I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease and General Misadventure, as Related in Popular Song Paperback – 15 August 2008

Better subtitled "A middle-aged rock critic faces his own mortality and pretends to write a music book about it." Ratio of music-to-self righteous hand-wringing is disappointingly low, and his definition of popular music starts with the Rolling Stones - Stephen Foster and Robert Burns would beg to differ. Probably a cute trip down memory lane for some, but this is not actually a work of music history.