The book "Take the Tracks I Left" is the complete biography of the popular composer Theodore Derveniotis, written in a narrative style by his son, using memories, experiences, and traces left by his father in oral and written accounts.

The life of Derveniotis was defined and shaped by post-war popular music, marked by events, places, milestones, and personalities of the Greek recording industry. The "black song" of the 1950s. Columbia. Odeon, later Minos. The Μπαράκι του Μάριου, the clubs where "you wouldn't even stop to change a broken string." Evthihia. Kazantzidis. The highly productive collaboration with Virvos. The insistence on Byzantine modes. The war from the companies. EMSI and the dream of self-management. "Complaints and cries" and "Your eyes tell me otherwise," "An empty plate on the table" and "Put on the red dress." The joys and sorrows of a nation "that celebrates while crying and cries while laughing."

In 2022, it marked one hundred years since the composer’s birth. In 2024, it will be twenty years since his death. Anniversaries that provide an opportunity to unravel the thread of a significant era in Greek recording history, simultaneously bringing to life the "humble greatness" that was Theodore Derveniotis.