Music audiobooks

Chronicles - Abridged

By: Bob Dylan

Narrated by: Sean Penn

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.

“I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.”

So writes Bob Dylan in... Read more

The Last Holiday Concert

By: Andrew Clements

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

For Hart Evans, being the most popular fifth grader has its advantages: kids look up to him and teachers let him get away with everything. But during one choir practice, Hart zones out too far, accidentally flinging a rubber band at his teacher. Mr. Meinert realizes that if Hart is ever going to discover his musical potential, his punishment... Read more

Finding a Way to Live in Love

By: Jai Uttal

Narrated by: Neil Harvey

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneer in the world music community, Jai Uttal's musical roots embrace a rich variety of cultures.  His compositions are a merging of his passion for eastern ecstatic chanting with plugged-in popular western song craft, jazz, and rock and roll. Read more

Car Talk: Born Not to Run

By: Ray Magliozzi & Tom Magliozzi

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Born Not to Run is a collection of car tunes as irreverent as they are melodic. With titles like, "If She Wasn't On Blocks," Who Taught These Idiots To Drive," and "Built to Crash," we guarantee that you'll be simultaneously tapping your toes, laughing out loud and shaking your head. For these reasons, we ask that you not listen to Born Not to... Read more

Marc Brown's Arthur: Books 3 and 4

By: Marc Brown

Narrated by: Mark Linn-Baker

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

#3 - Arthur Makes the Team– It feels as if it'll be a long season for Arthur as he struggles to sharpen his baseball skills and ends up learning an important lesson about teamwork.

#4 - Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest– There's a year's worth of Crunch Cereal on the line...and it'll be awarded to the composer of the best jingle. Arthur is so... Read more

Gilbert & Sullivan Set Me Free

By: Kathleen Karr

Narrated by: Carmen Viviano Crafts

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on a true incident, this moving novel tells the story of a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's “Pirates of Penzance”—as performed by the inmates of a women's prison in 1914! Infused with music, beautifully researched and filled with fascinating characters, this is great teen listening. Read more

Jim Morrison

By: Stephen Davis

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 17 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

As the lead singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison’s searing poetic vision and voracious appetite for sexual, spiritual, and psychedelic experience inflamed the spirit and psyche of a generation. Since his mysterious death in 1971, millions more fans from a new generation have embraced his legacy, as layers of myth have gathered to enshroud the life,... Read more

Whatever You Say I Am - Abridged

By: Anthony Bozza

Narrated by: Josh Hamilton

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

does eminem matter?

On assignment for his first cover story for Rolling Stone, the very first national cover story on Eminem, Anthony Bozza met a young blond kid, a rapper who would soon take the country by storm. But back in 1999, Eminem was just beginning to make waves among suburban white teenagers as his first single, “My Name Is,” went into... Read more

Deutsches Theater

By: Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre

Narrated by: Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Deutsches Theater bietet keinen Blick hinter die Kulissen, sondern einen darauf. Wer spielt was für wen? Wo endet die Bühne? Die Hypothese: Sie endet gar nicht. Als Gäste: Christoph Amend - Manuel Andrack - Sepp Bierbichler - Till Brönner - Fetisch - Karl Ignatz Hennetmair - Hellmuth Karasek - Manfred Krug - Gerd Krüger - Sandra Maischberger -... Read more

Foolish/Unfoolish

By: Ashanti

Narrated by: Ashanti

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this humorous and honest poetry collection, ‘Princess of Hip Hop’ Ashanti shares her unique perspective on life and love. Foolish/Unfoolish is a collection of vibrant and honest "reflections on love" by R&B singer Ashanti. Ever since she was thirteen years old, Ashanti has kept journals of her poetry, thoughts, and ideas about life and... Read more

Blind Faith - Abridged

By: Dennis Love & Stacy Brown

Narrated by: Viola Davis

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: Yes

Hardship, sacrifice, determination and ultimate triumph make up Blind Faith, the frank and compelling biography of Lula Hardaway, mother of superstar musician and singer Stevie Wonder.
A motherless child born in a sharecropper's shack in Alabama, Lula was passed from relative to relative, unwanted and unloved. As a teenager she was sent to... Read more

The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach - Abridged

By: Peter Schickele

Narrated by: Peter Schickele

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Professor Peter Schickele's account of the life of little-known composer P.D.Q. Bach. Read more

Elvis Presley

By: Bobbie Ann Mason

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

PEN/Hemingway Award-winner Bobbie Ann Mason turns her acumen on one of twentieth-century America's most mysterious icons, The King himself. This new biography eschews sensational speculation to paint a thoughtfully researched but wholly felt portrait of the man-child who metamorphosed into a hero, one of the most popular and least supported... Read more

The Yoga of Sound: Returning to the Sacred Rhythms of Life

By: Russill Paul

Narrated by: Neil Harvey

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Russill Paul directs us to the yoga of sound, which draws from the voices of stones, rocks, trees, birds, and the subtle and constant communication which occurs between all living things. Read more

Car Talk: Car Tunes

By: Ray Magliozzi & Tom Magliozzi

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

After "Will you guys please go away?," Car Talk: Car Tunes are the most frequent listener requests fielded by Click and Clack, the famous Tappet brothers. Listeners searching for disrespectful, irreverent car tunes that express their true feelings about their cars need look no further.

Facing another incomprehensible, costly repair? Wondering... Read more

The Mountain of the Women - Abridged

By: Liam Clancy

Narrated by: Liam Clancy

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In an irresistible tale of a life lived fully, if not always wisely, Liam Clancy, of the legendary Irish group the Clancy Brothers, describes his eventful journey from a small town in Ireland in the 1930s into the heart of the New York music scene in the 1950s and ’60s.
Following in the grand tradition of such Irish memoirs as Angela’s Ashes and ... Read more

The Children's Shakespeare - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare, Linda Hamilton, Tate Donov...

Narrated by: Jim Belushi

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seven of Shakespeare's most celebrated plays— As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pericles, Romeo & Juliet, and The Winter's Tale— have been specifically adapted by Edith Nesbit to introduce young listeners to the Bard' s works. Made accessible to young readers without sacrificing... Read more

Marlon Brando

By: Patricia Bosworth

Narrated by: Edward Holland

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Following his development from moody Oklahoma teenager to the method-trained star to the eccentric recluse of his later years, Patricia Bosworth offers a penetrating look at Marlon Brando’s evolving persona: the volcanic Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, the sensitive rebel in The Wild Ones, the iconic Don Corleone in The Godfather.... Read more

The Song of Leonard Cohen

By: Harry Rasky

Narrated by: Al Bernstein

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

“‘Harry, this is Leonard. I just wanted you to know I watched your film on me and it struck me I never thanked you enough at the time for the magnificent gift you gave with that film. Call me.’

Then he left his personal number.”
– Harry Rasky, April 2000.

No other book about Leonard Cohen gets so close to the man, his city, his poems and songs, his... Read more

Mole Music (Reading Rainbow Books)

By: David McPhail

Narrated by: Jim Weiss

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When Mole hears the beautiful music a violin makes, he decides to get one for himself. He practices every day and learns to make beautiful music, too. Alone in his hole, Mole imagines the effect his music might have on the world. As he plays, his music has an effect even more wonderful than he could imagine. A Live Oak Media audio production. Read more

Jazz - Abridged

By: Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns

Narrated by: LeVar Burton

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A masterpiece that brings to life the fascinating story of the quintessential American music—jazz. Visually stunning, with more than five hundred photographs, this companion volume to the acclaimed ten-part PBS TV series is an exploration of the music that celebrates all Americans at their best.

Here are the stories of the extraordinary men and... Read more

Music, Magic & Mirrors

By: Ysaye Barnwell & Christina Fleming

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A dream came true for 23-year-old Christina Fleming, when she got the opportunity to interview Ysaye Barnwell, a member of the Grammy award-winning African American female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock.  Experience her excitement as she and Barnwell discuss a myriad of topics, from the group’s African roots to the magic behind the... Read more

Mozart

By: Peter Gay

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The greatest mind in Western music is examined by a National Book Award–winning writer on culture and psychology in this concise account of the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The composer’s unshakable hold on the public’s fascination can only be strengthened by the historian and biographer Peter Gay’s bold new perspective.  

His passionate and... Read more

Chanting:  The Sound of Spirit

By: Robert Gass

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The magic of chanting has a calming, awakening and sometimes even consciousness-altering mystery about it.  From singing hymns together in church to learning nursery songs in kindergarten, we’ve all experienced the joy and resonance chanting can bring.  In his early days as a rock musician, Robert Gass tapped into "the tribal music of the... Read more