Folk & Traditional
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Bob Dylan’s New York: A Historic Guide
$19.95 Add to cartA walking tour and history of Bob Dylan’s life and time in New York, from Greenwich Village to Woodstock.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Weissman, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1438490860
- Language: English
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Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
$18.99 Add to cartTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. One of the music world’s pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan “went electric” at the Newport Folk Fe
- Author: Wald, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062366696
- Language: English
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A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman
$34.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of songwriter Randy Newman, told with his full cooperation, by acclaimed biographer and longtime Los Angeles Times music critic, Robert Hilburn
Randy Newman is widely hailed- Author: Hilburn, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0306834693
- Language: English
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The Martin Ukulele: The Little Instrument That Helped Create a Guitar Giant
$35.00 Read more(Book). The Martin Ukulele is a detailed look at the ukuleles built by the C. F. Martin Co. of Nazareth, PA, and at how the instruments’ success forever changed the company that made them. Martin’s uk… [more below]
- Author: King, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1476868794
- Language: English
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I.W.W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent: A Facsimile Reprint of the Nineteenth Edition (1923) of the Little Red Song Book
$5.95 Add to cartA RADICAL LABOR CLASSIC
Undoubtedly the most popular book in American labor history, the I.W.W.’s Little Red Song Book has been a staple item on picket lines and at other workers’ gatherings for gener
- Series: PM Pamphlet
- Author: Industrial Workers of the World (I W. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: February 24 2014
- ISBN10: 160486950X
- Language: English
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Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words
$29.95 Add to cartWhen singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she’d first met late one night in 1966… [more below]
- Author: Marom, Malka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1770411321
- Language: English
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I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling, definitive biography of legendary artist Leonard Cohen, now with new afterword by the author
“There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”
— Leonard
- Author: Simmons, Sylvie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0063114909
- Language: English
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America Over the Water
$22.99 Read more‘Shirley is a time traveller, a conduit for essential human aches, one of the greatest artists who ever lived’ Stewart Lee
‘Without doubt one of England’s greatest cultural treasures’ Billy Bragg In A- Author: Collins, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1474623379
- Language: English
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Big Red Songbook: 250+ Iww Songs!
$34.95 Read moreIn 1905, representatives from dozens of radical labor groups came together in Chicago to form One Big Union–the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), known as the Wobblies. The union was a big prese
- Series: Charles H. Kerr Library
- Author: Green, Archie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1629631299
- Language: English
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All Join Hands: Dudley Laufman & the New England Country Dance Tradition
$25.00 Read moreAll Join Hands is the story of what happened when a ten-thousand-year-old musical tradition was
put into the hands of a seventeen-year-old Boston boy in 1947. While in high school, Dudley
Laufman appren- Author: Curren, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1942155557
- Language: English
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Accordions, Fiddles, Two Step & Swing: A Cajun Music Reader
$25.00 Read more- Author: Brasseaux, Ryan A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 535
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1887366717
- Language: English
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Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975
$16.95 Read moreA Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021
“Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and dit- Author: Thompson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1643752537
- Language: English
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Court and Spark
$14.95 Read moreCourt and Spark is Joni Mitchell’s most overt attempt at making a hit record, full of glossy production, catchy choruses, and even guest stars from every stratum of rock culture, high (Robbie Robertso
- Series: 33 1/3 #40
- Author: Nelson, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0826417736
- Language: English
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Pickers and Poets: The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas
$32.95 Read moreMany books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music–its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relatio… [more below]
- Series: John and Robin Dickson Texas Music, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas
- Author: Clifford, Craig E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1648432115
- Language: English
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Cool Wooden Box: Transformation of the American Acoustic Guitar
$29.95 Add to cartBeginning with a comparison of the American acoustic guitar world in the early 1960s with that of today, then describing iconic performances at storied venues such as The Ark in Ann Arbor while meticu
- Series: Charles K. Wolfe Music
- Author: Smith, W. Rand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1621907856
- Language: English
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken: The Making of a Landmark Album, 50th Anniversary
$50.00 Read moreThe 1971 collaboration of legendary Nashville bluegrass musicians and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, a Southern California country-rock-jug group, was the genesis of Will the Circle Be Unbroken, which Ro… [more below]
- Author: McEuen, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493062336
- Language: English
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The Nobel Lecture
$17.99 Read morePublished for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2016 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan.
On October 13, 2016, Bob Dylan was a- Author: Dylan, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1501189409
- Language: English
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Banjo: An Illustrated History
$35.00 Read moreThe banjo is emblematic of American country music, and it is at the core of other important musical movements, including jazz and ragtime. The instrument has been adopted by many cultures and has been… [more below]
- Author: Carlin, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1495011240
- Language: English
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Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting
$29.00 Read more“A handbook for compassion… a Must-Read Music Book.”
“Generous and big-hearted, Gauthier has stories to tell and worthwhile advice to share.” —Wally Lamb, author of I Know Th
—Rolling Stone Country- Author: Gauthier, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1250202116
- Language: English
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I.W.W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent: A Facsimile Reprint of the Nineteenth Edition (1923) of the Little Red Song Book
$5.95 Read moreA RADICAL LABOR CLASSIC
Undoubtedly the most popular book in American labor history, the I.W.W.’s Little Red Song Book has been a staple item on picket lines and at other workers’ gatherings for gener
- Series: PM Pamphlet
- Author: Industrial Workers of the World (I W. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: February 24 2014
- ISBN10: 160486950X
- Language: English
