Composers Musicians category: 3267 books
The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air
Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
Millions of Texans and Southwesterners have been touched over the years by the Light Crust Doughboys. From 1930 to 1952, fans faithfully tuned in to their early-morning and, later, noontime radio program, and turned out in droves to hear them play live. The Doughboys embodied the very essence of the...
Crossroads
The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The result of careful research, this stylish biography of infamous blues musician Robert Johnson reveals the real story behind the mythical talent that made him a musical legend. According to some, Robert Johnson learned guitar by trading his soul away to the Devil at a crossroads in rural Mississippi....
The Producer
John Hammond and the Soul of American Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
A "behind the music" story without parallel
John Hammond is one of the most charismatic figures in American music, a man who put on record much of the music we cherish today. Dunstan Prial's biography presents Hammond's life as a gripping story of music, money, fame, and racial conflict,...
Fool the World
The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
It's the 1980s and the rock landscape is littered with massive hair, synthesizers, and monster riffs, but there is an alternative being born in the sleepy East of America-we just don't know it yet.
Before the Internet, MTV, and iPods provided far-off music fans with information and communities-and...
Where Are You Now, Bo Diddley?
The Stars Who Made Us Rock and Where They Are Now
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
From the jumping rock and blues joints of the 1950s to Woodstock and beyond, Where Are You Now, Bo Diddley? takes a close look at forty-seven musicians whose unique contributions to their thrilling era will never be forgotten.
You Don't Know Me
Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the man behind the legend - by his eldest son.
Ray Charles is an American music legend. A multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, and singer with an inimitable vocal style and a catalog of hits including "What I Say,"...
Writing Gordon Lightfoot
The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
From acclaimed musician and author Dave Bidini comes a brilliantly original look at a folk-rock legend and the momentous week in 1972 that culminated in the Mariposa Folk Festival.
July, 1972. As musicians across Canada prepare for the nation's biggest folk festival, held on Toronto Island,...
Pepper Adams' Joy Road
An Annotated Discography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Pepper Adams' Joy Road is more than a compendium of sessions and gigs done by the greatest baritone saxophone soloist in history. It's a fascinating overview of Adams' life and times, thanks to colorful interview vignettes, drawn from the author's unpublished conversations with Adams and other musicians....
Shostakovich
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 1999
For this authoritative post-cold-war biography of Shostakovich's illustrious but turbulent career under Soviet rule, Laurel E. Fay has gone back to primary documents: Shostakovich's many letters, concert programs and reviews, newspaper articles, and diaries of his contemporaries. An indefatigable...
Nico
The End
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1994
Nico’s keyboardist recounts her ill-advised eighties tour in this “funny memoir . . . A well-written black comedy” of life on the fringes of rock & roll (The New York Times).
This is the story of the last “scene” of the art rock diva Nico, whose fifteen minutes of fame included...
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
"In what is the most comprehensive biography of the group to date, Browne compiles a fun and fast-paced music history.... an authoritative chronicle." --Publishers Weekly
The first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, by acclaimed music journalist...
by Sam Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Autumn, 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue - a rag-tag variety show, a travelling gypsy circus - swept across the Northeast US. Bob Dylan helmed the chaotic caravan, gathering a host of stars in his wake: Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, T-Bone Burnett, Joni Mitchell and others.
The...
Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs
Portraits from a Musical Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The former Uncle Tupelo and current Son Volt musician presents snapshots of the people and places he encountered during his decades-long touring career.
In this collection of beautifully crafted autobiographical vignettes, Jay Farrar visits the places he’s journeyed to during his more than...
Fiddling Way Out Yonder
The Life and Music of Melvin Wine
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2002
From a small mountain town in West Virginia, elder fiddler Melvin Wine has inspired musicians and music enthusiasts far beyond his homeplace. Music, community, and tradition influence all aspects of life in this rural region. Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine shows how in Wine's...