Music
-
Elegant People: A History of the Band Weather Report
$32.95 Read moreElegant People is the definitive history of Weather Report, the premier fusion band of the 1970s and beyond.
Founded in late 1970 by three stars of the jazz world–keyboardist Joe Zawinul, saxophonist
- Author: Bianchi, Curt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1493059998
- Language: English
-
I Am Charlie Wilson
$17.99 Read moreThe long-awaited New York Times bestselling memoir of seven-time Grammy-nominated artist Charlie Wilson, the iconic R&B and Funk singer-songwriter-producer and former lead singer of The Gap Band–inte… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1476790086
- Language: English
-
My Life with Deth: Discovering Meaning in a Life of Rock & Roll
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the hardest headbangers of heavy metal shares his uplifting and empowering memoir about overcoming addiction and discovering a life of faith.In My Life with Deth, cofounder and bassist of Mega-… [more below]
- Author: Ellefson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1476728224
- Language: English
-
Never Look at the Empty Seats: A Memoir
$19.99 Read moreThe Incredible Story of a Country Music Legend.
Few artists have left a more indelible mark on America’s musical landscape than Charlie Daniels.
Readers will experience a soft, personal side of Charlie
- Author: Daniels, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1400334292
- Language: English
-
The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartThe remarkable story of rising to the top of the music charts, a second act as a tech pioneer, and the sustaining power of creativity and art.
Thomas Dolby’s hit songs “She Blinded Me with Science” an- Author: Dolby, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1250138760
- Language: English
-
Rocks Off
$28.00 Add to cartDecember 3-4, 1969. Keith and Mick stood at the same microphone at Muscle Shoals, lights dimmed, splitting a fifth of bourbon, and simultaneously sang the melodies and harmonies on the three songs tha
- Author: Janovitz, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1250049520
- Language: English
-
Ghetto Classics: How a Youth Orchestra Changed a Nairobi Slum
$16.95 Add to cartSituated next to the Kenyan capital’s largest garbage dump, the Nairobi slum of Korogocho might seem like one of the least likely places on the planet where a youth orchestra has found itself a home.
- Author: Brownell, Ginanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: March 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1958363502
- Language: English
-
A Luthier’s Life: The Guitar Odyssey of Roger Fritz
$29.95 Read moreFrom the Alabama Gulf Coast to Nashville to the redwood forests of northern California, luthier Roger Fritz has spent almost an entire lifetime crafting innovative musical instruments for professional
- Author: Moseley, Willie G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 195602753X
- Language: English
-
Makin’ A Joyful Noise: The Lives and Times of the (Slightly) Fabulous Limeliters
$25.99 Add to cartThe Limeliters were the most vibrant urban folk group of the early 1960s, second only to the Kingston Trio in popularity at their peak. They were a diverse, volatile mix of highly intelligent personal
- Author: Ginell, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218286682
- Language: English
-
Bowie Legends Alphabet
$19.95 Add to cartFrom Aladdin Sane to Ziggy Stardust, The Jean Genie to Rebel Rebel, Bowie Legends Alphabet charts the A to Z of characters, charisma, and hits of the legendary David Bowie. Stylishly illustrated and p… [more below]
- Author: Feiner, Beck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0645487007
- Language: English
-
The Lives of the Great Composers
$39.95 Add to cartIn this new edition, Harold Schonberg offers music lovers a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the author contends, is a continually evolving art, and all geniuses, unique as they are… [more below]
- Author: Schonberg, Harold C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0393038572
- Language: English
-
Dream Boogie
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Last Train to Memphis, this is the definitive biography of Sam Cooke, one of most influential singers and songwriters of all time.
Sam Cooke was among the first to blend- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0316013293
- Language: English
-
A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage
$21.99 Add to cart“Part memoir, part discourse on the art of music. . . . This is an intelligent, thoughtful look into the mind of an artist.”–New York Times Book Review
Since the release of his first best-selling al- Author: Jackson, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0306810018
- Language: English
-
Backbeat: Earl Palmer’s Story
$19.99 Add to cartThere he is, drumming on “Tutti Frutti,” “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” and thousands of other songs. As a studio player in New Orleans and Los Angeles from the 1940s through the 1970s, Earl Palme… [more below]
- Author: Scherman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 07 2005
- ISBN10: 030680980X
- Language: English
-
Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
$24.99 Add to cart“The best biography of any jazz musician that we have. Bird Lives! will stand for a long time as a major source of information and illumination not only of the great musician with whom it deals but of… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 22 1996
- ISBN10: 0306806797
- Language: English
-
Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001)
$35.99 Add to cartThe Eagles are the bestselling, and arguably the tightest-lipped, American group ever. Now band member and guitarist Don Felder finally breaks the Eagles’ years of public silence to take fans behind t… [more below]
- Author: Felder, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0470289066
- Language: English
-
Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
$20.00 Read more“A terrific biography of a rock innovator that hums with juicy detail and wincing truth. . . . Page after page groans with the folly of the ’60s drug culture, the tragedy of talent toasted before its … [more below]
- Author: Meyer, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0345503368
- Language: English
-
One Train Later: A Memoir
$25.00 Add to cartA disarming, surprising literary memoir by the ex-Police guitarist . . . A rollicking you-are-there history of the 60s-80s rock era.—Entertainment Weekly
In this extraordinary memoir, world-renowned- Author: Summers, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 031237481X
- Language: English
-
Ginger Baker: Hellraiser: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Drummer
$16.99 Read moreThe music, the marriages, the polo, the drugs, the trans-Saharan trucking scheme–the drummer best-known for his work in Cream and his contributions to World Music tells his whole fascinating story Pe… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: July 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1844549666
- Language: English
-
Elvis and Gladys
$25.00 Add to cartWho on the planet doesn’t know that Elvis Presley gave electrifying performances and enthralled millions? Who doesn’t know that he was the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll? But who knows that the King himself li… [more below]
- Series: Southern Icons
- Author: Dundy, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1578066344
- Language: English
