About Beyond the Song by Carol Selick:
Singer-songwriter Carol Selick traces her coming of age in the tumultuous ’Sixties and early ’Seventies in a new autobiographical novel, “Beyond the Song.” Beginning each chapter with lyrics she wrote and still performs today, Selick breezily describes the development of her alter-ego, Carol Marks, as she rebels against her strict suburban upbringing and joins the counter-culture, hoping to make it in the music business.
Along the way she lands in a series of dangerous situations and narrow escapes – hitchhiking in California at the time of the Manson murders, attending anti-war demonstrations that turn violent, and nearly being arrested when her boyfriend is nabbed in a drug raid.
In her journey, she also meets two important mentors who help her sort her priorities and take her goals seriously. One, based on Music Hall of Famer Rose Marie McCoy, helps her develop her considerable talents; and the other, a fictionalized psychoanalyst, helps her establish the self-assurance to stand on her own two feet as well as realize that much of her father’s over-protectiveness stems from losing his family in the Holocaust.
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Author Bio:
The author, who was raised in New Jersey, eventually graduated from Rutgers and currently lives in Monroe, now performs a repertoire of jazz, rhythm and blues, pop, and her own work. Selick taught piano and voice for many years, and her recordings include “Life Is Believing in You “and “Just Gonna Think About Today.” She appears as a vocalist with her husband, jazz trumpeter and vocalist Gordon James, and performs the bluesy vocals on his 2019 release, “Come On Down,” which has been described as “piping-hot New Orleans fare.”