The Uncool

By: Cameron Crowe

Libby audiobook 9 hours

Read by the author

Published: 2025

Genre: Memoir

Wow! I had heard part of an interview on the radio and requested the movie Almost Famous as well as this audiobook. We enjoyed watching the movie together and now I've been able to hear the author's story firsthand. Wild!

I wasn't aware of Cameron Crowe but am now fascinated! He started writing for Rolling Stone magazine as a teenager. He met and interviewed some phenomenally huge stars before he even turned 21. Then he went on to write Fast Times at Ridgemont High (which I may need to re-watch, as it's been more than a few decades . . . ). He wrote and directed other movies with which I'm familiar. Wild how much this man has done and I didn't really know who he was.

It was fun to hear his story and recognize how pieces of his memoir made it into the movie . . . the Stillwater band in the movie was an amalgam of The Allman Brothers and other groups he toured with. It still blows my mind that they welcomed him in to their backstage world and their hotel rooms. His mom is a pretty important character in both his memoir and the movie. His oldest sister didn't make it into the movie and the info about her life was heart-rending.

This is well-written and a delight to listen to, even though I'm not a huge music person.