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Rememberings by Sinead O'Connor 9781844885428
RRP: $23.08$16.32THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021Sinead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her recording of Prince's 'Nothing Compares 2 U' made her a global icon. She... -
Life by Keith Richards
RRP: $27.28$15.77Once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend - the No. 1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller.'Electrifying' New York Times'A masterpiece' The Word'Funny, poignant, brutally honest' Sunday TelegraphWith the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics... -
Being Elvis: A Lonely Life by Ray Connolly
RRP: $27.28$18.06The perfect companion to Baz Luhrmann's forthcoming biopic Elvis, a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Austin Butler.What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner? As the world's first... -
Arhoolie Records Down Home Music: The Stories and Photographs of Chris Strachwitz by Joel Selvin 9781797222288
RRP: $63.00$38.45A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety, through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie records. Founded in 1960 by Chris Strachwitz, the one-man operation of Arhoolie Records... -
Paul Weller - The Changing Man by Paolo Hewitt
RRP: $27.28$19.09Paolo Hewitt has known Paul Weller since they were both teenagers in the depths of Woking, through his ascent to fame with The Jam, the halcyon years of The Style Council and for all of his critically acclaimed solo career. Hewitt has even been the... -
Fleetwood Mac in Chicago: The Legendary Chess Blues Session, January 4, 1969 by Marshall Chess
RRP: $77.68$50.36A book showcasing the legendary Fleetwood Mac blues session at Chicago's Chess Studios in January 1969 This book focuses on a crucial moment in the history of one of the most popular bands in music history and its beginnings as a blues band in the late... -
Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis
RRP: $31.48$22.81Miles: The Autobiography, like the man himself, holds nothing back. He talks about his battles against drugs and racism, and discusses the many women in his life. But above all, Miles talks about music and musicians, including the legends he has played... -
I Put A Spell On You: The Autobiography Of Nina Simone by Nina Simone
RRP: $29.38$19.32A gorgeous, inimitable singer and songwriter, Nina Simone (1933-2003) changed the face of both music and race relations in America. She struck a chord with bluesy jazz ballads like "Put a Little Sugar in My Bowl" and powerful protest songs such as... -
Blues Before Sunrise 2: Interviews from the Chicago Scene by Steve Cushing
RRP: $46.18$39.46In this new collection of interviews, Steve Cushing once again invites readers into the vaults of Blues Before Sunrise, his acclaimed nationally syndicated public radio show. Icons from Memphis Minnie to the Gay Sisters stand alongside figures like... -
Jazz Dance: The Story Of American Vernacular Dance by Marshall W. Stearns
RRP: $35.68$25.07The Story of American Vernacular DanceAbout the AuthorThe late Marshall Stearns was author of The Story of Jazz, and was the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and Institute of Jazz Studies. He was also a professor of English at Hunger College in New... -
Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK by Jackie Kay
RRP: $23.08$15.37A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKBessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer. Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived. 'A gem of a book . . . beautiful.' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'A... -
Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton by Philip Norman 9781474606578
RRP: $31.48$20.58Eric Clapton is acknowledged to be rock's greatest virtuoso, the unrivalled master of its most essential tool, the solid-body electric guitar.Clapton transfigured three of the 1960s' most iconic bands - the Yardbirds, Cream and Blind Faith - walking away... -
Cream: Clapton, Bruce and Baker Sitting on Top of the World: San Francisco, February-March 1968 by Edoardo Genzolini
RRP: $48.28$31.61Cream, the immensely influential British rock power trio of the 1960s, comprising guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce, and drummer Ginger Baker, forged an extraordinary partnership with the vibrant city of San Francisco, California. This legendary... -
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
RRP: $20.98$14.93'A masterpiece, as fresh and shocking as if it were written yesterday' Craig Brown"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'."Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the... -
I Put A Spell On You: The Bizarre Life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins by Steve Bergsman 9781627310758
RRP: $35.68$24.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310758Author Steve BergsmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Rock, Jazz and Pop Arranging: All the Facts and All the Know-how by Daryl Runswick 9780571511082
RRP: $52.50$42.63A practical comprehensive guide to rock, jazz and pop arranged by one of Britain's most gifted and versatile musicians. Written in lively, accessible and entertaining style, Rock, Jazz and Pop Arranging contains everything the professional arranger or... -
Gary Moore by Harry Shapiro 9781911036975
RRP: $35.60$25.01Gary Moore delighted entire generations with his passionate guitar playing, from the driving rock of Thin Lizzy in the 1970s to his explorations in subsequent decades of jazz fusion, heavy metal, hard rock, blues rock, and more. Throughout that time, he... -
Quantick's Quite Difficult Quiz Book by David Quantick
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Best quiz book ever'HARRY HILL'Quantick is the Captain Beefheart of quizzing'MARK BILLINGHAM'The antidote to every deathly dull pub quiz you've ever been to. This is how a quiz book should be written - where having fun is the most important outcome'GARY... -
Bird Lives!: The High Life And Hard Times Of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker by Ross Russell
$39.56This work on Charlie "Bird" Parker offers a picture of not only of the saxophonist-composer as an artist and as a human being, but also of zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. It shows his complex personality; his great appetites;... -
King of the Delta Blues Singers: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton by Edward Komara
RRP: $79.70$49.83Born 130 years ago in the heart of Mississippi, Charlie Patton (c. 1891-1934) is considered by many to be a father of the Delta blues. With his bullish baritone voice and his fluid slide guitar touch, Patton established songs like "Pony Blues," "A... -
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
RRP: $20.98$14.07WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND 'This is one of the most imaginative - and therefore moving - memoirs I have ever read' - Vivian Gornick, author of... -
Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records by Rob Bowman 9780825672842
$54.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825672842Author Rob BowmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Schirmer BooksPublisher Cengage GaleWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 152mm * 25mm -
King of the Blues: The Life and Times of B. B. King by Daniel de Vise
RRP: $42.00$29.11'Without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced' Eric Clapton'No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues' President Barack Obama'One part of me says, "Yes, of course I can play." But the other part of me says, "Well, I wish... -
The Devil's Music: A History Of The Blues by Giles Oakley
RRP: $27.28$18.06Superbly researched and vividly written, The Devil's Music is one of the only books to trace the rise and development of the blues both in relation to other forms of black music and in the context of American social history as experienced by African... -
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Palmer 9780140062236
RRP: $37.80$23.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140062236Author Robert PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm... -
Preachin' the Blues: The Life and Times of Son House by Daniel Beaumont 9780195395570
RRP: $46.18$45.97In June of 1964, three young, white blues fans set out from New York City in a Volkswagen, heading for the Mississippi Delta in search of a musical legend. So begins Preachin' the Blues, the biography of American blues signer and guitarist Eddie James... -
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire by Joe Nick Patoski
$33.08Hailed as the greatest guitarist since Hendrix, virtuoso Stevie Ray Vaughan forged a distinctive style out of blues, rock and roll and R&B roots. A genuine guitar hero who crafted his attack in countless pass-the-hat jams in Austin bars and ended his... -
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib 9780141995793
RRP: $23.08$16.32**As featured on Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List**Winner of the Gordon Burn PrizeWinner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the Pen/Diamonstein-Spievogel... -
Nothing but the Blues: the Music and the Musicians by Lawrence Cohn
RRP: $60.88$42.84It is our most passionate music, rooted in ancient Africa but brought to blossom in America at the doorstep of the twentieth century. It is a living heritage of song born in poverty, persecution, and hard labor, born of love and love betrayed, of... -
Giant Steps: Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz, 1945-65 by Kenny Mathieson 9780862418595
RRP: $33.60$23.02Giant Steps examines the most important figures in the creation of modern jazz, detailing the emergence of bebop through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk. Using this as its starting point, Giant... -
Blues with a Feeling: The Little Walter Story by Tony Glover 9780415937115
RRP: $83.98$73.63Whenever you hear the prevalent wailing blues harmonica in commercials, film soundtracks or at a blues club, you are experiencing the legacy of the master harmonica player, Little Walter. Immensely popular in his lifetime, Little Walter had fourteen Top... -
Music Therapy: An art beyond words by Leslie Bunt
RRP: $83.98$73.63Music therapy is recognised as being applicable to a wide range of healthcare and social contexts. Since the first edition of Music Therapy: An art beyond words, it has extended into areas of general medicine, mainstream education and community practice... -
Irish Folk, Trad & Blues: A Secret History by Colin Harper 9781901447408
RRP: $31.48$21.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901447408Author Colin HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 425Imprint Cherry Red BooksPublisher Cherry Red BooksWeight(grams) 659g -
Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson by Annye C. Anderson
RRP: $46.20$30.58Though only 27-years-young and relatively unknown at the time of his tragic death in 1938, Robert Johnson's enduring recordings have solidified his status as a progenitor of the Delta Blues style. And yet, while his music has retained the steadfast... -
Blues From Laurel Canyon: My Life as a Bluesman by John Mayall
RRP: $42.00$30.01John Mayall's story is like no other in the annals of rock and blues. Born in the UK in 1933, he laid the foundations of British blues, nurtured a generation of future superstars and then took the music back to the land of its birth. This extraordinary... -
The Essence Of The Blues - Tenor Saxophone: 10 great etudes for playing and improvising on the blues by Jim Snidero 9783954810529
RRP: $39.88$32.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783954810529Author Jim SnideroPage Count 56Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd -
Blues Harmonica For Dummies by Winslow Yerxa
RRP: $48.28$32.70Breathe the blues into your harmonica! Blues harmonica is the most popular and influential style of harmonica playing, and it forms the basis for playing harmonica in other styles such as rock and country. Blues Harmonica for Dummies gives you a wealth... -
The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire by Ted Gioia
RRP: $73.48$65.29An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommended tracks, and enhancements and additions on almost every page. Since the first edition of The Jazz... -
Dana Gillespie: Weren't Born A Man by Dana Gillespie 9781838099053
RRP: $41.98$35.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838099053Author Dana GillespieFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Hawksmoor PublishingPublisher Hawksmoor Publishing -
R. Crumb Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country by Stephen Calt
RRP: $33.58$23.27For over three decades R. Crumb has shocked, entertained, titillated and challenged the imaginations (and the inhibitions) of comics fans the world over. The acknowledged father of "underground comix," Crumb is the single greatest influence on the...