David McKay Co, January 1974. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $8.95 on flap. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Mild tanning to end papers. Some foxing & darkening to top textblock edge. A sprinkle of foxing fore-edge. Clean internally without..... More
Bloomsbury Academic, November 2020. Paper Back. In 1973, the musical collective 24-Carat Black released an unheralded masterpiece on Stax Records-and then disappeared. Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth, a soul-funk concept album primarily written by the ex-Motown arranger Dale Warren, was too bleak, ambitious, or just outright bizarre to reach mainstream audiences. 24-Carat..... More
Edwin F. Kalmus, January 1932. Stapled Soft Cover. Some marginal notes. More
Black Wolf Press, May 2003. Trade Paperback. The mainstream music industry is in historic decline, but the small substream world of folk music is thriving as never before. Why? This book, written by renowned folk critic Scott Alarik, creates an intimate portrait of the modern folk world in interview. More
Pub Group West, August 2000. Trade Paperback. On the heels of swing, bebop lifted jazz from the dance floor into an art form powered by virtuoso players. This engaging collection of essays, biographies and reviews by veteran jazz journalist Scott Yanow probes the lives and revolutionary works of more than..... More
Friedman/Fairfax Publishing, June 1999. Hardcover. During a career that spanned over half a century Duke Ellington wrote more than a thousand compositions, toured the world with his orchestra ceaselessly, and became one of the most influential musicians in jazz -- and there is no better celebration of the Duke's life..... More
University of Central Arkansas, January 2017. Magazine. As new sill sealed in clear never opened plastic sleeve. Never read. CD never played; with Download. Topics include Loretta Lynn, J.D. Wilkes, James Lindsey, Les McCann, much more. More
Simon & Schuster, November 1972. First Edition. Cloth. First/first. Blue cloth with white & black lettering on spine. Facsimile black Pete Seeger signature (with banjo drawing) on front board. White stains on spine. End pages red stock. Faint foxing & small splattering of stains textblock fore-edge. More
Ecco, November 2010. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a...... More
Ecco, November 2010. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a...... More
Beacon Press, October 2020. Hardcover. Dismantles the Woody Guthrie we have been taught--the rough-and-ready ramblin' man--to reveal an artist who discovered how intimacy is crucial for political struggle Woody Guthrie is often mythologized as the classic American "ramblin' man," a real-life Steinbeckian folk hero who fought for working-class interests and..... More
Re/Search Publications, April 2006. Trade Paperback. Cultural Writing. PUNK '77 is told in a mosaic of anecdotes, rants, gossips, and self-aggrandizements by the prototypical punks, scenesters, musicians and artists who lived the explosion of the San Francisco punk scene circa 1977, ending with the Sex Pistols' infamous last performance January..... More
Grossman Publishers, January 1972. First American. Hardcover. First US in mildly edgeworn jacket with crease in front flap. NOT price clipped. Original price of $15 on flap. Red cloth. More
Continuum International Publishing Group, September 2007. Trade Paperback. Stephen Catanzarite takes a close look at what many consider to be U2's most fully formed album through the prisms of religion, politics, spirituality, and culture, illuminating its previously unexplored depths, arguing that it's a concept album about love and the fall..... More
Vigliano Books, July 2014. Trade Paperback. In March of 1973, young music journalist Stephen Davis was given the assignment of a lifetime: a rare interview with the legendary Miles Davis. What transpired was both a clash of worlds and a union of musical minds. Compiled here is the fruit of..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 1999. First Trade. Hardcover. There is no more beloved musician in the classical world than Isaac Stern, revered not only as a great violinist but also as a generous personality and a crucial figure in the world of the arts. One of the few people who..... More
Thomas Nelson, September 2004. Hardcover. Johnny Cash is one of the most influential figures in music and American popular culture today. While he was an icon to people of all ages during his life, Cash's legacy continues after his death. His remarkable story is captured in this exclusive authorized biography..... More
Treehouse Books, Glasgow, June 1997. Stapled Soft Cover. 16mo. Damp stained. More
West of the Moon Books, September 1999. Oversize Softcover. Light shelf wear. A small scuff on the back cover. More
Amadeus Press, September 2013. Oversize Softcover. Richard Wagner: The Lighter Side appeals to classical music and opera enthusiasts in general, but particularly the many thousands of members of the 135 Wagner Societies around the world. There are many books about every aspect of Wagner's life and works, but none has..... More
Mariner Books, October 2010. Trade Paperback. Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. He was a phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist, and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts four decades after he cut..... More
Hal Leonard, November 1987. Paper Back. (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Matching folio to these albums recently released on compact disc. 30 songs featuring: All You Need Is Love * Back in the USSR * Birthday * Blackbird * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Revolution * While My Guitar Gently Weeps * Yellow Submarine..... More
Algonquin Books, April 2021. Hardcover. An intimate look at the early years of one of the world's most significant and influential guitarists and songwriters. In this moving and immersive memoir, Richard Thompson, international and longtime beloved music legend, recreates the spirit of the 1960s, where he found, and then lost..... More
N/A, September 1998. Trade Paperback. Bob Marley was the undisputed sovereign of reggae music and the revolutionary soul-prophet whose music had - and continues to have - a massive impact on people of all races throughout the world. Catch a Fire chronicles his life and career as well as the..... More
N/A, September 1998. Trade Paperback. Bob Marley was the undisputed sovereign of reggae music and the revolutionary soul-prophet whose music had - and continues to have - a massive impact on people of all races throughout the world. Catch a Fire chronicles his life and career as well as the..... More
