We hope you can join us in the record shop on Tuesday, September 9th at 4:00 PM for a special instore event featuring author Tamara Saviano and singer-songwriter Laurel Lewis. The two will discuss Saviano’s Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music and Lewis will perform a short set of songs by Kris Kristofferson. All who preorder the book from Grimey’s will receive a wristband for our signing. You can read more about our Poets and Dreamers event on our site here.

Part memoir, part oral history, Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music traces Tamara Saviano’s remarkable journey through the rise of the Americana music genre. Spanning more than three decades, Saviano unfolds the story of Americana—country music’s bohemian cousin—from her unique perspectives as a journalist, historian, Grammy-winning music producer, filmmaker, and artist emissary.

Saviano takes readers behind the scenes for some of the most significant moments in Americana history. Poets and Dreamers illuminates the exceptional Americana community: an ever-expanding yet close-knit circle of friends and unsung heroes devoted to the success of roots music and its artists.

Highlights include interviews with artists and colleagues and memories of special events, concerts, and day-to-day life with singers, songwriters, and musicians. Tender stories recalling Saviano’s close relationships with two of her most enduring clients, iconic songwriters Kris Kristofferson and Guy Clark, round out this singular historical work. Including photographs of significant people and moments in Americana music, Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music will entertain and inform a worldwide readership of fans, students, and scholars of Americana and roots music. 

Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music is available to preorder here as a paperbackbook. All preorders will include a wristband for Tamara Savianos’ 9/9 book signing that also guarantees access to our event. Preorders are limited to total of FOUR TOTAL per customer / household. For each book preordered, you’ll receive one wristband such that two books preordered = two wristbands, one book preordered = one wristband, etc. All who place preorders in advance will receive an email with preorder pickup and event details on or by the day before our event.

At the event Saviano will sign up to two books per wristbanded attendee. Wristbands are required for the signing for all 13+ and they also guarantee entrance to our event. (Wristbands are not required for kids 12 & under attending with a wristband-holding adult.)

Online orders placed for local, event pickup will be available along with wristbands starting at 11:00 AM on the day of our event with Tamara Saviano, Tuesday, September 9th.

*Event preorders for store pickup will be held for three months after the event date. Please pick up your copy of Poets and Dreamers no later than December 9th.