Music
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Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography
$22.95 Read moreThe basis of a full-length documentary.
Moondog is one of America’s great originals.–Alan Rich, New York Magazine
Here is a revised edition of a book that celebrates one of the most improbable lives of
- Author: Scotto, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1934170402
- Language: English
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Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston
$18.00 Read moreDidn’t We Almost Have It All is a candid exploration of the genius, shame, and celebrity of Whitney Houston.
Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR . . . SO FAR by The New Yorker
Named a BEST BOOK OF THE MONT- Author: Kennedy, Gerrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1419752979
- Language: English
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Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker
$25.99 Add to cartThis first major biography of the most romanticized icon in jazz thrillingly recounts his wild ride. From his emergence in the 1950s–when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared on th… [more below]
- Author: Gavin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1569767572
- Language: English
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King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King
$20.00 Read moreThe first full and authoritative biography of an American–indeed a world-wide–musical and cultural legend.
“No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more
- Author: de Vise, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0802158064
- Language: English
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Pilgrims, Pickers and Honky-Tonk Heroes: My Personal Time with Music City Friends and Legends in Rock ‘n’ Roll, R&b, and a Whole Lot of Country
$29.95 Read moreHe didn’t know it at the time, but Tim Ghianni’s love affair with Nashville and its musical artists began on a steamy night in 1972, when the twenty-year-old author had unsolicited help from honky-ton
- Author: Ghianni, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072153
- Language: English
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Bang Bang Crash
$16.95 Read moreA rock and roll drummer abandons his successful music career to pursue his true passion and discovers a deeper understanding of artistic fulfillment in this episodic memoir of swapping one dream for a… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Nic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1640094407
- Language: English
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
$20.00 Read moreWalking his two young children to school every morning, Thad Carhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Paris neighborhood. Intrigued by its simple sign–Desforges Pianos–he enters, only t… [more below]
- Author: Carhart, Thad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0375758623
- Language: English
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Bass Notes: Jazz in American Culture: A Personal View
$37.95 Read moreFrom his upbringing as a “red-diaper baby” among some of the leading lights of American music and Left politics, to his legendary work as bassist for the Bill Evans trio, to his collaborations with su
- Author: Israels, Chuck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493074849
- Language: English
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Tupac Shakur
$24.99 Add to cartThe son of a black panther activist, Tupac had a short childhood in Harlem and the Bronx, and a violent adolescence as a drug dealer, before he found fame with his first ‘gangsta rap’ album 2Pacalypse
- Author: Vibe, Editors Of
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 085965561X
- Language: English
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Reba: My Story
$9.99 Read moreWith the same straightforward honesty that made her one of country’s top-selling female recording artists, Reba McEntire tells her phenomenal story.
From her childhood in Oklahoma working cattle with- Author: McEntire, Reba
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0553572385
- Language: English
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Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times
$28.95 Read moreNeil Peart decided to drive his BMW Z-8 automobile from L.A. to Big Bend National Park, in Southwest Texas. As he sped along “between the gas-gulping SUVs and asthmatic Japanese compacts clumping in t… [more below]
- Author: Peart, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: August 03 2004
- ISBN10: 1550226649
- Language: English
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I’m in the Band: Backstage Notes from the Chick in White Zombie
$28.95 Add to cart“A fascinating scrapbook documenting a time in the life of a female musician . . . Tales of tours, blowouts, relationships with names such as The Cramps, Pantera, Ramones, Alice Cooper, Kyuss, Monster… [more below]
- Author: Yseult, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1593762992
- Language: English
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My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob and Me
$32.95 Read more“Terri Thal’s memoir is told from the privileged position of not only having been there for the crowning, but as a woman on the cultural front lines. Her detailed recall brings a fresh perspective on … [more below]
- Author: Thal, Terri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0857162489
- Language: English
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Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic
$34.99 Read moreFreddie Mercury was one of rock’s most dazzling front men. When he died in 1991, the music world lost one of its most flamboyant characters, as well as a supremely talented writer and vocalist. Best k… [more below]
- Author: Blake, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1495030113
- Language: English
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Long Train Runnin’: Our Story of the Doobie Brothers
$20.00 Read moreFor the first time, the incredible true story of the legendary band, the Doobie Brothers, written by founding members Pat Simmons and Tom Johnston.
Only a very few rock bands have had the longevity, su- Author: Simmons, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 125061886X
- Language: English
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George Michael: A Life
$20.00 Read moreIn George Michael: A Life, “Gavin’s engrossing biography of the singer takes the measure of a gifted, tragic, and infuriating man” (New York Times Book Review).
George Michael was an extravagantly gi- Author: Gavin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1419768352
- Language: English
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Bob Marley: A Life
$17.00 Read moreOne of the twentieth century’s most iconic cultural figures, Bob Marley was responsible for popularizing reggae music throughout the world. He set attendance records that still stand today and his 197… [more below]
- Author: Steckles, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1566567335
- Language: English
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Sideman: In Pursuit of the Next Gig
$30.00 Read more“Narrative & Biography” winnner in the 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards
While most successful sidemen are lucky to spend a decade in the music business, multi-instrumentalist Mark Rivera is workin- Author: Rivera, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1637742991
- Language: English
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Born to Run
$35.00 Add to cartThe revelatory and wildly bestselling memoir by legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen: “Glorious…a philosophically rich ramble through a rock ‘n roll life…It’s the lyric he was born to write” (USA… [more below]
- Author: Springsteen, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1501141511
- Language: English
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Cronies, a Burlesque: Adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead
$30.00 Add to cartA bullet train of a book, fast-paced, hilarious, rich with action. A harbinger of good things to come in mysterious ways.
It all began at a cocktail party at Wallace Stegner’s for the Stanford writing
- Author: Babbs, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 518
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0989446298
- Language: English
