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Author
Publisher
Young Voyageur Press, an imprint of the Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Grammy Award-winning children's artist presents a collection of 64 songs from a cross-section of folk styles along with backgound narratives for each song and essays on the nature of music-making in the home and community.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Prism is an imprint of Chronicle Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Always a Song is a collection of stories from singer and songwriter Ellen Harper folk matriarch and mother to the Grammy-winning musician Ben Harper. Harper shares vivid memories of growing up in Los Angeles through the 1960s among famous and small-town musicians, raising Ben, and the historic Folk Music Center. This beautifully written memoir includes stories of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, The New Lost City Ramblers, Doc Watson,...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Chicago is recognized around the world for its place in the history of jazz, gospel, and the blues. Far less known is the surprisingly important role Chicago played in country music and the folk revival. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and deep archival research, Mark Guarino tells a forgotten story of music in Chicago and reveals how the city's institutions and personalities influenced sounds we today associate with regions further south. It is...
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A look at Lynn's handwritten lyrics and memorabilia, personal photographs, and anecdotes that give deeper insights into her childhood in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, her marriage and relationship with Doolittle Lynn, her experience as a mother; and her rise to the top of the charts.
Author
Series
Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a musician's new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish nationalists' ire, and it's up to Bruno to track down an extremist who seems ready to take deadly measures"--
Summer in St Denis, and Bruno is busy organizing the annual village concert. He's hired a local Périgord folk group, Les Troubadours, to perform their latest hit 'A Song for Catalonia'. When the song unexpectedly goes viral, the Spanish government...
Author
Publisher
Oh Boy Records
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
John Prine curates a selection of his best loved songs. Over 100 photographs from John Prine's personal collection. Copies of hand-written lyrics showing how the songs evolved. Commentary from John about the songs and photographs. Lyrics and guitar chords for over 60 classic John Prine songs.
Author
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The story of how Russ Giguere and his fellow band members in the legendary and influential pop group The Association came together to create unparalleled music, unique to the time and place, and never again to be repeated. Yes, there were drugs, and there were women, such as the lovely Linda Ronstadt and Helen Mirren, but it was the sixties, after all. In reading 'Along Comes The Association,' you are transported back in time to post-1963 America....
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This lyrical picture book biography of songwriter and activist Jean Ritchie traces the singer's life from the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky to New York City and beyond, as her protest songs inspired a nation."--Book jacket flap.
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