Music audiobooks
Ricky Martin: Red-Hot and on the Rise!
By: Kathleen Tracy
Narrated by: Christian Noble & K. McElheny
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Fresh from his Grammy win for best Latin pop album, this sizzling Latin heartthrob is on the verge crossing over into mainstream music superstardom. This timely profile of Martin's life starts with his childhood in Puerto Rico and chronicles his rise to a popular Latin singer, his stint on "General Hospital, " and his Broadway debut in "Les... Read more
View audiobookThe Musical Life of Gustav Mole
By: Kathryn Meyrick
Narrated by: Patrick Macnee
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Gustav Mole is lucky enough to be born into a musical family, and this charming tale traces the enriching role that music plays in his life. Gustav's musical education is rich and diverse, covering a wide variety of genres and styles. This is the perfect introduction to musical instruments, ensembles and occasions, and a humourous and sensitive... Read more
View audiobookChronicles - 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
View audiobookFinding 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
View audiobookCar 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
View audiobookMarc 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... 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
View audiobookGilbert & 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
View audiobookWhatever 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
View audiobookFoolish/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
View audiobookBlind 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
View audiobookElvis 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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookCar 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
View audiobookMarlon 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
View audiobookMole 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
View audiobookThe Song of Leonard Cohen
By: Harry Rasky
Narrated by: Al Bernstein
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
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
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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