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The True Story of The Coward Brothers
- By: Elvis Costello
- Narrated by: T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Rhea Seehorn, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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The True Story of The Coward Brothers follows two musical brothers – one English, one American, both the illegitimate sons of dubious parentage who may, as they claim to be, "one and half-brothers" – perhaps a reference to the disparity in their height and relative talents.
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Star performances
- By Lorraine Fitzpatrick on 24-11-24
By: Elvis Costello
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Wildfire
- My Ten Years Getting High in The Prodigy
- By: Leeroy Thornhill
- Narrated by: Leeroy Thornhill
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Rave pioneers whose sound also encompassed hip hop, punk and rock, The Prodigy arguably had as much influence on contemporary pop culture as the Sex Pistols and these extraordinary images from Leeroy's personal archives capture the wild energy, ecstasy and abandon from the moment they dropped their first hit 'Charly' through the three albums which became the ubiquitous soundtrack to the decade: Experience, Music for the Jilted Generation and Fat of the Land.
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Great stories emotional too
- By Sam on 14-11-24
By: Leeroy Thornhill
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The Most Interesting Man in the World
- By: Vinnie Stigma, Howie Abrams - contributor, Roger Miret - foreword
- Narrated by: Vinnie Stigma, Howie Abrams
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Born Vincent Capuccio on December 3, 1955, Vinnie Stigma—as his countless friends and fans lovingly refer to him—is the founder and guitarist of New York City's legendary hardcore band Agnostic Front. He's also one of the Big Apple's earliest punk rockers, having frequented such eclectic downtown haunts as Max's Kansas City, The Electric Circus, and of course, CBGB while it was still known as Hilly's on the Bowery during the early 1970s.
By: Vinnie Stigma, and others
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We Are What We Listen To
- The Impact of Music on Individual and Social Health
- By: Dr. Patricia Caicedo M.D.
- Narrated by: Dr. Patricia Caicedo M.D.
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
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In this groundbreaking union of art and science, soprano, musicologist, and physician Patricia Caicedo explores the connection between music-its performance, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it-and health.
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Smilin' Don's Stories Behind the Songs: 1980-1989
- The History and Trivia Behind the Top 100 Hits of the 80s
- By: Steve Lee
- Narrated by: Nick Paras
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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Relive the Magic of the 80s: Discover the Untold Stories Behind the Decade's Biggest Chart-Toppers! Step into a time machine and relive the golden era of music with “Stories Behind the Songs: 1980-1989.” This captivating book takes you on a journey through the biggest hits of the 80s, unraveling the secrets, inspirations, and untold stories behind the top 100 chart-toppers that defined a generation.
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The stories behind the hits!
- By John 3456 on 25-11-24
By: Steve Lee
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Piano by Ear Pop and Standards Box Set 11
- By: Bill Brown
- Narrated by: Bill Brown
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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This Piano by Ear box set contains over thirteen hours of high quality music instruction teaching you some of the newest modern classical style songs for the piano. These solos are mostly at an intermediate level so most adult students who have been working with the piano for around two years can start working on these great solos right away.
By: Bill Brown
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The True Story of The Coward Brothers
- By: Elvis Costello
- Narrated by: T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Rhea Seehorn, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
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The True Story of The Coward Brothers follows two musical brothers – one English, one American, both the illegitimate sons of dubious parentage who may, as they claim to be, "one and half-brothers" – perhaps a reference to the disparity in their height and relative talents.
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Star performances
- By Lorraine Fitzpatrick on 24-11-24
By: Elvis Costello
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Wildfire
- My Ten Years Getting High in The Prodigy
- By: Leeroy Thornhill
- Narrated by: Leeroy Thornhill
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Rave pioneers whose sound also encompassed hip hop, punk and rock, The Prodigy arguably had as much influence on contemporary pop culture as the Sex Pistols and these extraordinary images from Leeroy's personal archives capture the wild energy, ecstasy and abandon from the moment they dropped their first hit 'Charly' through the three albums which became the ubiquitous soundtrack to the decade: Experience, Music for the Jilted Generation and Fat of the Land.
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Great stories emotional too
- By Sam on 14-11-24
By: Leeroy Thornhill
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The Most Interesting Man in the World
- By: Vinnie Stigma, Howie Abrams - contributor, Roger Miret - foreword
- Narrated by: Vinnie Stigma, Howie Abrams
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Story
Born Vincent Capuccio on December 3, 1955, Vinnie Stigma—as his countless friends and fans lovingly refer to him—is the founder and guitarist of New York City's legendary hardcore band Agnostic Front. He's also one of the Big Apple's earliest punk rockers, having frequented such eclectic downtown haunts as Max's Kansas City, The Electric Circus, and of course, CBGB while it was still known as Hilly's on the Bowery during the early 1970s.
By: Vinnie Stigma, and others
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We Are What We Listen To
- The Impact of Music on Individual and Social Health
- By: Dr. Patricia Caicedo M.D.
- Narrated by: Dr. Patricia Caicedo M.D.
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In this groundbreaking union of art and science, soprano, musicologist, and physician Patricia Caicedo explores the connection between music-its performance, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it-and health.
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Smilin' Don's Stories Behind the Songs: 1980-1989
- The History and Trivia Behind the Top 100 Hits of the 80s
- By: Steve Lee
- Narrated by: Nick Paras
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Relive the Magic of the 80s: Discover the Untold Stories Behind the Decade's Biggest Chart-Toppers! Step into a time machine and relive the golden era of music with “Stories Behind the Songs: 1980-1989.” This captivating book takes you on a journey through the biggest hits of the 80s, unraveling the secrets, inspirations, and untold stories behind the top 100 chart-toppers that defined a generation.
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The stories behind the hits!
- By John 3456 on 25-11-24
By: Steve Lee
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Piano by Ear Pop and Standards Box Set 11
- By: Bill Brown
- Narrated by: Bill Brown
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
This Piano by Ear box set contains over thirteen hours of high quality music instruction teaching you some of the newest modern classical style songs for the piano. These solos are mostly at an intermediate level so most adult students who have been working with the piano for around two years can start working on these great solos right away.
By: Bill Brown
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The Dark Story of Eminem
- By: Nick Hastead
- Narrated by: Nick Landrum
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
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An updated version of the celebrated story of how Marshall Mathers went from school and low-paid jobs in his native Detroit to global superstardom, rehab and comeback.
By: Nick Hastead
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The Lineage of Modern Jazz Piano
- A View from Richie Beirach Taken from Conversations with Michael Lake
- By: Richie Beirach, Michael Lake
- Narrated by: Michael Lake
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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Jazz is a relatively new art form. It's melodic and harmonic language has evolved throughout the past 100 years from one great innovator passing on his discoveries to the next as a kind of artistic baton passing. The piano has always lead the harmonic language of jazz, so in order to truly understand the evolution of this music, one must understand the lineage of the music's greatest piano players. In this book, Richie Beirach provides his incisive and at times inside knowledge of these 10 great piano players who defined the language of jazz.
By: Richie Beirach, and others
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The Jesus Music
- A Story of Redemption as Told by Those Who Lived It
- By: Marshall Terrill, Greg Laurie
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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The Jesus Music explores the history, evolution, and redemptive thread of Contemporary Christian music over the last fifty years as it spans the convergence of rock and roll, country, and gospel music.
By: Marshall Terrill, and others
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Teaching and Learning Jazz
- From Tradition to Technology: A Frank Appraisal of Jazz Education
- By: Richie Beirach, Michael Lake
- Narrated by: Michael Lake
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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Richie and Mike provide direct practical guidance on the skills and knowledge necessary for jazz to be passed on and performed well. The conversational tone of the book makes for entertaining and worthwhile listening. Those who have been teaching jazz for a long time will appreciate Richie's stories and his fearless opinions on jazz including how the teaching and learning of it are evolving (for good and for bad).
By: Richie Beirach, and others
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Live Dead
- The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness
- By: John Brackett
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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In Live Dead, musicologist John Brackett examines how live recordings—from the group's official releases to fan-produced tapes, bootlegs to "Betty Boards," and Dick's Picks to From the Vault—have shaped the general history and popular mythology of the Grateful Dead for more than fifty years.
By: John Brackett
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Women Writing Musicals
- The Legacy That the History Books Left Out
- By: Jennifer Ashley Tepper
- Narrated by: Jenn Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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From the women who pounded the pavement selling their songs in Tin Pan Alley at the turn of the twentieth century; to the women who broke new ground writing shows during the Great Depression; to the women who penned protest musicals fighting for social justice during the 1970s; to those who are revitalizing the landscape of American musicals today, Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy That the History Books Left Out is the first-ever book to tell the story of the over three hundred inspiring women who wrote Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals.
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The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names
- How Arcade Fire, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Vampire Weekend, and 532 Other Bands Got Their Names
- By: Adam Dolgins
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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By turns fascinating, funny, and bizarre, this book offers insight into the peculiar choices and idiosyncratic psychologies of hundreds of top musicians from the 1960s to the present. Originally published more than two decades ago to great success, it's been out of print for years and has now been completely updated and expanded to feature dozens of exclusive interviews, including conversations with groups like The Black Keys, The Killers, Twenty One Pilots, Coldplay, Cage the Elephant, and Vampire Weekend.
By: Adam Dolgins
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Puck Protocol
- A Rebel's Guide to Master Self-Sabotage: The One-Stop Solution for Stress and Clarity for Authors, Musicians, and the Creative Mind
- By: Kat Spencer
- Narrated by: Kat Spencer
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
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Are you tired of feeling stuck, battling self-sabotage, stress, and creative blockages? Ready to find a path to freedom and clarity? Puck Protocol: A Rebel's Guide to Master Self-Sabotage will take you on a journey to the ONE-Stop Solution for stress and clarity so you can re-ignite your creative flow.
By: Kat Spencer
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Practicing for Singers
- A Guide to Solid Practice Habits
- By: Joanie Brittingham
- Narrated by: Joanie Brittingham
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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Practicing can be overwhelming, but there are ways to develop practice habits that improve your music learning and help you reach your goals. In this book, you will find easy steps for building your practice routine, from setting intentions to warm-ups to learning music for which there is no recording to evaluating your progress through detailed practice journals.
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You Are the Consumer
- Chart Your Path and Lead the Way in the New Music Business
- By: Kayode Badmus-Wellington
- Narrated by: Kayode Badmus-Wellington
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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Amidst one of the greatest eras of potential the music business has ever seen, the rules are constantly changing. So why follow them? You Are the Consumer challenges you to redefine success on your own terms. Beyond a manual—it’s a manifesto for artists, creatives, and executives ready to break away from convention and build a brand that’s authentic and undeniable.
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The Sixties - Die britische Popmusik im Musikpodcast #100malMusiklegenden
- British Pop 1
- By: Markus Dreesen
- Narrated by: Markus Dreesen
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Eine Sammlung der Episoden aus dem Erfolgspodcast #100malMusiklegenden, die thematisch geordnet wird. In diesem Band geht es um die britische Pop- & Rockszene in den 60er Jahren. Angefangen mit Apache, dem ersten britischen Rockhit der Shadows bis hin zum Ende der 60ies mit den Beatles und ihrer Single Lea it be. Dieses Hörbuch ist gemacht für Musikliebhaber:innen, die noch den ein oder anderen Hintergrund Ihrer Lieblingsmusik wissen möchten.
By: Markus Dreesen
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Get Signed in Sync
- The Music Licensing Agency Handbook for Indie Artists
- By: John Clinebell, Sonnet Simmons
- Narrated by: John Clinebell, Sonnet Simmons, Katie Dwyer, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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In their first book Get Signed In Sync, indie artists John Clinebell and Sonnet Simmons show you how to hire professional agencies to represent your songs for licensing opportunities in ads, TV, film, video games, and other media. Both former VPs at boutique agency Catch The Moon Music, John and Sonnet give you an inside look at how sync agencies sign new talent for pitching. You'll get the practical steps you need to connect and make deals with the pros who are in the best position to land you syncs that can pay well and increase your fan base.
By: John Clinebell, and others