Journalist, blogger, and pop culture pundit Chris McGowan has covered Brazilian music for Billboard magazine, The Huffington Post, and his own The Brazilian Sound blog, and co-authored multiple editions of the definitive reference book on the subject—The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova and the Popular Music of Brazil. Along the way, he has interviewed many of the most important and influential legends of Brazilian music. In this new omnibus volume, McGowan presents many of these interviews in complete and unabridged form for the first time. The conversations range across the vast spectrum of Brazilian music, from samba, bossa, Tropicália, and MPB to Brazilian rock, regional music, and electronic hybrids. The material includes revealing conversations with many iconic figures in Brazilian music, such as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Milton Nascimento, Airto Moreira, Dori Caymmi, Laurindo Almeida, Antonio Adolfo, Herbert Vianna, Djavan, Ivan Lins, Gilberto Gil and Gal Costa.