Music audiobooks

In It for the Long Run

By: Jim Rooney

Narrated by: Jim Rooney

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the Hank Williams and Leadbelly recordings he heard as a teenager growing up outside of Boston, Jim Rooney began a musical journey that intersected with some of the biggest names in American music, including Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Bill Monroe, Muddy Waters, and Alison Krauss. In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey is Rooney’s... Read more

BeatlesTalk

By: SpeechWorks

Narrated by: SpeechWorks

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

BeatlesTalk traces the historic odyssey of the Fab Four, beginning in England, 1963 with the conquest of their own country, leading to a successful invasion of America. Topics include their haircuts and how they named the group, comments on their pending trips to America, President Johnson, songwriting, and their reaction to fame and money. This... Read more

We Bombed in New London

By: Brian Gari

Narrated by: Brian Gari

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

We Bombed in New London tells the true story of one man’s tenacious plight to get his musical mounted. From its romantic inception to its eventual demise and then the score’s resurrection in cabarets and recordings, this book takes you on a journey through the ups and downs of the theatrical world with all its excitement, disappointment,... Read more

The Van Cliburn Story

By: Howard Reich

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When a lanky, unpretentious, incredibly gifted, twenty-three-year-old Texan took Moscow by musical storm in 1958, it launched a sensational career that began at the age of thirteen and was to span over four decades. At the height of the Cold War, this friendly, open-hearted pianist enchanted the hearts of Americans and Russians alike with... Read more

All the Way

By: Michael Freedland

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Frank Sinatra has been a legend in many people’s lifetimes. In the course of his long career of successes, failures, and even greater comeback triumphs, he has remained one of the most enduring performers in twentieth-century show business history. Michael Freedland’s biography gives a full portrait of this unorthodox singer’s life, from his... Read more

Every Little Step

By: Bobby Brown & Nick Chiles

Narrated by: Bobby Brown, Lisa Renee Pitts & T. J. Storm

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In Every Little Step, Brown will for the first time tell the full story of his life and set the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston.Bobby Brown has been one of the most compelling American artists of the past thirty years, a magnetic and talented figure who successfully crossed over many musical genres,... Read more

Dreaming the Beatles

By: Rob Sheffield

Narrated by: Rob Sheffield

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them.Dreaming the Beatles is not another... Read more

Shock and Awe

By: Simon Reynolds

Narrated by: Nicholas Camm

Length: 23 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania—“the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)—comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in... Read more

Delta Lady

By: Rita Coolidge & Michael Walker

Narrated by: Rita Coolidge

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter bares her heart and soul in this intimate memoir, a story of music, stardom, love, family, heritage, and resilience.She inspired songs—Leon Russell wrote “A Song for You” and “Delta Lady” for her, Stephen Stills wrote “Cherokee.” She co-wrote songs—“Superstar” and the piano coda to “Layla,”... Read more

Just Getting Started

By: Tony Bennett & Scott Simon

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business, the best exponent of a song. He excites me when I watch him. . . . He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.” — Frank Sinatra“As breezy and meaningful as one of his trademark songs as readers learn about the man by the... Read more

My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire

By: Maurice White & Herb Powell

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The late Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in this sincere memoir that captures the heart and soul of an artist whose groundbreaking sound continues to influence music today. With a foreword by David Foster.With its dynamic horns, contrasting... Read more

Set the Boy Free

By: Johnny Marr

Narrated by: Johnny Marr

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The Smiths.An artist who helped define a period in popular culture, Johnny Marr tells his story in a memoir as vivid and arresting as his music. The Smiths, the band with the signature sound he cofounded, remains one of the most beloved bands ever, and... Read more

They Call Me Supermensch

By: Shep Gordon

Narrated by: Shep Gordon

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-popping peek into entertainment industry from the magnetic force who has worked with an impeccable roster of stars throughout his storied career.In the course of his legendary career as a manager, agent, and producer, Shep Gordon has worked with, and befriended, some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, from Alice Cooper to... Read more

On Bowie

By: Rob Sheffield

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, a thoughtful and loving meditation on the life of the late David Bowie that explores his creative legacy and the enduring and mutual connection he enjoyed with his fansInnovative. Pioneering. Brave. Until his death in January 2016, David Bowie created art that not only pushed... Read more

Adrenalized

By: Phil Collen

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A revelatory, redemptive, and “wild...juicy” (Rolling Stone) memoir from the lead guitarist of the legendary hard rock band Def Leppard—the first ever written by one of its members—chronicling the band’s extraordinary rise to superstardom and how they maintained it for three decades.

Meet Phil Collen. You may know him as the lead guitarist in Def... Read more

Not Dead Yet

By: Phil Collins

Narrated by: Phil Collins

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Phil Collins pulls no punches—about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that’s inspired his music.

In his much-awaited memoir, Not Dead Yet, he tells the story of his epic career, with an auspicious debut at age 11 in a crowd shot from the Beatles’ legendary film A Hard Day’s Night. A drummer since almost before he could walk,... Read more

Porcelain

By: Moby

Narrated by: Moby

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor, and unlikely success out of the NYC club scene of the late '80s and '90s.

There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician... Read more

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank

By: Thad Carhart

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Pairs neighborhood that seemed to want to hide rather than advertise its wares. Like Alice in Wonderland, he found his attempts to gain entry rebuffed at every turn. An accidental introduction finally opened the... Read more

Tradition!

By: Barbara Isenberg

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Since it first opened on Broadway in September, 1964, Fiddler on the Roof has constantly been onstage somewhere, including five Broadway revivals, four productions on London's West End and thousands of schools, army bases and countries from Argentina to Japan. Barbara Isenberg interviewed the men and women behind the original production, the... Read more

American Buffalo

By: David Mamet

Narrated by: Rich Hutchman, Josh Stamberg & Maurice Williams

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

David Mamet’s gift for storytelling and forging poetry from both the plain-spoken and profane turns an ill-conceived scheme to steal a rare coin into a triumph of dramatic art. In a junk shop, three men of different generations plan their heist. But their fates, like the nickel’s worn image of the beleaguered buffalo, may have been sealed long... Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Emily Bergl, Jane Carr, Alexis Jacknow, Cerris ...

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Orphaned Jane journeys from a harsh childhood to become the loving caregiver of a child at the mysterious manor of Mr. Rochester. Jane is drawn to her enigmatic employer, but as dark secrets emerge, she must choose between her newfound security and the uncertainty of a life lived for oneself.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
... Read more

Good Vibrations

By: Mike Love & James S. Hirsch

Narrated by: Mike Love

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times Bestseller

Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history -- timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of "Good Vibrations."

As a founding member of The Beach Boys, Mike Love has spent an... Read more

Party of One

By: Dave Holmes

Narrated by: Dave Holmes

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From former MTV VJ Dave Holmes, the hilarious memoir of a perpetual outsider fumbling towards self-acceptance, with the music of the '80s, '90s, and today as his soundtrack
 
Dave Holmes has spent his life on the periphery, nose pressed hopefully against the glass, wanting just one thing: to get inside. Growing up, he was the artsy son in the... Read more

Play It Loud

By: Brad Tolinski & Alan di Perna

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiration for the Play It Loud exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Every guitar player will want to read this book twice. And even the casual music fan will find a thrilling narrative that weaves together cultural history, musical history, race, politics, business case studies, advertising, and technological discovery." —Daniel... Read more