Music audiobooks

Grown-Up Anger

By: Daniel Wolff

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century America—woven together in one epic saga that holds meaning for all working Americans... Read more

I Killed Pink Floyd’s Pig

By: Beau Phillips

Narrated by: Beau Phillips

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

I Killed Pink Floyd’s Pig is an all-access behind-the-scenes VIP tour of when rock was great, courtesy of Beau Phillips, a respected radio programmer and former head of marketing at MTV.Phillips was an insider and occasional accomplice who witnessed the legends of classic rock in their heyday and takes readers inside the dressing rooms, hotel... Read more

They're Playing Our Song

By: Carole Bayer Sager

Narrated by: Carole Bayer Sager

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller from Grammy and Academy Award–winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager shares “a delightful and funny tell-all crammed with famous names and famous songs” (Steve Martin), from her fascinating (and sometimes calamitous) relationships to her collaborations with the greatest composers and musical artists of our time.

For... Read more

Love for Sale

By: David Hajdu

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From revered music critic David Hajdu comes a personal, idiosyncratic history of popular music.David Hajdu begins Love for Sale, his personal history of recorded pop music, in an unexpected place—not with nostalgic reminiscences of the 45s of his youth but with the sheet music era at the end of the nineteenth century. It was not so much the... Read more

Positively 4th Street

By: David Hajdu

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the candid, mesmerizing, and often intimate account of how four young people—Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña—gave rise to a modern-day bohemia and created the enduring sound and style of the 1960s.Even before they became lovers in 1963, Dylan and Joan Baez were seen as the reigning king and queen of folk music.... Read more

Laurel Canyon

By: Michael Walker

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurel Canyon was the neighborhood perched above the clubs and record companies of Sunset Strip where Joni Mitchell, Jim Morrison, Graham Nash, Cass Elliot, Carole King, Don Henley, and Peter Tork, just to name a few, lived and collaborated to make an indelible mark on our music and our culture. Starting with The Byrds in 1965, these musicians... Read more

Things the Grandchildren Should Know

By: Mark Oliver Everett

Narrated by: The Chet

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

How does one young man survive the deaths of his entire family and manage to make something worthwhile of his life? In this poignant and original coming-of-age story, indie rock musician Mark Oliver Everett tells the story of his “ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady” upbringing and how it fed into his creativity. The insecure son... Read more

The Producer

By: Dunstan Prial

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The son of a Vanderbilt heiress, John Hammond listened to jazz records with his parents’ servants, went to Harlem as a teenager, and became a regular in clubs where very few white faces ever appeared. Taking a little family money, Hammond went across racial lines in pre–World War II America and came back with recordings of some of the greatest... Read more

The Wheels on the Bus

By: AudioGO

Narrated by: Susan Boyce & Brian Jones

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A fun collection of all-time favorite songs for everyone to enjoy ... and join in with! The Wheels on the Bus includes the following songs:"The Wheels on the Bus""Baa Baa Black Sheep""If You're Happy and You Know It""Do Your Ears Hang Low?""Skip to My Lou""Hickory Dickory Dock""Itsy Bitsy Spider/Jack and Jill""I'm a Little Teapot""Mary Had a... Read more

Lives of the Musicians

By: Kathleen Krull

Narrated by: John C. Brown & Melissa Hughes

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

It's no secret that Beethoven went deaf, that Mozart had constant money problems, and that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote musicals. But what were these people—and other famous musicians—really like? What did they eat? What did they wear? How did they spend their time? What were they like as children? What were their phobias, obsessions, and bad... Read more

The Wheels on the Bus Holiday Songs

By: various authors

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Join in and sing along with a host of much-loved holiday songs. Read more

Whisperin’ Bill Anderson

By: Bill Anderson

Narrated by: Bill Anderson & Peter Cooper

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Whisperin’ Bill: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music presents a revealing portrait of Bill Anderson, one of the most prolific songwriters in the history of country music.Mega country music hits like “City Lights,” (Ray Price), “Tips of My Fingers,” (Roy Clark, Eddy Arnold, Steve Wariner), “Once a Day,” (Connie Smith), “Saginaw, Michigan,”... Read more

Great Moments from Music Legends

By: SpeechWorks

Narrated by: SpeechWorks

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

As early as 1954, a new style of music—a combination of country and rhythm and blues—was unfolding. To the parents of teenagers, it was worrisome, perhaps even evil. In this collection of original recordings from interviews and press conferences, artists talk about the early years of rock ’n’ roll, their challenges, and their successes.Includes... Read more

The Street Where I Live

By: Alan Jay Lerner

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This warm, loving, and often hilarious personal history of My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Gigi describes the cast of a great era in American musical theater: Moss Heart, Fritz Loewe, Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Cecil Beaton, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Leslie Caron, Vincente Minelli, Arthur Freed, and many others... How these... Read more

Who Is That Man?

By: David Dalton

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Now available as an audiobook and with a new foreword, a kaleidoscopic look at the many faces of Bob Dylan, legendary folk singer-songwriter and winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.

For almost half a century, Bob Dylan has been a primary catalyst in rock's shifting sensibilities. Few American artists are as important, beloved, and... Read more

Queen of Bebop

By: Elaine M. Hayes

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century and a pioneer of women’s and civil rights.Sarah Vaughan, a pivotal figure in the formation of bebop, influenced a broad array of singers who followed in her wake, yet the breadth and depth of... Read more

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

By: Rita Williams-Garcia

Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From beloved Newbery Honor winner and three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia comes a powerful and heartfelt novel about loss, family, and love that will appeal to fans of Jason Reynolds and Kwame Alexander. Clayton feels most alive when he’s with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen—he can’t wait to... Read more

A Perfect Union of Contrary Things

By: Sarah Jensen & Maynard James Keenan

Narrated by: Maynard James Keenan & Devon Sorvari

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The official authorized biography of musician and vintner Maynard James Keenan, the enigmatic vocalist for the bands Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer. Co-author Sarah Jensen's 30-year friendship with Keenan gives her unique insight into his history and career trajectory. The book traces Keenan's journey from his Midwest childhood to his... Read more

Who Was Bob Marley?

By: Katie Ellison

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Get Up, Stand Up! for the king of reggae music!

Bob Marley was a reggae superstar who is considered to be one of the most influential musicians of all time. Born in rural Jamaica, this musician and songwriter began his career with his band, The Wailing Wailers, in 1963. The Wailers went on to spread the gospel of reggae music around the globe.... Read more

Who Is Bruce Springsteen?

By: Stephanie Sabol

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Not only was Bruce Springsteen "Born in the USA," he has risen to become a twenty-time Grammy winner and American icon.

Bruce Springsteen grew up in a blue-collar New Jersey town, where his parents struggled to make ends meet. Bruce didn't fit in at school but found solace in rock and roll and playing guitar. After the breakup of a local band... Read more

America 51

By: Corey Taylor

Narrated by: Corey Taylor

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A skewering of the American underbelly by the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Deadly Sins, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven, and You're Making Me Hate You

The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor begins America 51 with a reflection on what his itinerant youth and frequent worldwide travels with his multiplatinum... Read more

Olive and the Backstage Ghost

By: Michelle Schusterman

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A ghost story with a literary heart for fans of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and The Graveyard Book. Theater kids and ghost-story readers alike will find new meaning in the term stage fright.
 
All great theaters have their ghosts. . . .
 
After Olive Preiss freezes during a theater camp audition, she flees in despair. She finds herself at Maudeville,... Read more

Born to Run

By: Bruce Springsteen

Narrated by: Bruce Springsteen

Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The revelatory and wildly bestselling memoir by legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen: “Glorious…a philosophically rich ramble through a rock ’n roll life…It’s the lyric he was born to write” (USA TODAY, 4 out of 4 stars).

Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life. The result is... Read more

Learn to Sing with Confidence and Freedom

By: Barbara Ann Grant

Narrated by: Barbara Ann Grant

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn to Sing with Confidence and Freedom contains a progressive series of vocal classes devised and lead by Barbara Ann Grant. This series of three classes introduces and teaches an exciting new method of vocal self-discovery. These classes are suitable for the complete beginner and those with experience. They teach you how to speak and sing... Read more