The Catchers by Xan Brooks #
Started: 10/02/2025
Finished: 21/02/2025
Blurb: Spring 1927. The birth of popular music. John Coughlin is a song-catcher from New York who has been sent to Appalachia to source and record the local hill-country musicians. His assignment leads him to small-town Tennessee where he oversees the recording session that will establish his reputation. From here he ventures further south in search of glory. He is chasing what song-catchers call the big fish or the firefly; the song or performer which will make a man rich.
Notes: This was a Christmas present from my daughter who saw it on my "want to read" list on Goodreads. I'd seen a brief review of the book some place and it piqued my interest, though not enough for me to remember where I saw it. It's set in a time and place I know very little about really and was fascinating. About halfway in I started getting a feeling of foreboding that something awful was going to happen which compelled me to read more and more to find out what does happen. Enjoyed it a lot and a solid 4 Stars from me.
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