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Biography of a Phantom
- A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
- By: Robert Mack McCormick, John Troutman - editor
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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When blues master Robert Johnson's recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise to legends that he gained success by selling his soul to the devil. Biography of a Phantom is musicologist Mack McCormick's search, from the late 1960s until McCormick's death in 2015, to uncover Johnson's life story. McCormick spent decades reconstructing Johnson's mysterious life and developing theories about his untimely death at the age of 27, but never made public his discoveries. Biography of a Phantom publishes his compelling work for the first time.
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The fickleness of blues history.
- By Hoops on 12-02-24
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Biography of a Phantom
- A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 04-04-23
- Language: English
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In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music
- By: Ben Wynne
- Narrated by: Kurt von Schmittou
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Born into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the 19th century, Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers established themselves among the most influential musicians of their era. In Tune tells the story of the parallel careers of these two pioneering recording artists - one white, one black - who moved beyond their humble origins to change the face of American music.
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Shows the shared roots of blues and country music.
- By Hoops on 29-07-18
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In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music
- Narrated by: Kurt von Schmittou
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-06-17
- Language: English
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MTV Ruled the World
- The Early Years of Music Video
- By: Greg Prato
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 23 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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There have been few times in modern music history that an instant shift in how we listen to - and view - music has occurred. However, the launch of MTV on August 1, 1981, was certainly one such occurrence. Instantly, music fans were now “listening with their eyes” rather than relying solely on their ears.
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MTV Ruled the World
- The Early Years of Music Video
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 23 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 20-01-21
- Language: English
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The World in Six Songs
- How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
- By: Daniel Levitin
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought and culture. And how, far from being a bit of a song and dance, music is at the core of what it means to be human.
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Interesting but old and not in-depth enough to make a convincing case
- By Arttu on 08-06-25
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The World in Six Songs
- How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 16-02-21
- Language: English
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Rock & Roll Nightmares
- True Stories, Volume 1
- By: Staci Layne Wilson
- Narrated by: Andy Garrison
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Kurt Cobain. GG Allin. Wendy O. Williams. Duane Allman. Travis Barker. Jimmy Page. Janis Joplin. Ozzy Osbourne. Chrissie Hynde. Dee Dee Ramone. Chris Cornell. Marc Bolan. Tommy Lee. Amy Winehouse. Jimi Hendrix. What do these artists all have in common? They’re rowdy rock stars whose over-the-top lifestyles spun out of control, landing them deep in Rock & Roll Nightmare territory. Rock & Roll Nightmares: True Stories, Volume 1 is a meticulously-researched, up-to-date, entertaining, and shocking book that rounds up the tragic tales from the 1960s to the present day.
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Rock & Roll Nightmares
- True Stories, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Andy Garrison
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 08-09-22
- Language: English
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Five Straight Lines
- A History of Music
- By: Andrew Gant
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 27 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook takes the listener on a grand musical tour from its origins in prehistory to the 21st century. It describes its roles in culture and religion in ancient China and the Middle East and how it developed in the Mediterranean world of classical Greece and Rome. Andrew Gant considers the evolution of music in medieval Europe and looks at what led to the astonishing revolution of musical forms and genres that took place in the Renaissance, first in Italy and then across the rest of Europe.
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Five Straight Lines
- A History of Music
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 27 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-12-21
- Language: English
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The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico
- 33 1/3, Book 11
- By: Joe Harvard
- Narrated by: Brian Telestai
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. And remarkably, it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967. In this book, Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed's lyrical genius to John Cale's groundbreaking instrumentation, and from the creative input of Andy Warhol to the fine details of the recording process. With input from co-producer Norman Dolph and Velvets fan Jonathan Richman, Harvard documents the creation of a record which - in the eyes of many - has never been matched.
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The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico
- 33 1/3, Book 11
- Narrated by: Brian Telestai
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Depeche Mode's 101
- 33 1/3
- By: Mary Valle
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Eight years after its founding in Basildon, Essex, Depeche Mode, rooted in 1970s Krautrock, combined old-fashioned touring, well-crafted songs, and the steadfast support of KROQ to dominate Southern California, the United States, and then the world, kicking open the doors for the likes of Nirvana in the process. 101 is the hidden-in-plain-sight hinge of modern music history.
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Depeche Mode's 101
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Perfect Tuba
- Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and Hard Work
- By: Sam Quinones
- Narrated by: Sam Quinones
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Sam Quinones, the story of a demanding instrument, the determined people who play it, and the hope they offer a fractured nation.
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The Perfect Tuba
- Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and Hard Work
- Narrated by: Sam Quinones
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 30-09-25
- Language: English
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Brothers and Sisters
- The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s
- By: Alan Paul
- Narrated by: Alan Paul
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The Allman Brothers Band’s Brothers and Sisters was not only the band’s best-selling album at over seven million copies sold, it was also a powerfully influential release, both musically and culturally, one whose influence continues to be profoundly felt.
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Brothers and Sisters
- The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s
- Narrated by: Alan Paul
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 25-07-23
- Language: English
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Mirror in the Sky
- The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks
- By: Simon Morrison
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Reflective and expansive, Mirror in the Sky situates Stevie Nicks as one of the finest songwriters of the twentieth century. This biography from distinguished music historian Simon Morrison examines Nicks as a singer and songwriter before and beyond her career with Fleetwood Mac, from the Arizona landscape of her childhood to the strobe-lit Night of 1000 Stevies celebrations.
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Quotes from various sources give the book a more rounded basis
- By Barrymx5 on 07-01-24
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Mirror in the Sky
- The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 25-10-22
- Language: English
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How Belfast Got the Blues
- A Cultural History of Popular Music in the 1960s
- By: Noel McLaughlin, Joanna Braniff
- Narrated by: Noel McLaughlin
- Length: 24 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Highly original and fascinating cultural and political history told through Belfast’s popular music scene in the 1960s in the context of Northern Ireland’s sociopolitical milieu. With particular emphasis on Van Morrison, Them, and Ottilie Patterson; also features the Peter Whitehead film of The Rolling Stones.
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How Belfast Got the Blues
- A Cultural History of Popular Music in the 1960s
- Narrated by: Noel McLaughlin
- Length: 24 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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No Limit (German edition)
- Die Neunziger das Jahrzehnt der Freiheit
- By: Jens Balzer
- Narrated by: Sebastian Dunkelberg
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Es gibt keine Grenzen mehr: Das glaubt man jedenfalls am Beginn der Neunzigerjahre. Die Berliner Mauer fällt, die Welt rückt zusammen, und sie vernetzt sich. Die ersten Knoten des World Wide Web werden geknüpft, die ersten Suchmaschinen programmiert. In Berlin wird Techno zum Soundtrack der Wiedervereinigung, Neonfarben beherrschen das Bild, Piercings und Tätowierungen erobern den Mainstream, das Arschgeweih gerät zum stilistischen Symbol der Dekade. Aber unter der heiteren Oberfläche brechen alte Konflikte auf, Gespenster aus der Vergangenheit kehren zurück.
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No Limit (German edition)
- Die Neunziger das Jahrzehnt der Freiheit
- Narrated by: Sebastian Dunkelberg
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 20-06-23
- Language: German
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More Fun in the New World
- The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk
- By: John Doe, Tom Desavia
- Narrated by: John Doe, Tom Desavia, Various
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Sequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene Picking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.'s punk...
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More Fun in the New World
- The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk
- Narrated by: John Doe, Tom Desavia, Various
- Series: Under the Big Black Sun, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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Ticket Masters
- The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
- By: Josh Baron, Dean Budnick
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Music journalists Dean Budnick and Josh Baron chronicle the behind-the-scenes history of the modern concert industry. Filled with entertaining rock-and-roll anecdotes about The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Pearl Jam, and more - and charting the emergence of players like Ticketmaster, StubHub, Live Nation, and Outbox - Ticket Masters will transfix every concertgoer who wonders just where the price of admission really goes. This edition has an updated epilogue that covers recent industry developments.
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Ticket Masters
- The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 25-01-13
- Language: English
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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
- 33 1/3, Book 52
- By: Carl Wilson
- Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Non-fans regard Céline Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Céline Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred — with most critics and committed music fans taking pleasure (or at least geeky solace) in their lofty contempt.
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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
- 33 1/3, Book 52
- Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Pearl Jam's Vs.
- 33 1/3
- By: Clint Brownlee
- Narrated by: TJ Clark
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Vs. is the sound of a band on fire. The same confluence of talent, passion, timing, and fate that made “grunge” the world’s soundtrack also lit a short fuse beneath Pearl Jam. The band combusted between late 1992 and mid-1994, the span during which they planned, recorded, and supported their sophomore record. The spotlight, the pressure, the pace—it all nearly turned the thriving act to ash.
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Pearl Jam's Vs.
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: TJ Clark
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Here Beside the Rising Tide
- Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening
- By: Jim Newton
- Narrated by: Jim Newton
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A MULANEY READS PICK A kaleidoscopic history of the Grateful Dead that explores the American counterculture through the life of iconoclastic frontman Jerry Garcia, and his merry band “By writing this book, Jim Newton informs the rest of the world what Deadheads have...
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Here Beside the Rising Tide
- Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening
- Narrated by: Jim Newton
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-08-25
- Language: English
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1967 – The World of Brian Epstein and The Beatles
- The address book that defined an era
- By: Gary Kemp, Simon Halfon
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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When I first saw Brian Epstein’s black Twinlock binder, I was struck by how small and unassuming it was – just 160 by 100 millimetres, the kind of thing you could slip into a coat pocket. But inside, it held a universe. The book felt alive, buzzing, ready and waiting to be explored. So I dug...
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1967 – The World of Brian Epstein and The Beatles
- The address book that defined an era
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 13-10-26
- Language: English
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Nirvana's In Utero
- 33 1/3, Book 34
- By: Gillian G Gaar
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Though Nevermind was Nirvana's most commercially successful album, and the record that broke them—and the grunge phenomenon—internationally, In Utero has increasingly become regarded as the band's best album, both by the critics and the band members themselves. Instead of sticking to the "grunge pop" formula that made Nevermind so palatable to the mainstream, Nirvana chose instead to challenge their audience, producing an album that the band's creative force, Kurt Cobain, said truly matched his vision of what he had always wanted his band to sound like.
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Nirvana's In Utero
- 33 1/3, Book 34
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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