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First book by music industry veteran Cary Baker traces development of blues, doo-wop, folk and even jazz and classical music on the streets. Features interviews with Lucinda Williams, Billy Bragg, Violent Femmes, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Mary Lou Lord, Peter Case, Poi Dog Pondering, Madeleine Peyroux, Old Crow Medicine Show, Mojo Nixon, Satan & Adam, and more, plus eyewitnesses of busking through two centuries.

Joel Selvin, author of 20 books on music and a veteran music journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle, supplies the back stories to more than 200 pages of Chris Strachwitz’s photographs that jump off the pages.

If Robert Johnson had lived long enough to play Carnegie Hall, renowned musicologist Scott Ainslie thinks we would have had rock and roll 10 years earlier than we did.

His books include Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories, Southern Soul-Blues, Blues Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Chicago, and Always the Queen: The Denise LaSalle Story.

The Byrds: 1964-1967, a new large-format 400-page book is out now via BMG. Curated by the band’s three surviving founding…

‘Whose Blues?’ empathetically confronts racial issues within the contemporary blues music community and blues music of the past. 

McLean has referred to the song as “an indescribable photograph of America that I tried to capture in words and music.” He is currently on a 50th Anniversary American World Pie World Tour that has him booked into 67 venues, and he’s also just released a children’s book called ‘American Pie: A Fable.’

Wightman brings to his memoir a lawyer’s attention to detail and a promoter’s understanding of the often-rare combination of artists with both talent and a viable fan base for that talent

Along with his partners Ken Irwin and Marian Leighton, Bill Nowlin built the world’s most prolific and unique indie record label

Updated and revised 25th anniversary edition of Robert Gordon’s celebrated Memphis music history features new foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib, more than 80 new photographs, updated text, new chapters, and more!