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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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3.95 avg rating — 73,337 ratings
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Just Kids
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4.21 avg rating — 340,761 ratings
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The Beatles: The Biography
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4.09 avg rating — 13,318 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
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3.89 avg rating — 67,129 ratings
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Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South
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3.96 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass
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4.05 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles
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4.29 avg rating — 6,464 ratings
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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
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3.92 avg rating — 3,621 ratings
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A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
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3.85 avg rating — 4,114 ratings
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Old-Time Music and Dance: Community and Folk Revival
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970
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4.13 avg rating — 2,283 ratings
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I Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny
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3.52 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
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3.98 avg rating — 6,548 ratings
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Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
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4.28 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
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3.87 avg rating — 41,757 ratings
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It's More Than the Music: Life Lessons on Friends, Faith, and What Matters Most
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4.40 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
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3.83 avg rating — 1,134 ratings
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
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4.02 avg rating — 3,549 ratings
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How To Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons
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3.98 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Eva Cassidy: Songbird: Her Story by Those Who Knew Her
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4.18 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Great Masters: Brahms- His Life and Music
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4.53 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Get a Shot of Rhythm and Blues: The Arthur Alexander Story
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4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Beethoven: The Universal Composer
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4.02 avg rating — 1,935 ratings
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Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
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3.95 avg rating — 2,346 ratings
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Geschichte einer Stradivari
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-the Early Years, 1903-1940
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4.07 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
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3.85 avg rating — 17,480 ratings
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Aretha Franklin: The Queen Of Soul
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3.24 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Die Zauberflöte: Oper von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
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4.34 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll
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4.26 avg rating — 104 ratings
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John Coltrane's Giant Steps
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3.67 avg rating — 191 ratings
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The Prodigal Comes Home: My Story of Failure and God's Story of Redemption
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4.37 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Mel Bay Everything You Wanted to Know About Clawhammer Banjo: A Complete Tutor for the Intermediate and Advanced Player
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
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4.04 avg rating — 797 ratings
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Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Mysterious Thelonious
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3.78 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Temperament: The Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle
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3.88 avg rating — 595 ratings
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The Music of Bill Monroe
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4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Bill Monroe Reader (Music in American Life series (MAL))
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3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Acoustic Stories: Playing Bass With Peter, Paul & Mary, Jerry Garcia and Bill Monroe and Eighteen Other Unamplified Tales
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music / La Historia de Lydia Mendoza: Norteño Tejano Legaciesincludes audio CD
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Labor's Troubadour
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The Life, Work and Music of the American Folk Artist Doc Watson
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Mel Bay Danse ce soir : Fiddle and Accordion Music of Quebec
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Learn to Play Cajun Accordion: Starting Out
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Mighty Accordion: The Complete Guide to Mastering Left Hand Bass/Cord Patterns
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Accordion Dreams: A Journey into Cajun and Creole Music
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Accordions, Fiddles, Two Step & Swing: A Cajun Music Reader
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz
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4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Duck Ellington Swings Through the Zoo: Baby Loves Jazz
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4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s
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4.06 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Southwest Shuffle
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Swingin' Jazz Violin
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We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-Biz Saga
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3.56 avg rating — 784 ratings
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Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing
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3.84 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend
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4.02 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz
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4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
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4.08 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
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3.64 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger
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3.91 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Keys to the Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia
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3.87 avg rating — 38 ratings
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A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks
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3.74 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973
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3.93 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Younger Than That Now: The Collected Interviews with Bob Dylan
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3.93 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Dylan's Visions of Sin
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3.69 avg rating — 549 ratings
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Dylan: Visions, Portraits, and Back Pages
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4.35 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966
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4.09 avg rating — 963 ratings
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Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
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4.01 avg rating — 5,005 ratings
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The Essential Interviews
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4.13 avg rating — 1,518 ratings
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Young Bob: John Cohen's Early Photographs of Bob Dylan
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4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Greetings from E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
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4.19 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music ... From Hank Snow to The Band
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3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Ashley Hutchings: The Guv'nor and the Rise of Folk Rock--Fairport Convention, Steeley Span and the Albion Band
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4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Banjo Camp!: Learning, Picking & Jamming With Bluegrass and Old-time Greats
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2.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Mel Bay Old Time Fiddling Across America Book/CD Set
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Banjo of Ralph Stanley: From Old-Time to Bluegrass
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Old-Time Fiddle for the Complete Ignoramus (Book & Online Audio)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz
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3.74 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine (American Made Music Series)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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World’s Hottest Fiddlers
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Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
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4.09 avg rating — 8,355 ratings
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The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 12)
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3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006
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3.56 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002
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3.69 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings
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4.12 avg rating — 235 ratings
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A Whore Just Like The Rest: The Music Writings Of Richard Meltzer
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3.86 avg rating — 228 ratings
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The Best of No Depression: Writing about American Music (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series)
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3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Blues & Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer
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4.14 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000
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3.47 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Rural Roots of Bluegrass: Songs, Stories & History
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4.20 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Piece by Piece
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3.91 avg rating — 2,172 ratings
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Tori Amos: Lyrics
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4.53 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Sing-Along Stories 3: Mary Had a Little Lamb, Yankee Doodle, Bill Grogan's Goat
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Drink With Shane MacGowan
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3.86 avg rating — 1,220 ratings
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Story Behind the Song: The Exclusive Personal Stories Behind Your Favorite Songs
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3.52 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Listen to the Stories: On Jazz and Country Music
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3.94 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead
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4.17 avg rating — 3,662 ratings
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A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
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4.25 avg rating — 2,937 ratings
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