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Following his bestselling memoir, It's a Long Story, Willie Nelson now delivers his most intimate thoughts and stories in Willie Nelson's Letters to America. From his opening letter "Dear America" to his "Dear Willie" epilogue, Willie digs deep into his heart and soul--and his music catalog--to lift us up in difficult times, and to remind us of the endless promise and continuous obligations of all Americans--to themselves, to one another, and to their...
3) Rememberings
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"From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, struggles with illness, and of the enduring power of song"--
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In the 1930s and 40s, a father-and-son team of folklorists hit the highways, byways and rural routes of the United States, traveling in a battered pickup truck laden with primitive recording equipment. John A. Lomax and his son, Alan, covered thousands of miles, stopping off at tarpaper shacks, juke joints, prison yards, and other out-of-the-way places to listen to native singers and to record them for the Library of Congress archives. The Lomaxes...
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When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she'd first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Malka completed their most recent recorded interview, in 2012, that Malka discovered the heart of their discussions: the...
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"Moonlight: Music On A Mountain" is a compendium of over three hundred weekly newsletters emailed to the fans and supporters of an original acoustic music venue in Birmingham Alabama. Part diary, part blog, and part encyclopedia, this collection presents the proprietor's voice, views, and visions regarding a unique miniature concert hall, creating a narrative of its uncertain yet glorious persistence, in a time of radical changes for the makers of...
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Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers, and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales, and reminiscences.
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This original collection presents more than 20 popular folk songs that have been specially arranged for beginning guitarists. The timeless melodies are supplemented with a helpful tutorial on guitar basics that offers tips on identifying the strings, tuning, and basic chord patterns and strums. These arrangements of Skip to My Lou, He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, Oh! Susanna, Down in the Valley, Barbara Allen, and other tunes include advice...
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Here is a choice selection of 25 of the most famous rags, several of which cannot be found elsewhere. Written during ragtime's golden age from 1904 to 1910, these melodies include three of Scott Joplin's finest works - Searchlight Rag, Rose Leaf Rag, and Fig Leaf Rag - plus songs by Tin Pan Alley's hottest composers of the day: George Botsford, Harry Armstrong, and Egbert Van Alstyne. Reprinted from the original editions, the songs in this value-packed...
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The only defenders of Serbian art and culture in these difficult centuries were the peasants who played the Gusle, a one-stringed instrument. As their punishment for playing a musical instrument many of these musicians were blinded by their oppressors resulting in thousands of such punishments. Being denied the right to music or dance, the Serbs invented a silent kolo (dance) in which the syncopation of the pounding feet became a sort of musical accompaniment...
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Clawhammer ukulele instructional book by Aaron Keim. 18 songs in tablature format with several pages of instruction, tips and techniques (including traditional songs and original songs by Aaron). Included within some songs are links to YouTube videos for demonstration purposes! (Very helpful for those of you who need to see it and hear it in order to practice). Clawhammer is a banjo style that also works on the ukulele. It is from the Appalachian...
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From the rollicking welcome of "A Festive Song" to the defiant battle cry of "Watchword of Labor," Songs of Freedom accomplishes the difficult task of making contemporary music out of old revolutionary songs. Far from the archival preservation of embalmed corpses, the inspired performance of a rocking band turns the timeless lyrics of James Connolly into timely manifestos for today's young rebels. As Connolly himself repeatedly urged, nothing can...
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The memoir by Mickey White is the account of the author's experience as a professional guitar player/ singer-songwriter during the 1970s and 1980s. Although never a star or celebrity, he had professional and personal interactions with a number of notable Texas-based songwriters, most significantly, the legendary songwriter Townes Van Zandt. The up-close and personal account of Van Zandt provides a unique and compelling perspective from a person who...
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"For my parents and grandparents, Jewish identity, in religion, culture and language, was a given. Not so for me. I'm not religious, not a Zionist, so in what consists my Jewishness? Is a love of chopped liver and a belief that chicken soup cures all ills enough? And, does it matter? This is the story of my search for answers. It is an argument with myself, with song lyrics to embellish the argument."
Like so many of those others in Britain of Jewish...
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Part travelogue, part cultural criticism, part music appreciation, It Still Moves does for today's avant folk scene what Greil Marcus did for Dylan and The Basement Tapes. Amanda Petrusich outlines the sounds of the new, weird America-honoring the rich tradition of gospel, bluegrass, country, folk, and rock that feeds it, while simultaneously exploring the American character as personified in all of these genres historically. Through interviews, road...
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Bob Dylan's New York is a guidebook and a history of New York's key role through Dylan's lengthy career. It places Dylan's early career in the storied history of Greenwich Village, a hotbed of new developments in the arts. A contemporary of Dylan's, author Dick Weissman walked the same streets, played music in the same venues, and witnessed the growth of the folk music revival from before Dylan became popular to after the height of his impact on the...
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El guitarrón chileno en el canto a lo poeta es un método prácticoteórico que aborda, paso a paso, el desarrollo de la técnica del guitarrón chileno, nuestro instrumento patrimonial, para su interpretación en el género tradicional en el que se desenvuelve, el canto a lo poeta, el más antiguo propiamente chileno y que aún se mantiene vigente a través de la oralidad. Mediante distintos ejercicios y transcripciones a partituras de diferentes...
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Get the Summary of Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Jeff Tweedy's "World Within a Song" is a memoir that traces his musical influences and experiences, beginning with the first guitar riff he learned from Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water." He shares anecdotes from his childhood, such as his father's influence on his musical taste and a humorous misunderstanding about his cousin...
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El folklore argentino es millonario, se puede decir, en los diferentes ritmos que aglutina. Encontraremos vidalas, zambas, cuecas, chayas, malambos, cifras, estilos, triunfos, chamamés, rasguidos dobles, bailecitos, gatos, chacareras, huaynos o escondidos, por citar los más conocidos, de una amplia lista, de estos ritmos que configuran el cancionero de su música tradicional autóctona.
Tras varios lustros de investigación sobre este cancionero,...
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En esta nueva edición de la Guía del flamenco se expone el origen, nacimiento y desarrollo del flamenco y se analizan los periodos fundamentales de su evolución, así como los enclaves geográficos más significativos. También se analizan las características básicas del cante, el baile y el toque. Se aporta a su vez, un glosario de términos específicos al tiempo que se incluye una relación, por orden alfabético, de casi 600 fichas de artistas...
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