Da Capo Best Music Writing 2001: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, and More

This is the second volume in an annual series that celebrates writing about music and its culture from a specific year. Selected by Nick Hornby from the year 2001 it covers a range of contemporary music styles. He has chosen pieces from an array of sources on topics from hip-hop on ecstasy and Cuban rappers to The Lion Sleeps Tonight and MerleFest. The writers featured include veterans as well as new talents such as: Courtney Love; Camden Joy; Rick Moody; Anthony DeCurtis; William Gay; Gary Giddins; M. Doughty; Eddie Dean; Richard Meltzer; Whitney Balliett; David Bowman; Ann Powers; and Chuck D.