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From the world of there-can-never-be-too-many-lists-about-music comes The Onion's 17 Essential Books About Popular Music, with intriguing selections abound. Congrats to the friends of Shore Fire who made the list. I really think The Onion's cultural criticism is largely spot-on. Keep up the good work, fellas. Of course, I also think Alan Lomax's The Land Where The Blues Began, Elijah Wald's Escaping The Delta, August Wilson's 7 Guitars, Clarence Major's Dirty Bird Blues and Bob Dylan's Chronicles make my personal list, which I admit is quite heavy on the blues literature.