Music audiobooks

Feel Good 101

By: Emma Blackery

Narrated by: Emma Blackery

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

THIS BOOK WON'T CHANGE YOUR LIFE

But it might just help you change it yourself

Only you can take the steps you need to help yourself become the strong, independent, fearless person you dream of being. It took me a long time - and a lot of real lows, excruciating heartaches and countless mistakes - to get there. The sole purpose of this book's... Read more

What I Found in a Thousand Towns

By: Dar Williams

Narrated by: Dar Williams

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes.

Dubbed by the New Yorker as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters," Dar Williams has made her career not in stadiums, but touring America's small towns. She has played their venues, composed in their coffee shops, and... Read more

Liner Notes

By: Loudon Wainwright III

Narrated by: Loudon Wainwright III

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir by the influential Grammy Award-winning singer and actor—son of journalist Loudon Wainwright, former husband of Kate McGarrigle and Suzzy Roche, and father of Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright Roche, and Lexie Kelly Wainwright—a captivating meditation on relationships and creativity from the patriarch of one of... Read more

Maximum Volume

By: Kenneth Womack

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Maximum Volume offers a glimpse into the mind, the music, and the man behind the sound of the Beatles. George Martin's working-class childhood and musical influences profoundly shaped his early career in the BBC's Classical Music department and as head of the EMI Group's Parlophone Records. Out of them flowed the genius behind his seven years... Read more

Sing!

By: Keith Getty & Kristyn Getty

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do you sing at church?It’s a question we almost never ask out loud. Yet, this is a question that is central to the lives of Christians who regularly gather together for worship.Do you sing to God? Or do you “address one another in hymns and spiritual songs,” as the Scripture says? Do you close your eyes? What is your posture in worship? This... Read more

Strings

By: Megan Edwards

Narrated by: Carlyle Coash

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Merino Rose. Ted Spencer has a hard enough time believing the celebrated violin really exists. To find it sitting on his coffee table is nothing short of incredible. The stuff of legend, the exquisite Guarnerius has been missing for centuries.

But even though the renowned instrument is a violin lover's dream come true, it holds only... Read more

Memoiren des Hector Berlioz - Abridged

By: Hector Berlioz

Narrated by: Dirk Glodde

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zu sagen, kein Musiker sei weniger bekannt als Berlioz, mag paradox klingen. Jedermann glaubt ihn zu kennen. Lärmender Ruhm umgibt seine Person und sein Werk. Das musikalische Europa hat seinen hundertsten Geburtstag gefeiert. Deutschland macht Frankreich den Ruhm streitig, sein Genie geformt und gefördert zu haben. Rußland bereitete ihm einen... Read more

Some Fantastic Place

By: Chris Difford

Narrated by: Chris Difford

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

'King George Street in Charlton, South London, was my first home. Six prefabs, three pubs, a school, a church and a yard where the electricity board kept cables. Two long rows of terraced house faced each other at one end of the street; and, at the other, big houses with big doors and even bigger windows. There was a phone box next to one of the... Read more

Soul Survivor

By: Jimmy McDonough

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Shakey: Neil Young's Biography presents the first in-depth biography of the legendary soul singer Al Green.

Al Green has blessed listeners with some of the biggest hits of the past fifty years. "Love and Happiness," "I'm Still in Love with You," "Let's Get Married," and "I'm Tired of Being Alone" are but a sampling of... Read more

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

By: Brian Southall

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A carefully crafted and collectible volume celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of a legendary and groundbreaking Beatles album. Expert Brian Southall's unique edition recounts the story behind the music and the cultural climate of 1967 when Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band debuted.



The "A-side" of this coolly curated title is all about the... Read more

Olive and the Backstage Ghost

By: Michelle Schusterman

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A ghost story with a literary heart for fans of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and The Graveyard Book. Theater kids and ghost-story readers alike will find new meaning in the term stage fright.
 
All great theaters have their ghosts. . . .
 
After Olive Preiss freezes during a theater camp audition, she flees in despair. She finds herself at Maudeville,... Read more

Good Booty

By: Ann Powers

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became... Read more

The Making of Music

By: James Naughtie

Narrated by: James Naughtie

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this major BBC Radio 4 series, James Naughtie uncovers the roots of our music and reveals the soundtrack to our own history.

The history of classical music is inextricably linked with the places it was written, its purpose and its patrons, as well as with politics, war and social change. From the earliest music of the monasteries, to the court... Read more

America 51

By: Corey Taylor

Narrated by: Corey Taylor

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A skewering of the American underbelly by the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Deadly Sins, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven, and You're Making Me Hate You

The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor begins America 51 with a reflection on what his itinerant youth and frequent worldwide travels with his multiplatinum... Read more

101 Amazing Facts about Bob Marley

By: Jack Goldstein

Narrated by: Kent Harris

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Bob Marley is the world’s best known reggae artist. His songs have brought pleasure to millions across the world and his legacy lives on to this very day. In this fascinating audio-book, Kent Harris tells you all about the great man, from his family to his work with the Wailers, his beliefs and much more. So whether you’re a long-term fan or... Read more

Kleiner Stern, ich hab dich gern - Abridged

By: Ulrich Maske

Narrated by: Thomas Friz

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der kleine Stern blitzt und blinkt am Himmelszelt, der Sandmann flüstert "Gute Nacht" und das Abendschiff bringt schöne Träume. Mit diesen Abendliedern kommen kleine Alltagshelden zur Ruhe und können den aufregenden Tag langsam ausklingen lassen. Inhalt: Kleiner Stern • Mein müder Engel • Abend • All die schönen kleine Pferde • Der Mond ist... Read more

101 Amazing Facts about Ed Sheeran

By: Jack Goldstein & Frankie Taylor

Narrated by: Kent Harris

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you the world's biggest Ed Sheeran fan? Or do you want to know everything there is to know about one of the most talented singer-songwriters of a generation? In this excellent audio-book, Kent Harris tells us everything about Ed, from how he got started in the music industry, to his tattoos, collaborations with other artists and much more.... Read more

26: Wir machen Musik - Abridged

By: Conny Heindl & Friederike Wilhelmi

Narrated by: Laszlo Büntig, Niklas Kracht, Caroline Ebner, J...

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Neugier unserer Jüngsten kennt keine Grenzen. Alles wollen sie genau wissen und den ganzen Tag sind sie damit beschäftigt, uns unzählige Fragen zu stellen. Wieso kaut die Kuh auch im Liegen? Wie belagert der Ritter eine Burg? Warum sind Feuerwehrautos rot? Die Hörspielreihe WAS IST WAS Junior ist für alle Kinder gemacht, die noch nicht lesen... Read more

Equipment for Living

By: Michael Robbins

Narrated by: Rudy Sanda

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

How can art help us make sense of the world? With the same intelligence that animates his poetry, Michael Robbins addresses this weighty question while contemplating the idea of how strange it is that we need art at all.



Ranging from Prince to Def Leppard, Lucille Clifton to Frederick Seidel, Robbins's mastery of poetry and popular music shines in... Read more

Amazing Performers

By: author

Narrated by: Collins

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello-playerLouis Armstrong, the American trumpet-player and singerFrank Sinatra, the Italian-American singer and actorÉdith Piaf, France's famous singing starMaria Callas, the Greek opera singerElvis Presley, the man who changed pop... Read more

Amazing Performers

By: author

Narrated by: Collins

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring stories of 5 people who changed history. Contents:Glenn Miller, the leader of the most famous big band in the USAPérez Prado, the Cuban musician who was known as ‘the King of Mambo’Ella Fitzgerald, the most popular female jazz singer in the USALuciano Pavarotti, one of the world’s best opera singersJohn Lennon,... Read more

A History of Heavy Metal

By: Andrew O'Neill

Narrated by: Andrew O'Neill

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

'Absolutely hilarious' - Neil Gaiman

'One of the funniest musical commentators that you will ever read . . . loud and thoroughly engrossing' - Alan Moore

'A man on a righteous mission to persuade people to "lay down your souls to the gods rock and roll".' - The Sunday Times

'As funny and preposterous as this mighty music deserve' - John Higgs


The... Read more

So Much Things to Say

By: Roger Steffens

Narrated by: Roger Steffens

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Bob Marley's life is the stuff of legend. Raised in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Marley (1945–1981) wrote songs that inspired millions. So Much Things to Say tells Marley's life story like never before. Roger Steffens traveled with the Wailers, interviewed Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer extensively, and took iconic Marley photographs. Now,... Read more

Wo die großen Elefanten spazieren geh'n - Abridged

By: Die fabelhaften 3

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ohren auf für frische Sounds! Mit dem Besten aus über 180 Jahren Musikgeschichte begeistern die fabelhaften 3 Klein und Groß. Eigene Songs und freche Klassiker von Fredrik Vahle bis Reinhard Mey laden zum Mitsingen, Tanzen und Träumen ein. Ein fabelhafter Musik-Mix für die ganze Familie. Inhalt: Besser geht es mit Musik • Trau dich! • Der... Read more