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  • Folk City

    New York and the American Folk Music Revival

    From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Caf? to WNYC Radio and Folkways Records, New York City's cultural, artistic, and commercial assets helped to shape a distinctively urban breeding ground for the folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s. Folk City explores New York's central role in fueling the nationwide craze for folk music in postwar America. It involves the efforts of record company ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Flatlanders

    Now It's Now Again

    by John T. Davis ...
    Series series American Music Series
    “Conservative West Texas spawns radical creativity and lifelong bonds of friendship in this story of an unlikely band” from the renowned music journalist (Kirkus Reviews).A group of three friends who made music in a house in Lubbock, Texas, recorded an album that wasn’t released and went their separate ways into solo careers. That group became a legend and then—twenty years later—a band. The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Old-Time Festival Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo

    by Dan Levenson ...
    This book is intended to be a tune repertoire book. It includes over 100 Old-Time festival favorites. Some are cliche, others unusual, some easy, some difficult. The book contains 2 lines of tablature (one basic and one advanced) as well as standard notation and suggested chords. The basic version should be playable by those with general clawhammer skills. The advanced version will require more ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Sang-Thong A Dance-Drama from Thailand

    A Dance-Drama From Thailand

    by King Rama II ...
    Translated by Fern S. Ingersoll ...
    Sang Thong: A Dance-Drama from Thailand, a beloved treasure of Thailand's classical theater is now available for the first time in English.Composed by King Rama II and his court poets early in the 19th century, this captivating dance-drama blends ribald humor, sharp observation, and graceful poetry. Its incidents are based on age-old Asian legends and on vigorous folk-traditions of the Thai ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Dulcimer Hymn Book

    This popular text blends the haunting, sweet voice of the mountain dulcimer with treasured gospel and sacred melodies. Contains 37 outstanding arrangements in standard notation and tab with lyrics and suggested guitar chords. Dulcimer chord diagrams are also shown. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Red Dirt

    Roots Music Born in Oklahoma, Raised in Texas, At Home Anywhere

    Red Dirt tells the story of a roots music scene that grabbed a foothold in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and spread across the country. The scene took roots in the late 1970s as an outlet for college-town hippies. The scene gave rise to Garth Brooks, who credits it with helping his early rise to prominence. Later, The Great Divide, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Jason Boland and the Stragglers and Stoney LaRue ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Easiest Harmonica Book

    by William Bay ...
    Series series Easiest
    A step-by-step method for playing harmonica solos. The format is simple and visually attractive. Through graded lessons, the student is taught how to find and play the individual notes on the diatonic harmonica, as well as learning to read simple musical notation. Includes a diatonic note chart. The songs include chords for accompaniment. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method

    by Neil Griffin ...
    One of the very best G tuning five-string bluegrass banjo methods available! The book teaches how to pick out tunes single-string style (one note at a time), how to play chord accompaniment, and how to play solos in the full three-finger, bluegrass style. Topics include note and tab reading, chord background styles, traditional bluegrass techniques, fills and endings, use of the capo, rolls, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Hal Leonard Ukulele Chord Finder (Music Instruction)

    Easy-to-Use Guide to Over 1,000 Ukulele Chords

    (Fretted). Learn to play chords on the ukulele with this comprehensive, yet easy-to-use book. The Ukulele Chord Finder contains more than a thousand chord diagrams for the most important 28 chord types, including three voicings for each chord. Also includes a lesson on chord construction and a fingerboard chart of the ukulele neck! ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Power of Song

    Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution

    Series series New Directions in Scandinavian Studies
    The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic “Singing Revolution.” When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent force, singing Balts maintained faith in nonviolent political action. More than 110 choral, rock, and folk songs are translated and interpreted in poetic, cultural, and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Kiss My Arse: The Story of the Pogues

    by Carol Clerk ...
    The story of The Pogues has been as riotous as their most rabble-rousing songs. From the streets of 80s London the Celtic Punks unleashed their hellraising 20-year career and in the process became legends; mythic troubadours whose popularity endures.This Omnibus Enhanced edition of Kiss My Arse has been revamped with an interactive digital timeline which paints the journey of The Pogues with ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Christmas Solos for Trumpet

    by William Bay ...
    Easy to intermediate solos scored for B-flat trumpet solo with keyboard accompaniment. Includes fifteen favorite carols: Ding, Dong, Merrily on High; I Saw Three Ships; O Come, All ye Faithful and many more. The keyboard accompaniment is contained in the book and also as a separate PDF download online. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Long Strange Trip

    The Inside History of the Grateful Dead

    The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist—a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture.From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever grace American culture. The creative ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sweet Judy Blue Eyes

    My Life in Music

    by Judy Collins ...
    A vivid, highly evocative memoir of one of the reigning icons of folk music, highlighting the decade of the ’60s, when hits like “Both Sides Now” catapulted her to international fame.Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is the deeply personal, honest, and revealing memoir of folk legend and relentlessly creative spirit Judy Collins. In it, she talks about her alcoholism, her lasting love affair with Stephen ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Reckless Daughter

    A Portrait of Joni Mitchell

    by David Yaffe ...
    "She was like a storm." —Leonard CohenReckless Daughter is the story of an artist and an era that have left an indelible mark on American music.Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl with the guitar became a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Positively 4th Street

    The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña

    by David Hajdu ...
    The story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and invented a sound and a style that are one of the most lasting legacies of the 1960sWhen Bob Dylan, age twenty-five, wrecked his motorcycle on the side of a road near Woodstock in 1966 and dropped out of the public eye, he was recognized as a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Bob Dylan All the Songs

    The Story Behind Every Track

    Series series All the Songs
    The most comprehensive account of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize-winning work yet published, with the full story of every recording session, every album, and every single released during his nearly 60-year career.Bob Dylan: All the Songs focuses on Dylan's creative process and his organic, unencumbered style of recording. It is the only book to tell the stories, many unfamiliar even to his most fervent ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Bound for Glory

    by Woody Guthrie ...
    First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all.Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over—not by jet or motorcycle, but by boxcar, thumb, and foot. During the journey of discovery that was his life, he composed and sang words and music that have become a national ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Joni Mitchell

    In Her Own Words

    by Malka Marom ...
    When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she’d first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Malka completed their most recent recorded interview, in 2012, that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Rememberings

    From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, fearless activism, and of the enduring power of song.Blessed with a singular voice and a fiery temperament, Sinéad O’Connor rose to massive fame in the late 1980s and 1990s with a string of gold records. By the time she was twenty, she was world famous—living a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Learn Guitar the Easy Way with The Easiest Guitar Method. 7 Steps Beginners Must Take to Learn Guitar Successfully.

    by Michael Young ...
    Learn These 7 Highly Effective Steps to Get Playing Beginner Guitar Quickly and Easily.Have you tried guitar before but quit...for whatever reason?Do you struggle with chords?Do you need some inspiration and motivation to really make some progress with guitar?Or do you simply want to start from scratch?If any of these sounds like you, this book will show you the 7 steps to making real progress on ... Read more

    Free

  • Clawhammer Ukulele: Tabs and Techniques

    by Aaron Keim ...
    Clawhammer ukulele instructional book by Aaron Keim. 18 songs in tablature format with several pages of instruction, tips and techniques (including traditional songs and original songs by Aaron). Included within some songs are links to youtube videos for demonstration purposes! (Very helpful for those of you who need to see it and hear it in order to practice). The book has some of the pieces ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Freewheelin' Time

    A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties

    by Suze Rotolo ...
    “The girl with Bob Dylan on the cover of Freewheelin’ broke a forty-five-year silence with this affectionate and dignified recalling of a relationship doomed by Dylan’s growing fame.” –UNCUT magazineSuze Rotolo chronicles her coming of age in Greenwich Village during the 1960s and the early days of the folk music explosion, when Bob Dylan was finding his voice and she was his muse.A shy girl from ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Foxfire 45th Anniversary Book

    Series series Foxfire Series
    For almost half a century, Foxfire has brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative self-sufficiency and preserving the stories, crafts, and customs of Appalachia. Inspiring and practical, this classic series has become an American institution.The Foxfire 45th Anniversary Book continues the beloved tradition of celebrating a simpler life, this time ... Read more

    $10.99 USD