Music

How to Make Gravy

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Paul Kelly
• Narrated By Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller, and here, using his lyrics as starting points, he reads stories of his life and his songs, including "Before Too Long", "To Her Door", "Leaps And Bounds", "Don't Start Me Talking", "Dumb Things", "From Little Things Big Things Grow" and "How to Make Gravy". Mirroring the structure of his legendary A to Z shows - where he performs around a hundred of his songs alphabetically over four nights - Kelly describes the highs and lows of performing, the art of songwriting, being on the road with the band, tales of his childhood, family, friends and fellow musicians.

Music Theory: from Absolute Beginner to Expert: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Learning Music Theory Effortlessly

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Nicolas Carter
• Narrated By Bryan Howard
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Have you ever been put off by music theory or thought that is too hard to learn? If the answer is yes, then this book is the answer for you. It covers everything that anyone who plays (or wants to play) music, and wishes to become better as a musician, should know. This is the most comprehensive book on music theory that you can find today. Not only that, but this book is written in a way that is really easy to follow, understand and internalize all the concepts explained.

Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Adam Gussow
• Narrated By Adam Gussow

How does a white kid from the New York suburbs, harmonica in hand, end up earning himself a busker's spot on the Harlem sidewalks next to Mr. Satan, a Mississippi-born legend? How did an interracial blues duo fare on the streets of New York during a turbulent, fractious time marked by racially-motivated murders in Howard Beach, Bensonhurst, and Crown Heights?

Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 20 mins)
• By John Doe, Tom Desavia
• Narrated By Exene Cervenka, Henry Rollins, full cast

Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it's never been told before. Authors John Doe and Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of the legendary West Coast scene from 1977 to 1982 by enlisting the voices of people who were there. The book shares chapter-length tales from the authors along with personal essays from famous (and infamous) players in the scene.

Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers: The Rise of Motörhead

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Martin Popoff
• Narrated By A. T. Chandler
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Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers is the first book to celebrate the classic-era Motörhead lineup of Lemmy Kilmister, "Fast" Eddie Clarke, and Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor. Through interviews with all of the principal troublemakers, Martin Popoff celebrates the formation of the band and the records that made them legends.

Bach and the High Baroque

• ORIGINAL (25 hrs and 7 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Robert Greenberg

Though unappreciated in his own time, Johann Sebastian Bach has ascended to Olympian heights, the verdict of contemporary audiences long since overruled by succeeding generations of music lovers. But what makes his music great? In this series of 32 lectures, a working composer and musicologist brings his exceptional teaching skills to the task of helping you hear the extraordinary sweep of Bach's music. You'll understand the compositional language that enabled him to compose such extravagant, unbridled music while still maintaining precise control of every aspect - beat, melody, melodic repetition, interaction, and harmony.

The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Victor L. Wooten
• Narrated By Victor L. Wooten
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"'Boy, do I have a lot to learn!'" Anyone who's ever picked up a musical instrument of any kind - from the first caveman banging rocks to that little kid at the guitar shop - has thought that. I know I did. I'd been trying for years to break in to the music scene, to show everyone my chops, to make my mark. And I was good. But I wasn't great. I knew that there was something wrong. Then the teacher showed up...."

Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 59 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Bill Messenger

Jazz is a uniquely American art form, one of America's great contributions to not only musical culture, but world culture, with each generation of musicians applying new levels of creativity that take the music in unexpected directions that defy definition, category, and stagnation.

Now you can learn the basics and history of this intoxicating genre in an eight-lecture series that is as free-flowing and original as the art form itself.

Be a Great Guitar Player: Unleash Musical Talent with Hypnosis, Relaxation, Meditation, and Affirmations (The Sleep Learning System)

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Joel Thielke
• Narrated By Joel Thielke

Unleash your musical talent and be the best guitar player you can be with this guided meditation and relaxation program, from certified hypnotherapist, Joel Thielke. It's as easy as turning on the tracks and falling asleep! The Sleep Learning System is specially designed to work with your subconscious mind during your sleep cycle. The guided meditation and soothing background music will deeply relax your body and mind for the perfect night's sleep, while allowing you to access the deepest parts of your mind.

Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Joel Selvin
• Narrated By John Pruden
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In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones' infamous Altamont concert in San Francisco, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s.

How Music Works

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 11 mins)
• By David Byrne
• Narrated By Andrew Garman

Best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the iconic band Talking Heads, David Byrne has received Grammy, Oscar, and Golden Globe awards and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In the insightful How Music Works, Byrne offers his unique perspective on music - including how music is shaped by time, how recording technologies transform the listening experience, the evolution of the industry, and much more.

The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Mayte Garcia
• Narrated By Mayte Garcia
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In The Most Beautiful, a title inspired by the hit song Prince wrote about their legendary love story, Mayte Garcia for the first time shares the deeply personal story of their relationship and offers a singular perspective on the music icon and their world together: from their unconventional meeting backstage at a concert (and the long-distance romance that followed) to their fairy-tale wedding (and their groundbreaking artistic partnership) to the devastating losses that ultimately dissolved their relationship.

Westlife: A Rockview Audiobiography

• ORIGINAL (51 mins)
• By Eva Unbauer, Pete Bruens
• Narrated By Eva Unbauer, Pete Bruens

When the going gets tough Ireland's Westlife gets going. It's hard to believe that Westlife stormed the charts and achieved success in such a short period of time and within a few years of their forming they had seven number 1's, Best New Band, Record of The Year and a biography under their belts

How to Make It in the New Music Business: Practical Tips on Building a Loyal Following and Making a Living as a Musician

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Ari Herstand
• Narrated By Ari Herstand, Derek Sivers

In the last decade, no industry has been through as much upheaval and turmoil as the music industry. If you're looking for quick fame and instant success, you're in the wrong field. It's now a democratic DIY business, and any guide to success in these new waters must be told by someone who's already survived them.

Hamilton: The Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter
• Narrated By Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mariska Hargitay

Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical, Hamilton, is as revolutionary as its subject: the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B and the best traditions of theater, this once-in-a-generation show broadens the sound of Broadway, reveals the storytelling power of rap and claims the origins of the United States for a diverse new generation. Hamilton: The Revolution gives listeners an unprecedented view of both revolutions.

America 51: A Probe into the Realities That Are Hiding Inside "The Greatest Country in the World"

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Corey Taylor
• Narrated By Corey Taylor
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The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor begins America 51 with a reflection on what his itinerant youth and frequent worldwide travels with his multiplatinum bands Slipknot and Stone Sour have taught him about what it means to be an American in an increasingly unstable world. He examines the way America sees itself, specifically with regard to the propaganda surrounding America's origins (like a heavy-metal Howard Zinn) while also celebrating the quirks and behavior that make a true-blue American.

How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition

• ORIGINAL (36 hrs and 32 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Robert Greenberg

Great music is a language unto its own, a means of communication of unmatched beauty and genius. And it has an undeniable power to move us in ways that enrich our lives-provided it is understood.If you have ever longed to appreciate great concert music, to learn its glorious language and share in its sublime pleasures, the way is now open to you, through this series of 48 wonderful lectures designed to make music accessible to everyone who yearns to know it, regardless of prior training or knowledge.

Listen to This

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Alex Ross
• Narrated By Alex Ross
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In Listen to This, Alex Ross, the music critic for The New Yorker, looks both backward and forward in time, capturing essential figures and ideas in classical-music history as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music that emphasizes the power of the individual musical voice in whatever genre.

The History of Jazz, Second Edition

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Ted Gioia
• Narrated By Bob Souer
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Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic - acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history.

The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Stanley Booth
• Narrated By Adrian Mulraney

Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones’ inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1968. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night with them listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway: a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation’s dreams of peace and freedom.

Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Jan Swafford
• Narrated By Tom Perkins

In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable and expert guide to the genre. He traces the history of Western music, introduces listeners to the most important composers and compositions, and explains the underlying structure and logic of their music.

Musician's Map: The Complete Guide to Building Success in Music

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Kane Power
• Narrated By Kane Power

The Musician's Map is a complete guide to building success in music. Whether you're just thinking about learning music, or you're already in the process of building a career; this book will help you. Musician's Map provides practical advice for musicians just starting out and musicians looking to get ahead and further their career. This book is a step-by-step guide that will save you years of time, thousands of dollars, and will make you a better musician.

How to Listen to Jazz

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Ted Gioia
• Narrated By Peter Ganim
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In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to the art of listening to jazz. He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a guide to today's leading jazz musicians. From Louis Armstrong's innovative sounds to the exotic compositions of Duke Ellington, Gioia covers everything from the music's history to the building blocks of improvisation.

The Ultimate Guitar Beginner's Guide: Get to Learn the Art of Playing the Guitar in No Time & Surprise Your Family and Friends

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 1 min)
• By Ryan Dorris
• Narrated By Julie-Ann Amos
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Are you just into music and want to try it out yourself or are you already great at the guitar and on the look for some new ideas? In this book, we got you covered with everything you need to know about playing guitar. Basic or advanced, you will find what you are looking for!

How to Play Acoustic Guitar: The Ultimate Teach Yourself Guitar Book

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 56 mins)
• By Pauric Mather
• Narrated By Nick Cracknell

For thousands of people, this is the ultimate teach yourself guitar book. It helped them to learn faster - easier & more efficiently than any other teaching method. Inside is the most complete, individual & personalised program of lessons you will ever find.

How to Learn Guitar: The Ultimate Teach Yourself Guitar Book

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 56 mins)
• By Pauric Mather
• Narrated By Nick Cracknell

For thousands of people this is the ultimate teach yourself guitar book. It helped them to learn faster, easier, and more efficiently than any other teaching method. In it is the most complete individual and personalized program of lessons you will ever find.

Music Practice: The Musician's Guide to Practicing and Mastering Your Instrument Like a Professional

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 36 mins)
• By David Dumais
• Narrated By Jennifer Capunitan
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Learn all the best practice tips, tricks, and techniques used by the greatest musicians in the world - all for the price of a coffee! If you are serious about playing, practicing, and improving your skills on your instrument, then this audiobook is for you! Whether you are a beginner or professional, classically trained or not, this audiobook contains proven strategies that can be applied by anybody.

Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops, and the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 1 min)
• By David McGowan
• Narrated By Bill Fike
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The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack to those turbulent times. But there was a dark side to that scene as well. Many didn't make it out alive, and many of those deaths remain shrouded in mystery to this day.

London Festival: Events In the Cultural Olympiad - CV/Visual Arts Research

• UNABRIDGED (51 mins)
• By Alexandra James
• Narrated By Dana Brewer Harris
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Reviews events in the London Festival of the Cultural Olympiad. Writer Alexandra James visits a variety of exhibitions, music, and performances, staged through July 2012, witnessing a range of creative voices drawn from the international arena.

Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Ann Powers
• Narrated By Teri Schnaubelt
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In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.

Can't Stand Up for Falling Down: Rock 'n' Roll War Stories

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Allan Jones
• Narrated By Matt Bates

Allan Jones launched Uncut magazine in 1997 and for 15 years wrote a popular monthly column called Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, based on his experiences as a music journalist in the 70s and 80s. By turns hilarious, cautionary, poignant and powerful, the Stop Me...stories collected here include encounters with some of rock's most iconic stars, including David Bowie, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Elvis Costello, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Smiths, R.E.M. and Pearl Jam.

America 51: A Probe into the Realities That Are Hiding Inside "The Greatest Country in the World"

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Corey Taylor
• Narrated By Corey Taylor
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor begins America 51 with a reflection on what his itinerant youth and frequent worldwide travels with his multiplatinum bands Slipknot and Stone Sour have taught him about what it means to be an American in an increasingly unstable world. He examines the way America sees itself, specifically with regard to the propaganda surrounding America's origins (like a heavy-metal Howard Zinn) while also celebrating the quirks and behavior that make a true-blue American.

Unpopular Culture

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Guvna B
• Narrated By Guvna B
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Money is the key to happiness. Work hard, play hard. Look out for number one. Popular culture is full of phrases like these, telling us the best way to live, the right things to buy, the right body shape to have, the right people to hang out with. These messages are everywhere we look, 24 hours a day. But what if there was another way to live? What if we chose to live differently: to stand against injustice, to live life for more than just ourselves, to dare to be unpopular?

The Ultimate Guide to Singing for a Living: All You Need to Know to Get Started with a Career on the Stage

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Andrea McCormack
• Narrated By Louise McCance-Price
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In this book you will be provided with the inspiration needed to take the next step to becoming a fabulous fully fledged performer in the competitive world of entertainment. Now, in its second edition, it's not just for those starting out, but it's the real insiders' guide to everything you need to know to reach the very top of your game.

Essential Trumpet Lessons, Book One: Get Started: Tone, Breathing, Tongue Use and Other Skills to Get You Off to a Great Start

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Jonathan Harnum PhD
• Narrated By Jonathan Harnum

Essential lessons for comeback players, midlevel players, and all beginners. Covers tone production, breathing, tongue use, written music, how to practice, and more essentials to get you started right.

Legacy, a Musical Indictment: Episode 2: The Revolution

• ORIGINAL (26 mins)
• By November Christine
• Narrated By Brant Rotnem, Robert Fleet, Davon Williams, and others

Hip-hop meets history in this four-part musical series about Martin Luther, the Father of the Protestant Reformation. In Episode 2, Martin Luther is at the peak of his popularity with the German people. The Pope and his cronies, however, are hell-bent on taking the wayward priest down. With the help of his nemesis, Johann Von Eck, Martin is lured into a battle of wits at the Leipzig Debate. Though Martin wins the battle, it looks as though he's lost the war when the mouthy monk finds himself on trial before the Pope himself.

A History of Heavy Metal

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Andrew O'Neill
• Narrated By Andrew O'Neill

The history of heavy metal brings us extraordinary stories of larger-than-life characters living to excess, from the household names of Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Iron Maiden and Metallica to the brutal notoriety of the underground Norwegian black metal scene and the New Wave of British heavy metal. It is the story of a worldwide network of rabid fans escaping everyday mundanity through music, of cutthroat corporate arseholes ripping off those fans and the bands they worship to line their pockets.

So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Roger Steffens, Linton Kwesi Johnson
• Narrated By Roger Steffens
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Bob Marley's life is the stuff of legend. Raised in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Marley (1945-1981) wrote songs that inspired millions. So Much Things to Say tells Marley's life story like never before. Roger Steffens traveled with the Wailers and interviewed Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer extensively. Now, drawing on 40 years of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants - many speaking publicly for the first time - Steffens crafts a riveting oral history depicting Marley's life.

The Spree of '83

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Freddy Powers, Catherine Powers, Jake Brown, and others
• Narrated By Andi Arndt, Carrington MacDuffie, Donald Corren, and others
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The Los Angeles Times affectionately referred to Freddy Powers as the "Ol Blue Eyes' of Country Music" and wrote that if you were to "ask country superstars Willie Nelson, George Jones or Merle Haggard (they'll)...tell you that he's one of country music's best-kept secrets". The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame inductee has been to the top of the charts as both a producer for Willie Nelson's Grammy-winning LP Over the Rainbow and a songwriter for many of country music legend Merle Haggard's number one hits.

Break the Business

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Ryan Kairalla
• Narrated By Ryan Kairalla

For generations, record companies have dominated the music industry. Artists were unable to get their material to the masses without label backing, meaning that the path to stardom inevitably involved artists having to sign exploitative record contracts. These "record deals" were profoundly one-sided, and usually imposed brutal, predatory terms on artists. Fortunately, times have changed and artists no longer need labels. It is a new music business, and it is time for a new kind of music business book.