Music audiobooks

Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

Narrated by: Amy Brenneman, Megan Austin Oberle, Kirsten Pot...

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this play by Caryl Churchill, it's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Maggie Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate—she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a... Read more

Good Things Happen Slowly

By: Fred Hersch

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen & Fred Hersch

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Jazz could not contain Fred Hersch.

Hersch’s prodigious talent as a sideman—a pianist who played with the giants of the twentieth century in the autumn of their careers, including Art Farmer and Joe Henderson—blossomed further in the eighties and beyond into a compositional genius that defied the boundaries of bop, sweeping in elements of pop,... Read more

Who is Stevie Wonder?

By: Jim Gigliotti

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover more about Stevie Wonder, the music prodigy whose awards include 25 Grammy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Stevie Wonder is one of the most successful singer-songwriter-musicians of our time. Signing his first record deal when he was only eleven, he had his first No.1 hit when he was thirteen. Since then he has had thirty... Read more

Who Are the Rolling Stones?

By: Dana Meachen Rau

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow the bad boys of rock and roll from their beginnings in London to their unparalleled success around the world.

Starting out over fifty years ago, the Rolling Stones took the music of the blues and blended it into rock and roll to create their own unique sound. Decades later, they are still hard at work, recording and playing live to massive... Read more

More Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas

By: Ace Collins

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Ace Collins has dug deep to uncover the true stories behind your favorite Christmas songs. Explore how these songs came into being, and discover a deeper appreciation for these melodic messages of peace, hope, and joy that celebrate the birth of Jesus. Read more

Finding Moosewood, Finding God

By: Jack Perkins

Narrated by: Jack Perkins

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

For twenty-five years, millions of Americans watched Jack Perkins on NBC News as a correspondent, commentator, and anchorman. People were familiar with his face, his bearing, and his rich, reassuring bass. Yet at the age of fifty-two and at the height of his career, Jack Perkins disappeared from the public eye and moved with his wife, Mary Jo,... Read more

Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas

By: Ace Collins

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Enrich your holiday celebrations as you discover the incredible stories and the inspiration behind the Christmas songs you know and love.Jingle Bells Mary
Did You Know?
The First Noel
O Holy Night
Silver Bells
White ChristmasThe songs that you've sung since you were a child continue to bring Christmas to life each year. Now, you'll learn how your... Read more

Beautiful Mess

By: Diamond Rio

Narrated by: Scott McKain, Marty Roe, Dan Truman, Jimmy Olan...

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a band comprised of six very talented but very different musicians make a difference with their music?What made it possible for Diamond Rio to weather the storms inherent in the fickle world of fame and fortune and go more than two decades without a single lineup change? Any reader in search of transparency and a behind-the-scenes look into... Read more

Walk to Beautiful

By: Mr. Jimmy Wayne

Narrated by: Gabe Wicks

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller! Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover.That’s the real-life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. It’s a miracle that Jimmy survived being hungry and homeless,... Read more

An Outlaw and a Lady

By: Jessi Colter

Narrated by: Devon O'Day

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Renowned songwriter, singer, and wife of Waylon Jennings writes an intimate, enormously entertaining memoir of American music, of life with Waylon and the Outlaws, and of faith lost and found.The daughter of a Pentecostal evangelist and a race-car driver, Jessi Colter played piano and sang in church before leaving Arizona to tour with... Read more

I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound

By: Mike Doughty

Narrated by: Mike Doughty

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A precise yet disorienting look at the exhilaration of music, the process of memory, and the moments when the world becomes new, by the acclaimed songwriter and author of The Book of Drugs

"[Mike Doughty's writing is] astonishingly vital, energized, and natural. . . . acerbic and sometimes lacerating."--RICK MOODY, author of The Long... Read more

Appetite for Self-Destruction

By: Steve Knopper

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world—and the advent of file sharing brought it to its... Read more

Untouchable

By: Randall Sullivan

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 28 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“The first deep-dive narrative by a veteran journalist covering the King of Pop’s convoluted final years on earth . . . [Untouchable] helps cast Jackson in a new light.”—Los Angeles Times“A dishy Michael Jackson biography that makes the exhaustively covered King of Pop fascinating all over again.”—People“A tale of family, fame, lost childhood,... Read more

The Secret Piano

By: Zhu Xiao-Mei

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Zhu Xiao-Mei was born to middle-class parents in post-war China, and her musical proficiency became clear at an early age. Taught to play the piano by her mother, she developed quickly into a prodigy, immersing herself in the work of classical masters like Bach and Brahms. She was just eleven years old when she began a rigorous course of study... Read more

Aretha Franklin

By: Mark Bego

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul documents the beloved singing star’s rocky personal life and internationally acclaimed show business career. An in-depth and frank examination of Aretha, this definitive biography traces her career from her beginnings as a twelve-year-old member of a church choir in the early 1950s, recording her first album at... Read more

I Want My MTV

By: Rob Tannenbaum & Craig Marks

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 20 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Named One of the Best Books of 2011 by NPR – Spin - USA Today – CNBC - Pitchfork - The Onion - The Atlantic - The Huffington Post – VEVO - The Boston Globe - The San Francisco ChronicleFor fans of VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First WaveRemember the first time you saw Michael Jackson dance with zombies in "Thriller"? Diamond Dave karate... Read more

The Baroness

By: Hannah Rothschild

Narrated by: Hannah Rothschild

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father’s favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild family had, in only five generations, risen from the ghetto in Frankfurt to stately homes in England. As a child, Nica took her daily walks, dressed in... Read more

When They Were Boys

By: Larry Kane

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the real story of the Beatles’ harrowing rise to fame: focusing on that 7-year stretch from the time the boys met as teenagers in the 50’s to early 1964, when the Fab Four prepared to invade America. From the boys’ humble beginnings in Liverpool, to the cellars of Hamburg, When They Were Boys includes stories never before told, including... Read more

We Will Survive

By: Gloria Gaynor & Sue Carswell

Narrated by: Gloria Gaynor

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

2015 Grammy nominee for Best Spoken-Word Album (in audio formats)Gloria Gaynor’s #1 hit single “I Will Survive” debuted in 1978 to overwhelming success. Shortly thereafter, the single went double platinum and over three decades later still strikes a chord among men and women everywhere.Over the years, the disco legend has received thousands of... Read more

The Art of Youth

By: Nicholas Delbanco

Narrated by: Jeff Crawford

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Art of Youth is a moving inquiry into the nature of artistic prodigies who did their major work at an early age. Renowned novelist Nicholas Delbanco gives us a triptych of indelible portraits: the American writer Stephen Crane (immortalized by The Red Badge of Courage), the British artist Dora Carrington (called “the most neglected serious... Read more

Bowie

By: Wendy Leigh

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the man behind the myth in this new biography of one of the most pioneering and influential performers of our time—David Bowie.David Bowie—the iconic superstar of rock, fashion, art, design, and the quintessential sexual liberator—is a living legend. However, for the past five decades, he has managed to retain his Hollywood star... Read more

Symphony for the City of the Dead

By: M. T. Anderson

Narrated by: M. T. Anderson

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistNational Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to... Read more

Change of Seasons

By: John Oates

Narrated by: Chris Epting & John Oates

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock ‘n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B. Meeting and teaming up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they developed a style of music that was uniquely their own but never abandoned their roots. John uncovers the grit and... Read more

Emotional Rescue

By: Ben Greenman

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

What songs have made up your life’s soundtrack? Which have captured your every mood and deepest sentiments? Pop music, like no other form of entertainment or art, is capable of articulating our feelings, desires, joy, and pain. In a few soul-grabbing minutes, artists from every genre—from Little Richard to Lou Reed, Willie Nelson to Wu-Tang... Read more