20 canciones

The Bob Dylan complaint. The nostalgia of Rocío Jurado. Loneliness according to the Beatles. The real events that inspired Nirvana and The Cranberries and the invented legends about Silvio Rodríguez and Luis Eduardo Aute. The Oasis disputes. Leonard Cohen and Enrique Morente united by García Lorca. A love story by Joan Baez, another by Joaquín Sabina. The misinterpretation of Bruce Springsteen. The verses of Carlos Cano, Concha Piquer and Joan Manuel Serrat. The suicide of Alfonsina Storni in the voice of Mercedes Sosa. And much more. As long as his memory reaches, Jorge Decarlini always wanted to write words to be sung, but he had to settle for writing them to be read: the frustrated musician became a writer. From that unfulfilled desire comes this declaration of love and curiosity towards the delicate art of putting words to a melody. Decarlini breaks down twenty emblematic songs, provides them with context, identifies references, undoes myths and misunderstandings, discovers secrets, values prosodies, applies the science of poetry metrics to them, delves into interviews and newspaper archives, and from each letter he constructs a precise piece of social archeology and music-loving mythomania. A book to listen to on the sofa, while he reads songs.