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Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
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4.08 avg rating — 1,060 ratings
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Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley
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4.09 avg rating — 3,092 ratings
"Great story of the great Bob Marley."
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The Nearest Far Away Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience
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3.92 avg rating — 274 ratings
"Love the band, love this book."
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Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend
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4.02 avg rating — 326 ratings
"Current reading... always listening."
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Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time
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3.90 avg rating — 187 ratings
"Amazing life story."
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Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country
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4.28 avg rating — 863 ratings
"From the great set of TRADING CARDS!"
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Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-the Early Years, 1903-1940
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4.07 avg rating — 423 ratings
"Amazing early Bing: wish I had the tunes at hand, too."
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John Lennon: The Life
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4.04 avg rating — 12,661 ratings
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Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
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3.89 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
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3.84 avg rating — 369 ratings
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John Coltrane: His Life and Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
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4.16 avg rating — 614 ratings
"Love this book."
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Woody Guthrie
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4.34 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
"This book changed my thinking."
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How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger
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4.17 avg rating — 190 ratings
"Reading it in 1982, I kept after the banjo."
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The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger
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3.91 avg rating — 288 ratings
"Pete keeps at it!"
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Music from the True Vine: Mike Seeger's Life & Musical Journey
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3.89 avg rating — 28 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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Blind but Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson
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3.76 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream
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3.59 avg rating — 11,450 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 — 291 ratings
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Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times
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4.12 avg rating — 337 ratings
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And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir
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3.94 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation
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3.75 avg rating — 6,319 ratings
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A Natural Woman: A Memoir
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3.78 avg rating — 5,463 ratings
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Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro
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4.20 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music
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3.54 avg rating — 1,147 ratings
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Sanity and Grace: A Journey of Suicide, Survival, and Strength
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3.98 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Odetta: The Queen of Folk
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3.97 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost
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3.98 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Charley Patton
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3.94 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Searching for Robert Johnson
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3.88 avg rating — 752 ratings
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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
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4.02 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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Midnight Riders: The Story of the Allman Brothers Band
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3.99 avg rating — 334 ratings
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My Cross to Bear
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3.89 avg rating — 6,209 ratings
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Otis! The Otis Redding Story
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3.85 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Stars Of Country Music
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Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers
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4.23 avg rating — 1,340 ratings
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In Close Harmony: The Story of the Louvin Brothers (American Made Music Series)
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3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Truth Is Stranger Than Publicity
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4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Devil's Box
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4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Life And Legend Of Leadbelly
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4.06 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour
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4.04 avg rating — 185 ratings
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A Pirate Looks at Fifty
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3.87 avg rating — 4,741 ratings
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Jimmy Buffett: The Man from Margaritaville Revealed
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3.29 avg rating — 45 ratings
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A Satisfied Mind: The Country Music Life of Porter Wagoner
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3.57 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Stevie Ray Vaughan : Caught in the Crossfire
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4.14 avg rating — 710 ratings
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Willie Nelson: An Epic Life
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3.99 avg rating — 498 ratings
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Selena: Como la flor
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4.12 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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3.88 avg rating — 106,923 ratings
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Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo | Complete Banjo Method Songbook for Beginners and Teachers | 40+ Bluegrass Songs with Tablature, Audio, and Video Lessons | Revised and Enhanced Edition
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4.35 avg rating — 123 ratings
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We'll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers (The "Wade in the Water" Series)
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life And Music Of Melvin Wine
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"Our Melvin."
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San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills
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4.24 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler
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4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Makers of the Sacred Harp (Music in American Life) (Volume 31)
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3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music
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4.30 avg rating — 1,177 ratings
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The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song
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3.86 avg rating — 616 ratings
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The Jimmy Driftwood Story: A Biography with Songs, Photos and Tributes
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Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter
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3.99 avg rating — 6,117 ratings
"Amazing."
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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 — 3,574 ratings
"Amazing."
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Cash
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4.01 avg rating — 25,361 ratings
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Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
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4.37 avg rating — 4,713 ratings
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Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
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4.22 avg rating — 827 ratings
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Bluegrass: A History
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4.15 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, And Redemption Of Jelly Roll Morton
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4.21 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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4.28 avg rating — 1,736 ratings
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The Man That Got Away: The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen
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4.47 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
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3.99 avg rating — 1,105 ratings
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Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story
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4.15 avg rating — 1,912 ratings
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Across the Great Divide: The Band and America
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4.15 avg rating — 862 ratings
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Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams
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3.94 avg rating — 1,120 ratings
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Life Is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett
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3.78 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Buck 'Em!: The Autobiography of Buck Owens
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4.33 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Richard Thompson: The Biography
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3.60 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly
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4.25 avg rating — 371 ratings
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What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography
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3.74 avg rating — 921 ratings
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A LIFE IN RAGTIME
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4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny
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4.27 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Captain Beefheart: The Biography
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4.05 avg rating — 401 ratings
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Zappa: A Biography
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3.82 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
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Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz
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3.81 avg rating — 183 ratings
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One Generation at a Time: Biography of a Cajun and Creole Music Festival
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Hank Williams: The Biography
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4.08 avg rating — 848 ratings
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Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
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4.31 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
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3.76 avg rating — 3,382 ratings
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Bessie
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Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
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4.17 avg rating — 10,107 ratings
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Don Gibson : a legend in his own time : the bio/discography
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Earl Scruggs: Banjo Icon
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4.50 avg rating — 24 ratings
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John Duffey's Bluegrass Life: Featuring the Country Gentlemen, Seldom Scene, and Washington, D.C.
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4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Notes from the Velvet Underground: The Life of Lou Reed
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3.67 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Rabbit's Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges
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3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Rocket Man: The Life of Elton John
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3.69 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Robert Fripp: From King Crimson To Guitar Craft
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3.73 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
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3.83 avg rating — 519 ratings
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Brian Eno: His Music And The Vertical Color Of Sound
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3.97 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe
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4.03 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues
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4.41 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Janis: Her Life and Music
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4.14 avg rating — 2,839 ratings
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Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan
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4.29 avg rating — 1,314 ratings
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