Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
By: Annye C. Anderson
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his fam…
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1. The History Of The Blues
By: Francis Davis
3.94
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Francis Davis's The History of the Blues is a groundbreaking rethinking of the blues that fearlessl… read more
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2. Beatles vs. Stones
By: John McMillian
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A lively examination of the most legendary (and least understood) rivalry in the annals of rock ’n’… read more
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3. The Land Where the Blues Began
By: Alan Lomax
4.31
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
A self-described “song-hunter,” the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 193… read more
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- americana
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4. Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers
By: Benjamin Whitmer , Charlie Louvin
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Get ready for one of America's great untold stories: the true saga of the Louvin Brothers, a mid-ce… read more
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5. Searching for Robert Johnson
By: Peter Guralnick
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Robert Johnson, while probably the most influential of all blues guitarists, is also one of the mos… read more
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6. Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
By: Elijah Wald
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what ma… read more
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7. Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
By: Robert Palmer
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Music category type book. Paperback. Robert Palmer, Author. Lightly age toned pages. A Penquin Book… read more
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8. Stagolee Shot Billy
By: Cecil Brown
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Although his story has been told countless times--by performers from Ma Rainey, Cab Calloway, and t… read more
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9. A Christmas Memory
By: Truman Capote
3.27
Format: None pages, Audio CD
First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote's ru… read more
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10. Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life
By: Steven Hyden
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
One of Amazon's Best Books of 2016 So Far Music critic Steven Hyden explores nineteen music rivalri… read more
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11. The Philosophy of Modern Song
By: Bob Dylan
3.80
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more
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"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
12. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
13. A Book of Days
By: Patti Smith
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more
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14. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir
By: Lucinda Williams
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more
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15. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
By: Sly Stone
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more
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16. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
17. The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are
By: Tariq Trotter
4.20
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
“Tariq Trotter . . . could be hip-hop’s Dostoyevsky. Like the Russian novelist, Mr. Trotter has ref… read more
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18. Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
By: Robert Mack McCormick
3.97
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript … read more
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19. Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson
By: Bruce Conforth
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Robert Johnson is the subject of the most famous myth about the history of the blues: he allegedly … read more
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20. Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
By: Annye C. Anderson
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his fam… read more
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21. Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music
By: Henry Threadgill
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful medit… read more
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