Patsy: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline
Pub Overstock Unlimited Inc, June 1995. Trade Paperback. More
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Faithfull: An Autobiography
Little Brown & Co (P), July 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Odetta’s One Grain of Sand (33 1/3)
Bloomsbury Academic, April 2019. Paper Back. When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become "the next Marian Anderson"-veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk tunes before mixed-race audiences in 1950s coffee..... More
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present
Liveright, November 2021. Hardcover. PRE-ORDER. Your book will be available on November 2nd. More
Jazz Memories: A Book of Days
Oxmoor House, June 1990. Hardcover. More
Tom Petty’s Southern Accents (33 1/3)
Bloomsbury Academic, October 2018. Paper Back. By 1985 Tom Petty had already obtained legendary status. He had fame. He had money. But he was restless, hoping to stretch his artistry beyond the confining format of songs like "The Waiting" and "Refugee." Petty's response to his restlessness was Southern Accents. Initially..... More
Songcatchers: In Search of the World's Music
National Geographic, June 2003. Hardcover. Mickey Hart, drummer for the Grateful Dead, travels to record, capture, and preserve the musical traditions of the world, discussing the musical cultures he discovers and the technology used to preserve these traditions. Very good all round. More
No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York 1976-1980
Abrams Image, June 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. No Wave is the first book to visually chronicle the collision of art and punk in the New York underground of 1976 to 1980. This in depth look at punk rock, new wave, experimental music, and the avant-garde art movement of the 70s..... More
Buried Alive the Biography of Janis Joplin
Bantam, 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness
It Books, March 2011. Trade Paperback. Neil Strauss can uncover the naked truth like nobody else. With his groundbreaking book The Game, Strauss penetrated the secret society of pickup artists; now, in Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, his candid, surprising, and often hysterical interviews reveal the hidden sides of..... More
Sound of Their Music: The Story of Rodgers and Hammerstein Revised and Updated (Revised)
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, September 2002. Hardcover. The greatest partnership in the history of the musical, captured in print, wonderfully illustrated. For this new edition, the book has been completely rewritten and substantially expanded to include material on Rodgers' early career with Lorenz Hart as well as his later work..... More
I'm Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs
Backbeat, December 2020. Hardcover. Phil Ochs is known primarily as a songwriter; however, his oeuvre extends far beyond that--to short stories, poetry, criticism, journalism, and satire, all of which are included in I'm Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs, which represents the majority of what Ochs wrote..... More
Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (33 1/3, 147)
Bloomsbury Academic, September 2020. Paper Back. When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record label had refused to release his 1984 album Various Positions--including the song Hallelujah--in the United States. Luckily, Velvet Underground..... More
Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 2006. Paper Back. On the TV screen as elsewhere, there is often more than meets the eye. For decades, television has offered not just entertainment, but observations--subtle and otherwise--on society. This book examines the cultural commentary contained in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, a show..... More
Camp Lo's Uptown Saturday Night (33 1/3)
Bloomsbury Academic, October 2017. Paper Back. Geechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba are Camp Lo. These two emcees from the Bronx, NY entered the American hip hop scene with an insider slang that bewildered listeners as they radiated the look of a bygone era of black culture. In 1996, they collaborated..... More
John Lennon: The Stories Behind Every Song 1970-1980 (Stories Behind the Songs)
MJF, January 2014. Trade Paperback. More
The Nashville Sound
Everthemore Books, September 2005. Trade Paperback. More
Blackbird Singing : Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2001. Hardcover. The hardcover publication of Blackbird Singing, the first collection of Paul McCartney's poems and lyrics, was an international cultural event celebrated in concert halls, at literary festivals, and in newspapers and magazines throughout the world. "While McCartney is of a completely different..... More
D’Angelo’s Voodoo (33 1/3)
Bloomsbury Academic, March 2020. Paper Back. Voodoo, D'Angelo's much-anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as "neo-soul," a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than a decade later. The album is a product of heightened emotions and fused sensibilities; an amalgam of soul, rock..... More
Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee (33 1/3)
Bloomsbury Academic, April 2018. Paper Back. Every now and then, a song inspires a cultural conversation that ends up looking like a brawl. Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee, released in 1969, is a prime example of that important role of popular music. Okie immediately helped to frame an ongoing discussion..... More
The Rolling Stones' Rock & Roll Circus
Chronicle Books, October 1991. Soft Cover. Folio (9&12' x 13') Beautiful photo book of the Rolling Stones in 1968 at the height of their creative and influence. Stills from the set of The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus, December the 11th 1968 concert in full carnival costumes that was..... More
My Music, My Life
Mandala Publishing, January 2009. Hardcover. "My Music, My Life" chronicles the extraordinary career of India s best-known musician. Through his relationships with George Harrison and Philip Glass in the 1960s, Ravi Shankar brought Indian classical musical to the world stage and became one of the most influential musicians of the..... More
My Music, My Life
Mandala Publishing, January 2009. Hardcover. "My Music, My Life" chronicles the extraordinary career of India s best-known musician. Through his relationships with George Harrison and Philip Glass in the 1960s, Ravi Shankar brought Indian classical musical to the world stage and became one of the most influential musicians of the..... More
Lennon: Definitive Biography, The
Harper Paperbacks, December 1992. Trade Paperback. The best and most complete biography about the influential Beatle. As is. Remainder mark on the bottom edge of the print block. More
Dizzy Gillespie (Jazz Masters)
Spellmount Publishers Ltd, April 1984. Hardcover. More
