Journalist Bob Greene takes readers on an American journey of music, memories, and universal longing. For fifteen years beginning in the 1990s, Greene stepped into another world, the touring world of the great early rock bands who gave America the car-radio and jukebox music it still loves best. Singing backup with the legendary Jan and Dean as they endlessly crisscross the nation, Greene takes us to football stadiums and minor-league ballparks, to back roads and carnival midways as he tells of great fame and lingering sorrow, of unexpected friendship and lasting dreams, of the things that keep us going in the face of all the things that threaten to stop us. All of them--not just the people on the stage, but the audiences, too--are seeking their private versions of the mythical destination: Surf City, the perfect, cloudless place we all believe is out there, if only we can find it.--From publisher description.

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