Chesher, Deborah - Everybody I Shot Is Dead

Narrow focused book will likely appeal to select audience.
Chesher was a concert photographer, very active in the 1970’s.
This coffee-table sized book is packed with images of musicians, who, by 2007, had died.
One might think macabre, but this is not. More of personal remembrances.
Brief bios, a fragment of memory, a flash of personality.

Hollywood Fats, for example. Phenomenal blues guitarist who never broke big.

John Fahey, late in life, impoverished, on medication, needing anyone could help.

Jane Vasey and Tony Flaim, both from the Downchild Blues Band.

Badfinger, that poor group, represented three times.

Papa John Creach, onstage or backstage, ever stylish.

For as wild, excessive and hedonistic as the 70’s were, surprisingly this is not wall to wall overdoses.
Enjoyable, if you know the period, know the music.
Chesher, while one suspects knows more stories, refrains from dishing dirt. She also remembers those who helped her out along her path. Classy.