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Ann Powers

Biography

Ann Powers

Ann Powers has been a music critic for more than 30 years, working for NPR, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and other publications. In the decade she has worked with NPR, she has written extensively on music and culture and appeared regularly on the "All Songs Considered" podcast and on news shows including "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." Her books include a memoir, WEIRD LIKE US: My Bohemian America; GOOD BOOTY: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music; and PIECE BY PIECE with Tori Amos. Powers lives in Nashville.

Ann Powers

Books by Ann Powers

Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
by Ann Powers - Biography, Music, Nonfiction

For decades, Joni Mitchell’s life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has inspired countless musicians --- from peers like James Taylor, to inheritors like Prince and Brandi Carlile --- and authors, who have dissected her music and her life in their writing. At the same time, Mitchell has always been a force beckoning us still closer, as --- with the other arm --- she pushes us away. Given this, music critic Ann Powers wondered if there was another way to draw insights from the life of this singular musician who never stops moving, never stops experimenting. In TRAVELING, Powers seeks to understand Mitchell through her myriad journeys.

Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America
by Ann Powers
Weird Like Us
by Ann Powers - Nonfiction