Last Train to Memphis
The Rise of Elvis Presley
By Peter Guralnick
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 22 hours 32 minutes
Written with grace, humor, and affection, Last Train to Memphis has been hailed as the definitive biography of Elvis Presley. It is the first to set aside the myths and focus on Elvis' humanity in a way that has yet to be duplicated.
A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award
"Elvis steps from the pages. You can... Read more »
The Rest Is Noise
Listening to the Twentieth Century
By Alex Ross
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 23 hours 7 minutes
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences; yet the influence of modern sound can be felt everywhere. Alex Ross, music critic for the New Yorker,...
Read more »What to Listen for in Music
By Aaron Copland
Narrated by: Tim Campbell
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Now in audio: "The definitive guide to musical enjoyment" (Forum).
In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring listeners a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms. Read more »
Just Kids
By Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the...
Read more »Born to Run
By Bruce Springsteen
Narrated by: Bruce Springsteen
Length: 18 hours 12 minutes
The revelatory and wildly bestselling memoir by legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen: “Glorious…a philosophically rich ramble through a rock ’n roll life…It’s the lyric he was born to write” (USA TODAY, 4 out of 4 stars).
Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life. The result is... Read more »
The Wrecking Crew
The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret
By Kent Hartman
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
If you were a fan of popular music in the 1960s and early '70s, you were a fan of the Wrecking Crew—whether you knew it or not.
On hit record after hit record by everyone from the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and the Monkees to the Grass Roots, the 5th Dimension, Sonny & Cher, and Simon & Garfunkel, this collection of West Coast studio... Read more »
Appetite for Self-Destruction
The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
By Steve Knopper
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 11 hours
For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world – and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees.... Read more »
JAY-Z
Made in America
By Michael Eric Dyson
Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson & Nick Cannon
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
This program is read by the author, and includes an introduction written by Pharrell, and read by Nick Cannon.
"Dyson's incisive analysis of JAY-Z's brilliance not only offers a brief history of hip-hop's critical place in American culture, but also hints at how we can best move forward." —Questlove
JAY-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael...
Elvis Presley
The Man. The Life. The Legend.
By Pamela Clarke Keogh
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
“Before Elvis there was nothing.”—John Lennon
“It was like he came along and whispered some dream in everybody’s ear, and somehow we all dreamed it.”—Bruce Springsteen
That voice, those eyes, that hair, the cars, the girls. Elvis Presley revolutionized American pop culture when, at age twenty-one, he became a modern superstar. He had a personal...
Read more »Bowie
The Biography
By Wendy Leigh
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Discover the man behind the myth in this new biography of one of the most pioneering and influential performers of our time—David Bowie.
David Bowie—the iconic superstar of rock, fashion, art, design, and the quintessential sexual liberator—is a living legend. However, for the past five decades, he has managed to retain his Hollywood star...
Read more »Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
By Lyah Beth LeFlore
Narrated by: Lizzie Cooper Davis
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
At thirty-five, Destiny Day is at the top of her game, and she is the shrewdest and most ambitious sister walking around in a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes. When she meets Taye Crawford, an independent financial advisor, Destiny finds herself moving in a direction she never anticipated. Read more »
Play It Loud
An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar
By Brad Tolinski & Alan di Perna
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
The inspiration for the Play It Loud exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Every guitar player will want to read this book twice. And even the casual music fan will find a thrilling narrative that weaves together cultural history, musical history, race, politics, business case studies, advertising, and technological discovery." —Daniel... Read more »