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Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band by Willie Nelson and Bobbie Nelson
BUY Amazon | Bookshop The untold story of Willie Nelson and his sister, Bobbie, who, over the course of their lives together, supported each other through personal tragedies and triumphs and forged an unbreakable bond through their shared love of...
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Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones
BUY Amazon | Bookshop The definitive oral history of the New Romantics. Sweet Dreams charts the British cultural explosion that happened in the ten years from 1975-1985 ― the rise of the New Romantics....
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Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz
BUY Amazon | Bookshop “I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was then...
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One Last Song: Conversations on Life, Death and Music by Mike Ayers
BUY Amazon | Bookshop If you could choose the last song you'd hear before you died, what would it be and why? Your favorite song of all time? Perhaps the one you...
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My Name is Love by Darlene Love
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured in the film Twenty Feet From Stardom, the woman whose voice the New York Times said "is as embedded in the history of rock 'n' roll as Eric Clapton's guitar...
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This Isn’t Happening: Radiohead’s Kid A and the Beginning of the 20th Century by Steven Hyden
BUY Amazon | Bookshop In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the...
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Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year by Michelangelo Matos
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Everybody knows the hits of 1984 - pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It"...
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She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular vulnerabilities—and strengths—of women in working poverty. Meanwhile, country songs by female artists played...
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Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of the remarkable life and career of a country music and pop culture legend.As told by Dolly Parton...
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