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Drive Like Hell: A Novel by Dallas Hudgens 9780743261814
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Wanting desperately to be behind the wheel, Luke Fulmer counts down the days to his sixteenth birthday, when he can finally get his license. Unfortunately, the first thing he does with it is "borrow"... -
Randy Wood: The Lore of the Luthier by Daniel Wile
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.25In the 1960s and 1970s, Randy Wood was a forerunner in the vintage instrument industry. Known as the instrument repairman to the stars, the list of Wood's clients reads like a Hall of Fame roster:... -
Willie Nelson - An Epic Life by Joe Nick Patoski 9780316017794
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Willie Nelson has spent the last 30 years on that higher plane of celebrity where he signifies many things to many people--American folk hero, national treasure, Outlaw, tax dodger, country... -
From Blood by Edward Wright 9780752884080
Booksplease Price: £20.85A young woman's race against the clock to find her parents' killers - before the killers find her...Shannon Fairchild's life has spectacularly derailed. Shelving her PhD to clean the homes of the... -
Dion: The Rock and Roll Philosopher Dion DiMucci 9781493088027
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.83Dion DiMucci rose to Rock and Roll fame in the late 1950s with three top-forty hits as the lead singer of Dion and the Belmonts, "Runaround Sue," "The Wanderer," and "A Teenager in Love." Later... -
Damnation Falls by Edward Wright 9780752881843
Booksplease Price: £20.85A stunningly atmospheric contemporary stand-alone - about murder, madness and dangerous secrets in a small townRandall Wilkes, his big-city journalism career in ruins, has returned after twenty years... -
Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780820329659
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £20.94Religion has permeated nearly every aspect of modern southern culture, with results that range from portraits of Jesus on black velvet to the soul-stirring orations of Martin Luther King Jr. In... -
Making It in Country Music: An Insider's Look at the Industry by Rich Redmond 9781538172513
Booksplease Price: £23.94Rich Redmond, drummer for superstar Jason Aldean, provides a shot of inspiration for those interested in jump-starting a music career. Any successful musician will tell you the most common question... -
Bruce Springsteen - The Stories Behind the Songs: Bruce Springsteen by Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone Journalist Brian Hiatt 9781787395404
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.97Important insight into the work of a truly great songwriter.Updated to include the albums Western Stars and Letter To You and packed full of insightful stories from Springsteen's long career, Bruce... -
San Antonio Rose: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BOB WILLS by Charles Townsend 9780252013621
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.34"Until Hank Williams came along, it was just Bob Willis," says Willie Nelson. "He was it." And indeed he was, especially for the thousands in the Southwest who knew and loved the King of Western... -
The Art of Producing: How to Create Great Audio Projects David Gibson 9780815369387
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £42.10The Art of Producing is the first book to standardize a specific production process for creating a successful music project from start to finish. Learn how to develop a step-by-step process for... -
Patti Smith: America's Punk Rock Rhapsodist by Eric Wendell 9780810886902
Booksplease Price: £46.75Nicknamed the "Godmother of Punk," Patti Smith rose to fame during the 1970s New York counterculture movement where she welcomed a new breed of rock and roll. Smith sanctioned the presence of a... -
The Drummer's Bible: How to Play Every Drum Style from Afro-Cuban to Zydeco by Mick Berry 9781937276195
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £21.38Updated to include 50 additional grooves, this encyclopedic book and two-CD set contains more than 450 musical examples in standard notation, showing grooves and practical variations. Overviews of... -
Impossible Princess by Kevin Killian 9780872865280
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68"Whatever his subject matter, Killian maintains full authority-offering up a homoerotic interpretation of Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find and a brilliant imagined history of Hank... -
Old Roots, New Routes: The Cultural Politics of Alt.Country Music by Pamela Fox 9780472050536
Booksplease Price: £30.42Old Roots, New Routes takes an in-depth look at the many influences, meanings, and identities of this contemporary music form. Because the definition of the term alt.country changes continually, even... -
Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century by Barry Mazor 9780195327625
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £56.54In the nearly eight decades since his death from tuberculosis at age thirty-five, singer-songwriter Jimmie Rodgers has been an inspiration for numerous top performers--from Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly,... -
Old Roots, New Routes: The Cultural Politics of Alt.Country Music by Pamela Fox 9780472070534
RRP: £72.95Booksplease Price: £70.46Old Roots, New Routes takes an in-depth look at the many influences, meanings, and identities of this contemporary music form. Because the definition of the term alt.country changes continually, even... -
Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American Made Music by Ryan Andre Brasseaux 9780195343069
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £39.38In 1946, Harry Choates, a Cajun fiddle virtuoso, changed the course of American musical history when his recording of the so-called Cajun national anthem "Jole Blon" reached number four on the... -
This Will End in Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music by Adam Brent Houghtaling 9780061719677
Booksplease Price: £11.06For anyone who listens reverentially in the half-light to Robert Johnson, Nick Drake, or Morrisey, who wait anxiously for new albums from The Cure, Leonard Cohen, or The Blue Nile, who buy up... -
Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story by Diane Diekman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56As one of the best-known honky tonkers to appear in the wake of Hank Williams's death, Faron Young was a popular presence on Nashville's music scene for more than four decades. The Singing Sheriff... -
Howdy!: The Minnie Pearl Story Mary Ellen Pethel 9798895270585
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.03"Take the backroads, not the highways," Minnie Pearl often said-a sentiment that captures her life's winding, unpredictable journey. Born Sarah Ophelia Colley in 1912, she grew up in Centerville,... -
Natural Acts: Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music by Pamela Fox 9780472050680
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.27"'All I gotta do is act naturally,' Buck Owens sang, and Pamela Fox knows where the acting comes in. From early hillbilly acts to alt.country, Natural Acts lays bare, with wide-ranging scholarship... -
This Place of Promise: A Historian's Perspective on 200 Years of Missouri History by Gary R Kremer
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £26.83Conceived of as a way to commemorate Missouri's bicentennial of statehood, this unique work presents the perspective of Gary Kremer, one of the Show-Me State's foremost historians, as he ponders why... -
In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey by Jim Rooney 9780252038235
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £82.92Inspired by the Hank Williams and Leadbelly recordings he heard as a teenager growing up outside of Boston, Jim Rooney began a musical journey that intersected with some of the biggest names in... -
A Cappella Arranging 2.0: The Next Level by Deke Sharon 9781538172650
Booksplease Price: £103.01In this highly anticipated sequel to A Cappella Arranging, Deke Sharon and Dylan Bell provide even more tools and insights to help musicians master the craft of a cappella arranging-including new... -
In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey by Jim Rooney 9780252079818
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98Inspired by the Hank Williams and Leadbelly recordings he heard as a teenager growing up outside of Boston, Jim Rooney began a musical journey that intersected with some of the biggest names in... -
In the Name of the Father: Family, Football, and the Manning Dynasty by Mark Ribowsky 9781631493096
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.36For generations, American athletes have enjoyed the ever-escalating celebrity lavished upon them when they combine on-the-field talent with off-the field charisma, but never before have we seen as... -
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £4.63FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER WHOSE BOOKS HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 40 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecilia Ahern__________At nine years old, Frankie Presto is... -
The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition by Stephen T. Asma
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.86Tracing the leading role of emotions in the evolution of the mind, a philosopher and a psychologist pair up to reveal how thought and culture owe less to our faculty for reason than to our capacity... -
Soul Covers: Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow) by Michael Awkward 9780822339977
Booksplease Price: £33.41Soul Covers is an engaging look at how three very different rhythm and blues performers-Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow-used cover songs to negotiate questions of artistic, racial, and... -
Black Moses: The Hot-Buttered Life and Soul of Isaac Hayes by Mark Ribowsky 9781642938869
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.76The first biography of soul pioneer Isaac Hayes, whose groundbreaking music provided the foundation for hip-hop and a new racial paradigm."Black men could finally stand up and be men because here's... -
Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American-Made Music by Ryan Andre Brasseaux 9780190628444
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.53In 1946, Harry Choates, a Cajun fiddle virtuoso, changed the course of American musical history when his recording of the so-called Cajun national anthem "Jole Blon" reached number four on the... -
Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music by Diane Pecknold
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have helped to shape the styles of many of the most important performers in the country canon. The partnership... -
Driving With The Devil by Neal Thompson
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.13The true story behind NASCAR's hardscrabble, moonshine-fueled origins, "fascinating and fast-moving . . . even if you don't know a master cylinder from a head gasket" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)... -
From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen by Professor Marcia Pally
Booksplease Price: £27.79Leonard Cohen's troubled relationship with God is here mapped onto his troubled relationships with sex and politics. Analysing Covenantal theology and its place in Cohen's work, this book is the... -
Tangled Roots: A Guide to American Music Museums, Historical Sites, and Other Points of Interest Josephine Matyas 9781493089635
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.29The first-ever guidebook to North American music museums and other sites, from the iconic to the obscure.Wherever you are, you don't have to go far in North America to find world-class music museums... -
Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes: Jim Walsh on Music from Minneapolis to the Outer Limits by Jim Walsh 9781517901813
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90Bar Yarns and Manic Depressive Mix Tapes distills thirty delirious, jam-packed years of some of the best music writing ever to come out of the Twin Cities. As a writer and musician, the ever-curious... -
I'll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt by Brian T. Atkinson 9781603445269
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24The writer of such influential songs as Pancho and Lefty, To Live's to Fly, If I Needed You, and For the Sake of the Song, Townes Van Zandt exerted an influence on at least two generations of Texas... -
Once There Were Giants: The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing by Jerry Izenberg
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30**New edition updated with a foreword by Manny Pacquiao.** A celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by an International Boxing... -
Making It in Country Music: An Insider's Look at the Industry Rich Redmond 9798881807566
Booksplease Price: £17.90Rich Redmond, drummer for superstar Jason Aldean, provides a shot of inspiration for those interested in jump-starting a music career. Any successful musician will tell you the most common question...