Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be
Encyclopedia
Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be is a book by Boston, Massachusetts-based musician Jen Trynin
. The book chronicles her short career as a musician on Warner Bros.
Records, from her start as an indie rock
musician in Boston to her promotion of her album Cockamamie
after its release on Warner Bros.
The book was released to generally strong reviews, with Entertainment Weekly
giving it an A-, and Village Voice critic Robert Christgau
saying that the book "did for [him] what Cockamamie never did until [he] read her book--grabbed and held."
Jen Trynin
Jennifer Trynin, also credited as Jen Trynin, is an American singer-songwriter and author from Boston, Massachusetts.She recorded her debut album Cockamamie in 1994 at the age of thirty-one while running her own desktop publishing business. The track "Better Than Nothing" received considerable...
. The book chronicles her short career as a musician on Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
Records, from her start as an indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
musician in Boston to her promotion of her album Cockamamie
Cockamamie
Cockamamie is the debut album from Boston, Massachusetts-based musician Jen Trynin. Released in 1995 to generally positive acclaim, the album failed to do well on the charts....
after its release on Warner Bros.
The book was released to generally strong reviews, with Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
giving it an A-, and Village Voice critic Robert Christgau
Robert Christgau
Robert Christgau is an American essayist, music journalist, and self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics".One of the earliest professional rock critics, Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, published since 1969 in his Consumer Guide columns...
saying that the book "did for [him] what Cockamamie never did until [he] read her book--grabbed and held."