Music
George Michael's Faith (33 1/3)
Bloomsbury Academic, June 2022. Paper Back. On Saturday, June 28, 1986, George Michael picked up his tasselled leather jacket, walked out of London's Wembley Stadium and cheerfully tore up five years of glittering pop history. He'd just disposed of Wham!, the band he'd formed with school friend Andrew Ridgeley when..... More
Haydn (The Master musicians series)
Dent, November 1977. Reprint. Paper Back. 12mo. Rubbing. Previous owner's name in ink. [271 pages]. More
Schubert (Master Musicians Series) N499
J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1978. Reprint. Paper Back. 12mo with vertical, superficial crease along spine. Previous reader's name in ink half title page. [233 pages]. More
Harold Prince: From Pajama Game to Phantom of the Opera (Theater and Dramatic Studies)
Umi Research Pr, May 1989. Paper Back. Dust stains/foxing: very heavy top edge and fore-edge. Interior text without markings. [443 pp.]. More
The Gershwin Years
Doubleday, January 1973. Cloth. {7' x 10 & 1/4'} In dustjacket with rubbing/soiling, edgewear, darkened edges & clipped flap. Plum colored cloth boards with gold lettering along spine. Cobalt blue end pages. Dust stained top edge. [416 pages]. More
Nick Drake: The Life
Hachette Books, November 2023. Hardcover. Experience the definitive biography of one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the twentieth century with this eye-opening book featuring a foreword by Gabrielle Drake and over 75 photos, many rare or previously unseen. In 1968, Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product of..... More
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
Amistad Press, April 2020. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson opens up about his amazing comeback--from tragic personal loss to thriving businessman and cable's highest-paid executive--in this unique self-help guide, his first since his blockbuster New York Times bestseller The 50th Law. In..... More
Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage
Da Capo Press, November 2000. Trade Paperback. "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 album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has..... More
Choral Music: A Symposium
Penguin Books, 1978. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild wear to mass market paperback. Previous owner's name in ink upper right corner of first inside page. [448 pages]. More
The Walrus and the Elephants: John Lennon's Years of Revolution
Seven Stories Press, December 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Nineteen-seventy-one was the year John Lennon left London and pop stardom for a life in New York City as a solo artist, record producer and activist looking to help end the war in Vietnam. He settled in Greenwich Village and quickly came..... More
You Can Make It If You Try: The Ted Jarrett Story of R&B in Nashville
Hillsboro Press, December 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Ted Jarrett has been a central figure in Music City's thriving rhythm & blues scene since the 1950s, working as a hit songwriter, musician, producer, label chief, artist manager, talent scout, and disc jockey. You Can Make It If You Try provides..... More
Runaway American Dream : Listening to Bruce Springsteen
Perseus Books Group, June 2005. Trade Paperback. Over the course of a career now in its fourth decade, Bruce Springsteen has earned one of the most passionate, devoted followings in all rock 'n' roll. He's selling more records and concert tickets in his fifties than he sold in his twenties..... More
Niagra Blues : Slingerland (scp002)
Single Cell Press, November 2006. First Edition. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. (Five & 1/2-inch x Eight & 1/2-inch) Mild shelfwear. Signed by Danen Jobe on title page, first inside page. Sold at A Cappella Books in store event sometime in 2006, but I do not recall the exact date. This 64..... More
Were Desperate : The Punk Rock Photography of Jim Jocoy, Sf/LA 1978-1980
Power House Books, October 2002. Hardcover. 1977: Punk rock music and fashion blew out of New York City, exploded in London, and caught like wildfire in San Francisco, Los Angeles and the world over. It developed concurrently everywhere, and every region had it's own identity. But it was in San..... More
Willie T. - The Untold Story of Willie 'Bill' Johnson and His Life Before, During, and After the Golden Gate Quartet
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, December 2012. Trade Paperback. Biography/Historical Fiction For the first time ever, a biography of Willie Thomas Johnson--founder, narrator, lyricist, and creative force behind the Golden Gate Quartet from 1931 to 1947-- is available for musicians, historians, Golden Gate Quartet fans, and anyone who wants to know..... More
Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour
Grove Pr, April 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "Book of the Year." -- MOJO Magazine"Outstanding Book of the Year." --The Herald (Glasgow) A Best Book of the Year by NPR, Pitchfork, The Telegraph, and Uncut A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in..... More
Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record
Feral House, November 2023. Paper Back. Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic-- our human need to document the horrors of the world around us. The murder ballad, here expanded to include songs about traumatic loss in modern variants and..... More
Rolling Stone the Seventies: The Seventies
Little, Brown & Company, October 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. From Watergate to water bongs, "Rolling Stone: The. First prinitng; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket Very Good, gently rubbed w/ no significant flaws to disclose; Jacket now housed in protective mylar to ensure further..... More
Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead
Duke University Press, November 2023. Paper Back. Of all the musical developments of rock in the 1960s, one in particular fundamentally changed the music's structure and listening experience: the incorporation of extended improvisation into live performances. While many bands-including Cream, Pink Floyd, and the Velvet Underground-stretched out their songs with..... More
The Rock Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge
Broadway, April 2005. Trade Paperback. At last! An A-to-Z reference guide for readers who want to learn the cryptic language of Rock Snobs, those arcana-obsessed people who speak of Rickenbacker guitars and Gram Parsons. We've all been there--trapped in a conversation with smarty-pants music fiends who natter on about the..... More
Ticket to Ride
Running Press Book Publishers, July 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. It was 40 years ago -- more or less -- that a 22year-old broadcast journalist from Florida was invited by manager Brian Epstein to travel with the Beatles to every stop on their first North American tours. The only American reporter..... More
This Thing Called Life: Prince's Odyssey, On and Off the Record
St. Martin's Press, October 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. A warm and surprisingly real-life biography, featuring never-before-seen photos, of one of rock's greatest talents: Prince. Neal Karlen was the only journalist Prince granted in-depth press interviews to for over a dozen years, from before Purple Rain to when the artist changed..... More
Been So Long: My Life and Music
St. Martin's Press, August 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. A modern parable. --from the foreword by Grace Slick "Jorma Kaukonen is a force in American music, equally adept at fingerpicked acoustic folk and blues as he is at wailing on an electric." - Acoustic Guitar "Jorma Kaukonen lit a fuse and..... More
Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll
Ecco, January 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. "We have performed side-by-side on the global stage through half a century.... In Lightning Striking, Lenny Kaye has illuminated ten facets of the jewel called rock and roll from a uniquely personal and knowledgeable perspective." -Patti Smith An insider's take on the evolution and..... More