Category - Music
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Banjo: An Illustrated History
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /(Book). The banjo is emblematic of American country music, and it is at the core of other important musical movements, including jazz and ragtime...
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Joan Baez: The Last Leaf
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Since she stepped onstage unannounced at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez has occupied a singular place in popular music. Within three y...
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Jason Molina: Riding with the Ghost
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Erin Osmon presents a detailed, human account of the Rust Belt-born musician Jason Molina-a visionary, prolific, and at times cantankerous singer...
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I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like: Mostly True Tall Tales
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /For years, Todd Snider has been one of the most beloved country-folk singers in the United States, compared to Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, John Prine, ...
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American Folk Songs for Christmas
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), distinguished musician, noted music educator and authority on folk music has assembled a collection of songs fr...
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Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect wi...
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A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America
HardcoverOriginal price $63.00 - Original price $63.00Original price $63.00$81.99$81.99 - $81.99Current price $81.99| /Not so long ago, songs by the Andrews Sisters and Lawrence Welk blasted from phonographs, lilted over the radio, and dazzled television viewers a...
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Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising his...
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Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Since the release of their breakout debut album in 2008, Fleet Foxes and their front man, singer-songwriter Robin Pecknold, have enjoyed internatio...
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Am I Pretty When I Fly?: An Album of Upside Down Drawings
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Like a long, funny letter from an old friend, an album of drawings by the legendary singer and activist for social justice, Joan Baez. Since retiri...
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Oh, Didn't They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /What is American roots music? Any definition must account for a kaleidoscope of genres from bluegrass to blues, western swing to jazz, soul and gos...
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Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic-- our human need to document the horrors of the world ...
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Arhoolie Records Down Home Music: The Stories and Photographs of Chris Strachwitz
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the le...
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The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan's Live Performances: Play a Song for Me
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /This collection focuses on Bob Dylan's setlists from the 1960s to the 2020s. These multidisciplinary essays examine how the concert setlist can be ...
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Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane chronicles the origins and evolution of a folk tune beloved by millions worldwide. Dan Gutstein ...
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Rising Son: The Life and Music of Arlo Guthrie Volume 10
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /One of America’s most beloved folk singers, Arlo Guthrie was at the pinnacle of his fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his best-selling ...
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Nick Drake: The Life
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Experience the definitive biography of one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the twentieth century with this eye-opening book featuring a for...
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Träd, Gräs Och Stenar: A Collective History
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The definitive book on legendary Swedist psych band, Träd, Gräs och Stenar. The story of Träd, Gräs och Stenar is also a defining story of alte...
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Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending, Revised and Expanded Edition: An Incredible String Band Compendium
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and ephemera concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to emerge from the 1960s hipp...
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Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"A handbook for compassion... a Must-Read Music Book.”—Rolling Stone Country"Generous and big-hearted, Gauthier has stories to tell and worthwhil...
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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of...
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The Nobel Lecture
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2016 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Lite...
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