Six notable fictional musicians

At the B&N Reads blog Brian Boone tagged six fictional musicians "so fantastic (or compelling in some way) that we wish they’d jump off the page and rock us until our heads explode," including:

Tucker Crowe, from Juliet, Naked

Nick Hornby writes about music so well, particularly in High Fidelity, and Juliet, Naked, which is really a novel about the pathological ownership fans take over the art they love. The impact of the story would actually be diminished if we could hear the songs recorded by reclusive, brilliant singer-songwriter Tucker Crowe, either his classic album, Juliet, or the sparse demos, Juliet, Naked. The novel tells the tale of Duncan, a Crowe superfan who gets awfully miffed when the object of his obsession strikes up a friendship with Annie, his girlfriend…who wrote the only online review of Juliet, Naked that isn’t full of fawning praise. Is Tucker Crowe as good as Duncan thinks? Or is he as adequate as Annie claims?

Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue