Fairewaves: Remixed Music

Happiness Becomes You

By: Tina Turner
Narrated by: Adrienne Warren
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Tina Turner—legendary singer and actress, icon to millions, and author of the “brave and wry” (Vulture) memoir My Love Story—shares her deeply personal book of wisdom that explores her longstanding faith in Buddhism and provides a guide to these timeless principles so you can find happiness in your own life.

I dedicate this book to you…
in honor... Read more

She Come By It Natural

Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

By: Sarah Smarsh
Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

“This slim cultural study lovingly explores how Dolly Parton’s music has given a voice to generations of working-class women. Parton is one of the few celebrities that has a truly unifying effect, bringing folks together from all walks of life. This book will give you a greater (if that’s even possible) appreciation of Dolly and might even give... Read more

Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust

My Friendship with Patsy Cline

By: Loretta Lynn
Narrated by: Patsy Lynn Russell
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Discover the "important and inspiring" and never-before-told complete story of the remarkable relationship between country music icons Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn (Miranda Lambert).

Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends—country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta tells their story: a celebration of their... Read more

Quarantine Session #5 Kathy Valentine with Lizz Winstead at Greenlight Bookstore

By: Kathy Valentine
Narrated by: Lizz Winstead
Length: 57 minutes

Rock legend Kathy Valentine, bassist for the Go-Gos drummer, riffs on her memoir All I Ever Wanted /em> with fellow icon Lizz Winstead, humorist and founder of the Daily Show. Like the book, their conversation covers a lot of ground: the highs and lows of rock & roll, the challenges of being a woman in entertainment, abortion rights,... Read more

Simon the Fiddler

A Novel

By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

“Simon Boudlin’s passion is to be the best fiddle player there is, beholden to no one and following his muse wherever it takes him. But when he meets the beautiful Doris Aherne, his plans change. Paulette Jiles once again captures the great promise and sweeping beauty of the Texas frontier in cinematic prose as poetic and lyrical as the tunes... Read more

All I Ever Wanted

A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

By: Kathy Valentine
Narrated by: Kathy Valentine
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

This brutally honest memoir tells the story of The Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine’s impact on the music world and how she moved forward following the end of the band that once defined her whole life.

At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go's-and the band... Read more

More Myself

A Journey

By: Alicia Keys
Narrated by: Alicia Keys, America Ferrera, Bono, Clive Davis, Craig Cook, DJ Walton, Jay-Z, Krucial, Leigh Blake, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Swizz Beats & Terri Augelo
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

**Winner of the 2021 Audie Award for Narration by Author or Authors**
**An AudioFile Earphones Award-winning production**

This program is read by Alicia Keys, with special guest appearances by family and friends, including Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z, and Michelle Obama.

An intimate, revealing look at one artist’s journey from self-censorship to full... Read more

The Book of Exodus

The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Album of the Century

By: Vivien Goldman
Narrated by: Vivien Goldman
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Here is an unforgettable portrait of Bob Marley and an acutely perceptive appreciation of his musical and spiritual legacy.Reggae superstar Bob Marley is one of the world’s most important and influential artists. Exodus, named by Time magazine as “Album of the Century,” is Bob Marley’s masterpiece of spiritual exploration. Recorded in London... Read more

Janis

Her Life and Music

By: Holly George-Warren
Narrated by: Nina Arianda
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.

Janis Joplin’s first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of... Read more

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Pulitzer Prize Winner

By: Jennifer Egan
Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).

One of the New... Read more

Music from Another World

By: Robin Talley
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler & Emily Lawrence
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

A master of award-winning queer historical fiction, New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley brings to life an emotionally captivating story about the lives of two teen girls living in an age when just being yourself was an incredible act of bravery.

It’s summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can’t be herself anywhere. Not at her... Read more

Mutations

The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk

By: Sam McPheeters
Narrated by: Sam McPheeters
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an outlet, excuse, lifestyle, escapism, conversation, community, ideology, sales category, social movement, punishable offense, badge of authenticity, reason to drink beer forever, or an aesthetic of belligerent... Read more

Bowie's Bookshelf

The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life

By: John O'Connell
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities.



In 100 short essays, music journalist John O'Connell studies each book on Bowie's list and contextualizes it in the... Read more

Better Days Will Come Again

The Life of Arthur Briggs, Jazz Genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi Prison Camp

By: Travis Atria
Narrated by: David Sadzin
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Arthur Briggs's life was Homeric in scope. Born on the the tiny island of Grenada, he set sail for Harlem during the Renaissance, then to Europe in the aftermath of World War I, where he was among the first pioneers to introduce jazz music to the world. During the legendary Jazz Age in Paris, Briggs's trumpet provided the soundtrack while... Read more

Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues

Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls

By: Monique W. Morris
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

A groundbreaking and visionary call to action on educating and supporting girls of color, from the highly acclaimed author of Pushout.



Wise Black women have known for centuries that the blues have been a platform for truth-telling, an underground musical railroad to survival, and an essential form of resistance, healing, and learning. In her... Read more

The Beautiful Ones

By: Prince
Narrated by: Esperanza Spalding, Adepero Oduye & Dan Piepenbring
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own words—featuring the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death

Prince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and acclaimed musicians of our time. He was a startlingly original visionary with an... Read more

Touched by the Sun

My Friendship with Jackie

By: Carly Simon
Narrated by: Elizabeth McGovern
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha’s Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship.

Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair—Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her recent divorce, searching for meaning, new love, and an anchor; and Jackie, one of the most celebrated,... Read more

Jeff Buckley

His Own Voice

By: Mary Guibert & David Browne
Narrated by: Reeve Carney, Robert Petkoff & David Browne
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

The journals, notebooks, musings, and early song drafts of Jeff Buckley, the late singer best-known for the definitive version of "Hallelujah" and his classic album Grace, including dozens of evocative photos of his personal effects and ephemera.
After the release of his acclaimed debut album, Grace, in 1994, Jeff Buckley quickly established... Read more

Horror Stories

A Memoir

By: Liz Phair
Narrated by: Liz Phair
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

The two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyville traces her life and career in a genre-bending memoir in stories about the pivotal moments that haunt her.

When Liz Phair shook things up with her musical debut, Exile in Guyville—making her as much a cultural figure as a feminist pioneer and rock... Read more

Face It

A Memoir

By: Debbie Harry
Narrated by: Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Alannah Currie & Gary Valentine
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

A vinyl edition of Face It, the much-anticipated autobiography from rock icon and lead singer of Blondie, Debbie Harry. Face It Vinyl is performed by Debbie Harry with vocal guest appearances from Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Alannah Currie, and Gary Valentine with original music by Chris Stein. Face It Vinyl features two records filled with... Read more