Composers Musicians category: 3267 books
The God Groove
A Blues Journey to Faith
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
As a ghostwriter, biographer, and lyricist, David Ritz has worked with some of the biggest names in music, such as Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Marvin Gaye. Now, in his inspiring memoir, he shares how writing for these legendary artists led him to faith.
Over the last forty-five years,...
by Carol Clerk
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Hawkwind emerged in 1969 from Ladbroke Grove, the heartland of London’s counterculture, to become a ‘people’s band’ supported by bikers and hippies alike as they staged free gigs, benefits and protests and welcomed the involvement of any number of creative people writers, poets, dancers from...
Grown-Up Anger
The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 T
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century America—woven together in one epic saga...
Lick Me
How I Became Cherry Vanilla
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In this sexually open and disarming account of her life and the era, Cherry Vanilla tells all about her personal successes and failures and in the process explores every aspect of the music industry during its most electrifying era—complete with detours through the sexual revolution, the women’s...
Everything Is Combustible
Television, CBGB's and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Legendary Rock and Roll guitarist. Founding member of Television. Masterful storyteller. Written in Lloyd's inimitable, frequently humorous style, Everything is Combustible chronicles, through vignettes, Lloyd's colorful early life, starting in Pittsburgh and soon moving to New York City, and...
Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes
In Search of Blind Willie McTell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Evoking the turbulent past of the subject’s time and place, this odyssey to rural Georgia peels back the many layers of Blind Willie McTell’s compelling, occasionally shocking, but ultimately uplifting story. Portraying him as one of the most gifted artists of his generation, this account uncovers...
Texas Flood
The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, and foreword and afterword by Double Trouble’s Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon.
Just a few years after he almost died from a severe addiction to cocaine and alcohol, a clean and sober Stevie...
Texas Tornado
The Times and Music of Doug Sahm
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Doug Sahm was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist of legendary range and reputation. The first American musician to capitalize on the 1960s British invasion, Sahm vaulted to international fame leading a faux-British band called the Sir Douglas Quintet, whose hits included "She's About a Mover," "The...
by John Byrne Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
One of Parade's Top Ten Rock n' Roll Reads
As a road manager and filmmaker, he helped run the Janis Joplin show—and record it for posterity. Now he reveals the never-before-told story of his years with the young woman from Port Arthur who would become the first female rock and roll superstar—and...
Louis Armstrong
The Soundtrack of the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
In the twentieth century, African Americans not only helped make popular music the soundtrack of the American experience, they advanced American music as one of the preeminent shapers of the world's popular culture. Vast numbers of black American musicians deserve credit for this remarkable turn of...
by J.C. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
He was always elusive, on and off the stand; like his music, he was constantly moving, incessantly changing. Just as Charlie Parker stood astride the jazz world of the late 40s and 50s, so did John Coltrane in the late 50s and 60s.
Trane was a giant of the saxophone and a major composer. ...
Duke
The Musical Life of Duke Ellington
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was one of jazz’s greatest innovators. Join Bill Gutman as he explores the fascinating life of this legend from his birth at the turn of the century to his death at the age of seventy‑five. Interviewing Duke’s friends, fans, and fellow musicians, Gutman documents...
by Noah Mason
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."- John LennonChuck Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986; for having "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll...
by Thomas Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
"The best book ever produced about Louis Armstrong by anyone other than the man himself."—Terry Teachout, Commentary
In the early twentieth century, New Orleans was a place of colliding identities and histories, and Louis Armstrong was a gifted young man of psychological nimbleness....