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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Bringing Music To Life: A Gathering of Sound Healers
By: Don Campbell, Pat Moffit Cook, Jeff Volk, John ...
Narrated by: Jeff Wessman & Jeff Volk
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
What is it about sound, rhythm and music that affect us so powerfully? In this program, presenters from the Sixth International Sound Colloquium, held in Colorado in 1998, discuss the many ways drums, voice, and music are used to change our physical, mental, and emotional states in positive, healing ways. Read more
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Climbing Up on the Rough Side
By: Hopeful Gospel
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The long-awaited second audio recording by the Hopeful Gospel QuartetRobin and Linda Williams, Kate MacKenzie, and Garrison Keilloris old-time gospel singing at its best. Recorded live during broadcasts of Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, it features instrumentals by Butch Thompson, Chet Atkins, and others.
Tracks:
Climbing Up On... Read more
A History of Music in Western Civilization
By: Various
Narrated by: Various
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
From anonymous 10th century troubadours to world-renowned 20th century composers, A History of Music of the Western World explores the roots of the most influential music genres of our time. Essential listening for students and lovers of great music, the collection includes stimulating discussions by 15 prominent music authorities, including... Read more
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The Sound of Creativity
By: Julia Cameron & Tim Wheater
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In this captivating dialogue, Julia Cameron and Tim Wheater explore how music can enhance your creative powers. "If we are willing to enter into sound, allow sound into our lives, begin to make sounds, our creative powers become so much larger," according to Cameron. Read more
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Shake It, Break It and Hang It on the Wall
By: Guy's All Star Shoe Band
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
This first and only recording of the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band features Rich Dworsky (piano), Andy Stein (violin, saxophone), Pat Donohue (guitar) and Arnie Kinsella (drums), with guest Garrison Keillor contributing vocals on several tracks. Their repertoire is an irresistible mix of timeless jazz, blues, and pop standards.
Tracks:
The Weary and... Read more
The Route 66 Audio Collection
By: Jimmy Gray & Joe Loesch
Narrated by: Dennis Stone, John Sherberg, Don King & Joe Loesch
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
America's Main Street
Author - Jimmy Gray
Narrator - Dennis Stone
Time - 61:43:00
For three generations of travelers, Route 66 was the highway that linked America together. It was The Mother Road and there was never another like it. Hear the stories of the tourists, the Okies, the wartime GI's, the people who ran the tourist... Read more
Catskills on Broadway
By: Freddie Roman, Dick Capri, Louise Duart & Mal Z...
Narrated by: Freddie Roman, Dick Capri, Louise Duart & Mal Z...
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Outer Critics' Circle Award winner for Outstanding Broadway Comedy! A cast of comedians recreate the uproarious humor made famous by many of the legendary performers who got their starts at New York's Catskill resorts. Debuting at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in 1991, Catskills of Broadway was a critically acclaimed show that played to... Read more
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Making Music With the Wild Things
By: Paul Winter
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A pioneer of integrating animal calls and instrumental music, Paul Winter combines environmental sensitivity and artistic freedom with exquisite ingenuity and skill. This conversation is richly enlivened with samples of the music for which he is known, an astounding variety of new pieces he has collected from around the world, and first-hand... Read more
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Bringing the Song Inside Out
By: Rachel Bagby
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Breaking into chant and song even as she is speaking, Rachel Bagby shows us how music can do more than we ever thought possible. She believes in, "giving the sacred back to our breath, and giving our breath back to the sacred," and describes what happens when we start listening to and expressing the music inside of us. Read more
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The Sound of Healing
By: Sharry Edwards
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A remarkable discussion with a woman who hears "signature sounds" emitted from other people's bodies--it's "the sound missing from their voice," she says. These sounds, when sung back to them, seem to have miraculous, documented healing powers in a multitude of "hopeless" medical situations. Read more
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