Peanut Butter and Mashed Potatoes: Satisfying Trivia For Rock And Pop Fressers

Award-winning author, poet, and visual artist Deborah Godin does it again in Peanut Butter and Mashed Potatoes: Satisfying Trivia for Rock and Pop Fressers, her follow-up to the acclaimed Papa Do Run: A Baby Boomer Looks (and Laughs) at Vintage Rock & Roll. Whether you are a baby boomer who wants to jitterbug down memory lane, or a collector of music trivia, this book twists, shouts, and shakes a tail feather. In five chapters with titles like, “Here, There, Everywhere: Songs about Real Places,” “What’s Your Name, Who’s Your Daddy: Songs about Real People,” and “From Califon-ya to the New York Eye-land: Searching for America’s Band,” this fun and frolicking nonfiction serves up a zany smorg of both well-known and obscure facts, and sets a few “records” straight. From where the real “Hotel California” is located to the identities behind hits like “Mrs. Robinson” and “Mack the Knife,” Godin gives savvy music and lyric lovers exactly what they want—the whole enchilada.

With a bachelor in art history and the fine arts, Deborah Godin earned her master's from Wayne State University. As a curator, she has worked with various art galleries, and as an artist, she has enjoyed several one-woman shows. Widely published in an arts magazine, she has also written and illustrated several collections of poems. She is the author of the award-winning nonfiction on musicology and pop culture, Papa Do Run.