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We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.95Paul Shaffer?born and bred music junkie and longtime leader of David Letterman?s Late Show band?opens up in this candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir. From playing seedy strip joints in Toronto, to being the first musical director of Saturday Night Live and helping to form the Blues Brothers, to being onstage every night with... more...
Black Postcards
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 16.00A bewitching memoir about the lures, torments, and rewards of making and performing music in the indie rock world Dean Wareham's seminal bands Galaxie 500 and Luna have long been adored by a devoted cult following and extolled by rock critics. Now he brings us the blunt, heartbreaking, and wickedly charismatic account of his personal journey through... more...
The Facts of Life
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00If you had to give America a voice, it?s been said more than once, that voice would be Willie Nelson?s. For more than fifty years, he?s taken the stuff of his life-the good and the bad-and made from it a body of work that has become a permanent part of our musical heritage and kept us company through the good and the bad of our own lives. Long before... more...
Where Dead Voices Gather
Little, Brown and Company 2009; US$ 10.99A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the center of this riveting book--a narrative that is part mystery, part biography, part meditation on the meaning and power of music. more...
Mr. S
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99" Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra , by former valet-aide George Jacobs with an oh-so-able assist by William Stadiem, has at least five quotable and shocking remarks about the famous on every page. The fifteen years Jacobs toiled for Frank produces a classic of its genre -- a gold-star gossip-lover's dream.... "The rest is showbiz history as it... more...
Song for my Fathers
Other Press 2010; US$ 14.95Song for My Fathers is the story of a young white boy driven by a consuming passion to learn the music and ways of a group of aging black jazzmen in the twilight years of the segregation era. Contemporaries of Louis Armstrong, most of them had played in local obscurity until Preservation Hall launched a nationwide revival of interest in traditional... more...
Anvil!
MTV Books 2009; US$ 15.00In the early seventies, when Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath ruled the world, Steve ?Lips? Kudlow and Robb Reiner, two young Jewish boys from the northern suburbs of Toronto, vowed to rock together forever. A decade later, their band Anvil released one of the heaviest records in music history, Metal on Metal, which influenced a whole musical generation,... more...
The Tao of Wu
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 15.00The RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, imparts the lessons he's learned on his journey from the Staten Island projects to international superstardom. A devout student of knowledge in every form in which he's found it, he distills here the wisdom he's acquired into seven "pillars," each based on a formative event in his life-from the moment he first... more...
Man of Constant Sorrow
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 18.00A legend looks back on his six decades in music. Ralph Stanley was born in 1927 in a corner of Virginia known as Big Spraddle Creek, a place where music echoed from the ridge tops, was belted out by workers in the fields, and resonated in the one-room country church where Ralph first found his voice. For his eleventh birthday, Ralph was given... more...
The Long Trail
Random House of Canada 2010; US$ 18.50A Canadian icon on his longstanding love of the West and his life in "one of the last true cowboy countries on either side of the border." "I live on a ranch about six miles east of the town of Longview and the old Cowboy Trail in the foothills of the Rockies. On a perfect day, like today, I can't imagine being anywhere else in the world. Of course,... more...









