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Ben Folds

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By Ben Folds

A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

Folds, Ben · 2019

Singer and songwriter Ben Folds (born 1966), whose band Ben Folds Five came together in Chapel Hill, looks back on his life in music. Chapters cover his music teachers and 'cheap lessons', a stretch in Nashville, the band's first albums and the music business, 'Rockin' the suburbs', going solo, and the years after a low point, told through anecdotes and working advice. Published in a first edition of 2019, 311 pages with illustrations.

✓ Held at OCPL · BIO FOLDS FOL Duke NC Cardinal Durham Chapel Hill PL

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1995 Ben Folds Five release their debut album The piano trio, formed in Chapel Hill around 1993, issued its self-titled first album on the independent Caroline label, then signed with Sony's 550 Music, which released Whatever and Ever Amen in 1997. People: Ben FoldsEncyclopedia.com: Ben Folds Five (Contemporary Musicians; Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990)

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