In a special AuthorSpeak Concert event on Saturday, November 28th at 3:00 p.m. at the Norwalk Public Library, author and musician Steve Katz, founding member of The Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears, will speak about his memoir, Blood, Sweat, and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years: Is Steve Katz a Rock Star?, and perform rock classics from his past.
Katz’s memoir, an honest, personal account of a life spent at the edge of the spotlight, is set during the Greenwich Village folk/rock scene, the Sixties’ most celebrated venues and concerts, and behind closed doors on international tours and grueling studio sessions.
Praise for the book includes:
“My friend Steve Katz was a nice Jewish boy who became a big star. Happily he is now a nice Jewish gentleman who lived the rock’n’roll lifestyle and lived to tell the tale in this wickedly funny insight into the decadent days of the music world of the 60s and 70s. I was there – it’s all true!” —Terry Ellis Co-founder of Chrysalis Records
“Katz engagingly recounts fascinating stories in an insightful, intelligent, sometimes wistful and sometimes funny style that makes this one of the few rock memoirs worth reading from beginning to end.”-Publishers Weekly
Katz later became a record producer, working with rock renegade Lou Reed, among others, and in 1972 produced two Lou Reed albums. After a number of productions, Katz returned to playing music with the group American Flyer, but later forayed back into producing with Mercury Records and Green Linnet Records, a leading record label of traditional Irish music in America. After a 35-year absence, Katz rejoined Blood, Sweat & Tears to mark the band’s 40th anniversary.
Also a professional photographer, Steve Katz and his wife, Alison Palmer, a ceramic artist, have a ceramics shop, Alison Palmer Studio, in South Kent, Connecticut.
To register for this program, please contact Cynde Bloom Lahey, Director of Library Information Services, (203) 899-2780 ext. 15133, or clahey@norwalkpubliclibrary.org.