Folk Traditional category: 475 books
Irish Fiddle Playing
A Guide for the Serious Player
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
The book is designed to make the personal aspects of traditional Irish fiddle playing, improvisation and interpretation, accessible to novice players. Drawing on his experience writing out reels, jigs and other tunes for new players at a North London session and teaching fiddle, the author conveys...
by Philip John Berthoud
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
An exciting collection of 29 traditional tunes from Ireland, arranged for easy flatpicking guitar. All tunes are written clearly in standard notation as well as guitar tablature. An accompanying audio online contains all the tunes, played at a manageable speed, with guitar accompaniment.
The...
by Gary Dahl
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Within this edition you will find original arrangements of the best-loved Christmas songs, spanning four centuries of musical development. From the traditional old English lyrics of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen which dates back to the 15th century, to the ever-beloved Jingle Bells of the 19thcentury...everyone's...
The Sandbridge Dance Tune Collection
Arrangements of Reels, Jigs, Hornpipes, Polkas and Rags for the Hammered Dulcimer
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
This collection is drawn from Ken Kolodner's extensive library of arrangements for the hammered dulcimer, developed from over 30 years of teaching thousands ofworkshops. This first book in this two-book companion collection includes traditional and original dance tunes including reels, jigs, hornpipes...
Reckless Daughter
A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
"She was like a storm." —Leonard Cohen
Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl with the guitar...
A Long Strange Trip
The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist–a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture.
From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one...
Been So Long
My Life and Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
"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 transformed his electric...
Rumours of Glory
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Following the success of I’m Your Man and Just Kids, legendary Canadian singer and songwriter Bruce Cockburn delivers his long-awaited memoir—a chronicle of faith, fear, and activism that is also a lively cultural and musical tour through the late twentieth century.
Award-winning songwriter...
by Chloe Govan
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
An in-depth look at how Mumford & Sons rose from the West London folk scene to worldwide emulation. This book details their debut EP Love Your Ground and their performances in small venues in the UK and the US which exposed enthusiastic audiences to their music and built support for an eventual...
John Denver
Mother Nature's Son
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
John Denver was America's biggest-selling solo star of the '70s. In commercial terms he was on a par with Sinatra in the '40s, Elvis in the '50s and the Beatles in the '60s. He experimented with a variety of styles and won fans from such diverse worlds as folk, pop and country music.
Beneath...
The Power of Song
Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic �Singing Revolution.� When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent force, singing Balts maintained faith in nonviolent political action....
Dance of Death
The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
John Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made more than 40 albums between 1959 and his death in 2001, most of them featuring only his solo steel-string guitar. He fused elements of folk, blues, and...
Bob Dylan
The Stories Behind the Songs 1962-1969
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
In this book, Andy Gill assess the circumstances behind Dylans most famous songs, tracing the artists progress from young tyro folkie to acclaimed protest singer, and through the subsequent changes which saw him invent folk-rock and transform rocknroll with symbolist poetry, before retreating into country-tinged...
Another Side of Bob Dylan
A Personal History on the Road and off the Tracks
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
A vivid, first-hand account of Nobel Prize-winning singer and songwriter Bob Dylan as an artist, friend, and celebrity, illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, and told by an engaging raconteur who cut his own swathe through the turbulent counterculture.
August 2014 marks 50 years since...