Folk Traditional category: 475 books

Louisiana Fiddlers shines light on sixty-two of the bayou state's most accomplished fiddlers of the twentieth century. Author Ron Yule outlines the lives and times of these performers, who represent a multitude of fiddling styles including Cajun, country, western swing, zydeco, bluegrass, Irish, contest...

Award winning songwriter, musician, author, playwright, poet, visual artist, and Appalachian Renaissance man Billy Edd Wheeler is best known for penning "Jackson," which was popularized by Johnny Cash and June Carter with their Grammy-winning recording from 1967. In addition to his own albums...

Popular Problems is the thirteenth studio album by legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. This matching songbook features all of the songs from the album arranged for Piano, Vocal and Guitar. Released a day after his 80th birthday to wide critical acclaim, Leonard Cohen's thirteenth album...

(Fretted). Presents scale diagrams for the most often-used scales and modes in an orderly and easily accessible fashion. Use this book as a reference guide or as the foundation for creating an in-depth practice routine. Includes multiple patterns for each scale, a lesson on scale construction, and a fingerboard chart of the mandolin neck.

This popular text blends the haunting, sweet voice of the mountain dulcimer with treasured gospel and sacred melodies. Contains 37 outstanding arrangements in standard notation and tab with lyrics and suggested guitar chords. Dulcimer chord diagrams are also shown.

If you are looking for exciting and challenging fiddle solos by one of America's hottest fiddlers, this book is for you. Contains Craig's outstanding fiddle arrangements on: Dueling Fiddles; Rocky Top; Black Mountain Rag; Tennessee Waltz; Faded Love; Cajun Fiddle; Jole Blon; Gardenia Waltz; Draggin'...

Complete Piano Player: Bob Dylan contains 13 classic Bob Dylan songs, with explanations for fingering and chords, that will feel familiar to those who have previously used the Complete Piano Player teaching books. This is an ideal companion songbook to the best-selling tuition series which will provide...

There are some songs that are great to sing, but just end too soon. Here are additional lyrics (or replacement lyrics) to Everybody's Talkin', Old Five and Dimers, Chilly Winds, Gotta Travel On, Green Green Grass of Home, Hickory Winds, and Today.

Unter dem Titel Des Knaben Wunderhorn veröffentlichten Clemens Brentano und Achim von Arnim von 1805 bis 1808 eine Sammlung von Volksliedtexten in drei Bänden. Es enthält Liebes-, Soldaten-, Wander- und Kinderlieder vom Mittelalter bis ins 18. Jahrhundert. (aus wikipedia.de)

A musical life as glorious metaphor for Florida's cultural landscape. This biography of 97-year-old Richard Seaman, who grew up in Kissimmee Park, Florida, relies on oral history and folklore research to define the place of musicianship and storytelling in the state's history from one artist's...

This is a Ukulele Christmas Song Book Two for parents and children to play together. After the success of putting out Ukulele Christmas Song Book One, I received a lot of requests to put together more Christmas and Holiday songs for Book Two. Here are another 20 all-time-favorite Christmas...

You've played "Over the Waterfall," marched along to "Soldier's Joy" and perhaps even found your fortune while trotting along on that "Old Spotted Pony." Now it's time to take the next step; beyond the waterfall to the land of lesser-played tunes. Inside this volume...

In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history. Volume 2 of...