitar, serving as an integral part in The Association's sound for the next six years. During one of rock music’s most influential time periods, Russ rode to the top of the music charts with The Association, opening the legendary Monterey International Pop Festival and some of the biggest concert venues in the US to the very first sounds of rock and roll. Along Comes the Association, featuring a foreword from David Geffen, chronicles Russ’s time with sex, drugs, rock and roll, and three-piece suits as a member of The Association, his solo career, and the decades when he later rejoined the band. More than 50 years later, The Association’s songs rank among BMI’s Top 100 Songs of the Century. Somewhere in a city near you, The Association is playing a concert to a packed house of adoring fans.

Ashley Wren Collins is an award-winning author, director, producer, choreographer and actor. She lives in New York City.