Music-Discography & Buyer's Guides

Is It Still Good to Ya? sums up the career of longtime Village Voice stalwart Robert Christgau, who for half a century has been America's most widely respected rock critic, honoring a music he argues is only more enduring because it's sometimes simple or...

"...a terrific read for lovers of great music and vinyl" --Ruth O'Connor, Irish Examiner. "Peppered with more than 200 colour and black and white images, this book shows off how photogenic the world of vinyl is for photographers." --Amateur Photography. "From a recording medium...

'It's amazing that this style came to be. Can you imagine being a struggling musician back then? It must take an incredible amount of restraint to play that gently.' --Actor/comedian Fred Armisen, from his foreword to this book Just what is 'yacht rock, '...

THE GREAT JAZZ GUITARISTS: THE ULTIMATE GUIDEAuthor: Scott YanowISBN-10: 1617130230ISBN-13: 9781617130236Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2013Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 06/15/2013 pg. 115Choice 09/01/2013

From Carolina Soul Records, one of the world's largest online record sellers, comes the definitive guide to every aspect of record collecting in the digital era. Any music fan knows that there's nothing like the tactile pleasure of a record. Even with access to...

Wilcopedia is a comprehensive guide to the music of the preeminent US rock band of the twenty-first century. It offers a thorough appraisal of the entire Wilco canon, with detailed insights into every album and song the band have released, as well as side...

The perfect gift for music fans and anyone who loves artists like Elvis Presley, Randy Newman, Sly Stone, Robert Johnson, and Harmonica Frank. In 1975, Greil Marcus's Mystery Train changed the way readers thought about rock 'n' roll and continues to be sought out...

This book is a collector's guide for all King Crimson fans around the world. Included you will find track listings on more than 800 vinyl albums, vinyl 7" and 12" singles, CD albums, CD singles, some promos, 8-Track tapes, Cassette Tapes and even a...

December 3-4, 1969. Keith and Mick stood at the same microphone at Muscle Shoals, lights dimmed, splitting a fifth of bourbon, and simultaneously sang the melodies and harmonies on the three songs that they had recorded over three days: Brown Sugar, You Got to...

Recalling The Call is about the most underrated rock 'n roll band of the 80's. This book explores their history, discography, classic interviews and more. New interviews with band members of The Call and other musicians they toured with such as Jim Kerr of...

"I'm no stranger to failure, and I'm aware it can arrive at any minute--as it often has. You have to keep things close to your chest and be aware of what's really important: the work, not everything around it. If you have faith in...

In the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant-garde music. Artists on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Incredible String Band, Vashti Bunyan, Pearls Before Swine...

There have been many books written about Johnny Cash, but The Man in Song is the first to examine Cash's incredible life through the lens of the songs he wrote and recorded. Music journalist and historian John Alexander has drawn on decades of studying...

The Dream Bowl was a ballroom in Northern California that, when I was a kid, fascinated me each time I saw it in the 1950s on trips from Napa to Vallejo. Looking into its history, I was astonished at the parade of major musical...

Special Discount Get your copy right now This collection of more than 40+ original patterns was inspired by Mandala, a method of creating repetitive patterns that promotes relaxation as well as creative expression. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy...

Graced by more than 200 illustrations, many of them seldom seen and some never before published, this sparkling volume offers vivid portraits of the men and women who created country music, the artists whose lives and songs formed the rich tradition from which so...

There are way more than 100 Great Rock Albums, and placing them in some kind of order is incredibly difficult. Music is not a competition and there are no hard and fast criteria by which to judge the greatness of an album. All you...

Follow their incredible journey from students when the band formed in Cambridge in 1965 and consisted of Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright with Dave Gilmour joining in 1967. Syd Barrett left in 1968 but remains synonymous with the group. Pink Floyd...

THE BEATLES DISCOGRAPHY - THE RELEASES presents the Beatles recorded legacy like never before. It's all the Beatles US and UK releases side by side, with important releases from Germany, France and more. Plus their solo releases in the same chronological listing, complete with...

This complete discography of Paul McCartney's solo and other post-Beatles work examines his entire catalog. It covers his studio and live albums and compilations, including the trance, electronic, classical and cover albums and selected bootleg recordings; all of the singles; videos and DVDs; and...

THE BEATLES DISCOGRAPHY Presents The Beatles Recorded Legacy Like Never Before The Beatles Discography has their US and UK releases side by side with important releases from Germany, France and more plus their solo releases in the same chronological listing, complete with release dates,...

Free email Update available: If you have bought this book on Amazon or eBay or elsewhere, you know it contains information about all Mercury Living Presence recordings. But you can also get a major email Update covering recent complete MLP box sets of Rafael...

The first major work dedicated entirely to the discography of film scores from the maestro Ennio Morricone. Unique in its genre, Ennio Morricone: Master of the Soundtrack originates from the idea of the collector, author, and cinema expert Maurizio Baroni. Baroni draws on his...

Combining the personal memories and critical analysis of a self-confessed pop addict with a wealth of contemporary documentary evidence, Gathered From Coincidence reconstructs a truly momentous era to tell the story of the music of the Sixties year by year. By tracing in parallel...

Beginning in 1963, a family from Utah started turning out records and within a decade became one of the top selling musical acts in history.From old-time standards to pop through country and onto Broadway, this family has tackled it all. Follow along on their...

"This band has no past" was the first line of the farcical biography printed on the inner sleeve of Cheap Trick's first album, but the band, of course, did have a past--a past that straddles two very different decades: from the tumult of the...

Recalling The Call is about the most underrated rock 'n roll band of the 80's. This book explores their history, discography, classic interviews and more. New interviews with band members of The Call and other musicians they toured with such as Jim Kerr of...

Thrash Metal. At first mocked by the Rock traditionalists Thrash would swamp the hard n' heavy world propelling one of it's own - Metallica, to the very pinnacle of Rock's elite. In the early 80s Thrash breathed new life into the Rock scene providing...

The Songs He Was Singing Vol. 3 covers the years 1990 to 1999. It details McCartney's creative highs and lows in an authoritative, complete, and engagingly critical fashion. Information for collectors includes release dates, catalogue numbers, composer credits, recording personnel, recording studio, and producer...

Quintessentially British, Genesis spearheaded progressive rock in the 1970s, evolving into a chart-topping success through the end of the millennium. Influencing rock groups such as Radiohead, Phish, Rush, Marillion and Elbow, the experimental format of Genesis' songs inspired new avenues for music to explore....

Helen Maxine Reddy was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on October 25, 1941 to a show-business family. Helen started her career as an entertainer at age four while traveling with her parents. She sang on the radio and television and eventually won a talent...

In The Heart of Rock & Soul, veteran rock critic Dave Marsh offers a polemical guide to the 1,001 greatest rock and soul singles ever made, encompassing rock, metal, R&B, disco, folk, funk, punk, reggae, rap, soul, country, and any other music that has...

Calling Planet Earth: Close Encounters with Sun Ra pulls us into the quirky world of the jazz musician known first as Herman Blount, then as Sun Ra (1914-1993), the Arkestra leader who claimed for most of his life to have come from Saturn. The...

In Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry, Clinton Heylin examines the entire modern history of this underground culture: from what defines a bootleg and its complex and protean legal status, to a full history of bootlegs' production and distribution, to what's...

"Here we come. Walking down the street. We get the funniest looks from everyone we meet. Hey, hey, we're The Monkees "The idea of creating a tv series about a wacky rock group similar to The Beatles had been unsuccessfully kicked around Universal Pictures...

As recommended by USA Today and excerpted on Rolling Stone.com!More than forty years after breaking up, The Beatles remain the biggest-selling and most influential group in the history of popular music. Fans endlessly replay their songs, craving more, while thousands of cover versions of...

Working with the BEST Frank Sinatra, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Andre Previn, Lalo Schifrin, Lee Holdridge, Terry Gibbs, Phil Spector, Luciano Pavarotti, Steve Allen - just a few of the biggest names in the music world that Frankie has worked with. Sixty...

The only complete guide to country music, performers and first-rate recordings, this easy-to-use book leads country lovers to the cream of the crop in all styles, from the 1920s hillbilly music to today's crossover craze with rock and pop. Covers over 1 000 artists...

Your nights of poring over massive karaoke binders are over! With more than two thousand songs handpicked and organized by music industry insider and DJ Sarah Lewitinn (a.k.a. Ultragrrrl), Pocket Karaoke is the definitive, portable guide to making your next karaoke performance unforgettable --...

A new revised and fully updated edition, LEGACY IN WAX - LISTENING TO JOY DIVISION AND NEW ORDER, 1976-2017 is a detailed year by year, album by album guide to some of the most influential music of the past forty years. Complete to autumn...

The Great Punk Rock Trivia Book offers 100 trivia questions from the golden age of punk rock (1976-1980.) It's sure to challenge even the most die-hard punk fanAuthor: David FurgessISBN-10: 1499686226ISBN-13: 9781499686227Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2014Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w...

John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the National Federation of Music...

New York, from the swooping sounds of Doo Wop, and the grittier sounds of R & B, the Big Apple had it all. And as the 1960's dawned a certain style was developing in New York. Some of the best songwriters and arrangers in...

Led by indefatigable singer and songwriter Robert Pollard, GBV are one of the most important rock groups of the past thirty years. After toiling for a decade in obscurity, they broke onto the scene in the early '90s by delivering generation- and genre-defining records...

Standing at the crossroads--the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil's infamous meeting--Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal crunch point. Aged sixty, he had just mourned the death of his father, only to be handed a diagnosis of mouth and throat...

Discography of Neglected Instrumentalists Adrian Aeschbacher;Eduard Erdmann;Conrad Hansen;Ludwig Hoelscher;Georg Kulenkampff;Enrico Mainardi;Carl Seemann;Max Strub;Gerhard Taschner and Friedrich W hrer. John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and...

Beginning in 1963, a family from Utah started turning out records and within a decade became one of the top selling musical acts in history.From old-time standards to pop through country and onto Broadway, this family has tackled it all. Follow along on their...

Starting in 1959 a young girl from Locust Ridge, TN started releasing recordings on small labels and in little more than a decade became one of the top selling musical acts in country music history. Follow her rags to riches story through singles, albums,...

A dazzling appraisal of the definitive classical music performances available today For classical music lovers, there is nothing more beguiling and exciting than the range of technique and emotion that can capture or transform the great works in the hands of a conductor and...

Who Wrote the Beatle Songs: A History of Lennon-McCartney is a book in the tradition of Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Recording Sessions, Walter Everett's The Beatles as Musicians, Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head, and Tim Riley's Tell Me Why --it surveys all of...