Markos Vamvakaris: A Pilgrim on Ancient Byzantine Roads
by Bill Benzon These songs of mine have to be played. They mustn’t be lost, they have to be out there….They’re Byzantine and their ‘roads’, their tunes are ancient. –Markos Vamvakaris To read this book, this as-told-to autobiography of Markos Vamvakaris, is to confront how strange is this thing we call writing, the child of…