20 Top biography books like Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond by Sandra B. Tooze

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Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond

By: Sandra B. Tooze

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The life of the legendary drummer and singer is explored through extensive research and personal in…

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1. Not Dead Yet: The Memoir

By: Phil Collins

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Phil Collins pulls no punches--about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that's inspir… read more

Similar categories in Phil Collins's Not Dead Yet: The Memoir book and Sandra B. Tooze's Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond

  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. Jailbird

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jailbirdtakes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in… read more

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3. Resurrection Men (Inspector Rebus, #13)

By: Ian Rankin

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of refor… read more

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4. Waylon: An Autobiography

By: Waylon Jennings , Lenny Kaye

4.15

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Waylon Jennings relates the story of his life as a country music star. His beginnings were poor but… read more

Similar categories in Waylon Jennings's Waylon: An Autobiography book and Sandra B. Tooze's Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond

  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. In One Person

By: John Irving

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" (Vanit… read more

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6. Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan

By: Howard Sounes

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Based on three years of research, new documentary evidence, and interviews with 250 of Dylan's inti… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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7. Testimony: A Memoir

By: Robbie Robertson

3.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of the most spellbinding, entertaining, major books of the fall: the long-awaited memoir from t… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

8. This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band

By: Stephen Davis , Levon Helm

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Band, who backed Bob Dylan when he went electric in 1965 and then turned out a half-dozen album… read more

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9. My Cross to Bear

By: Gregg Allman , Alan Light

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For the first time, rock music icon Gregg Allman, one of the founding members of The Allman Brother… read more

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10. Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

By: Neil Young

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist Neil Young offers a kaleidoscopic v… read more

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11. The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People

By: Dan Buettner

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking book, Dan Buettner reveals how to transform your health using smart eating a… read more

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12. Sound Man

By: Glyn Johns

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of a remarkable rock-and-roll career from Glyn Johns, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame produce… read more

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13. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

By: James Kaplan

4.35

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more

Similar categories in James Kaplan's 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool book and Sandra B. Tooze's Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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14. 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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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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15. Set the Night on Fire

By: Robby Krieger

4.41

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

In his tell-all, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone 's "100 Greatest Gu… read more

Similar categories in Robby Krieger's Set the Night on Fire book and Sandra B. Tooze's Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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16. 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

Similar categories in Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir book and Sandra B. Tooze's Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond

  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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17. Be My Baby

By: Ronnie Spector

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, Be My Baby is the… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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18. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

By: Nick Hornby

3.66

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."

-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

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19. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

By: Michael Schulman

4.09

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more

Similar categories in Michael Schulman's Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears book and Sandra B. Tooze's Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond

  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. Like a Rolling Stone

By: Jann S. Wenner

3.84

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

In this New York Times bestseller, Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offe… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back by Jeff Tweedy

21. How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

There are few creative acts more mysterious and magical than writing a song. But what if the goal w… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"To all of the songs like windows, open just enough for us to make our escape, and to all of the songs like windows, closed and clear enough in a dim light to see our own reflection and be reminded of…"

-Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

"When I'm on stage, my experience often goes something like this: Blankness . . . bliss . . . blankness . . . twinkle of awareness that rocking has been achieved . . . bliss . . . Voice of Observing E…"

-Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

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22. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

By: Daniel de Visé

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

23. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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24. Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

By: Steven Hyden

3.93

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The author of the critically acclaimed Your Favorite Band is Killing Me offers an eye-opening explo… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Just try to find an uncompelling photo of Fleetwood Mac taken at any point between 1975 and 1987. I've spent hours scouring Google Images in search of a single Fleetwood Mac band photo to which I am …"

-Steven Hyden, Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

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25. Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s

By: Alan Paul

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author Alan Paul's in-depth narra… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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26. Charlie's Good Tonight

By: Paul Sexton

4.12

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The fully authorized and official biography of legendary Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, one … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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27. Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon

By: Joel Selvin

4.27

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

The blazing rock opera of the greatest drummer of all-time, Jim Gordon, from the legendary Wrecking… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin

28. The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966

By: Clinton Heylin

3.79

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

From the world's leading authority on Bob Dylan comes the definitive biography that promises to tra… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond by Sandra B. Tooze

29. Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond

By: Sandra B. Tooze

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The life of the legendary drummer and singer is explored through extensive research and personal in… read more

Similar categories in Sandra B. Tooze's Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond book and Sandra B. Tooze's Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Levon's Man: Woodstock, the Death of Richard Manuel, and My Decade Managing The Band by Joe Forno Jr.

30. Levon's Man: Woodstock, the Death of Richard Manuel, and My Decade Managing The Band

By: Joe Forno Jr.

4.13

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

Here is an inside look behind the scenes of The Band and how they recovered from the suicide of voc… read more

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  • music
Cover of Anatomy of 55 More Songs by Marc Myers

31. Anatomy of 55 More Songs

By: Marc Myers

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Following his 2016 smash hit Anatomy of a Song, acclaimed music journalist Marc Myers collects fift… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history

16 must-read history books like Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond by Sandra B. Tooze

Transform Your Habits

Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan

Howard Sounes

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Testimony: A Memoir

Robbie Robertson

3.65

Transform Your Habits

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan

3.80

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18 Top music books like World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

Transform Your Habits

Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It

Bob Boilen

3.78

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

4.35

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