Music audiobooks

Graphic Universe Collection

By: various authors

Narrated by: Book Buddy Digital Media

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Graphic Universe publishes fiction and nonfiction novels for beginning readers, middle-grade readers, and young adults. The artists and writers of Graphic Universe are explorers, chasing down the many possibilities the comics form has to offer.Full contents:Felix and CalciteThe Land of the Trolls by Artur LaperlaMedical BreakthroughsIncubators... Read more

Gig for Life

By: Georges Elchakieh

Narrated by: Jay Aaseng

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Less than one percent of all musicians reach megastar-level fame.
For the rest of us, a successful music career involves playing in bars, clubs, hotels, corporate gigs, cruise ships, and wedding venues. That career can be just as fulfilling and meaningful—if you’re willing to work on the fundamentals.
Gig for Life will teach you those... Read more

Feel My Big Guitar

By: Judson L. Jeffries, Shannon M. Cochran & Molly ...

Narrated by: Vince Cook

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Contributions by Ignatius Calabria, H. Zahra Caldwell, Brian Jude de Lima, Sabatino DiBernardo, William Fulton, Antonio Garfias, Judson L. Jeffries, Tony Kiene, Molly Reinhoudt, Fred Shaheen, and Karen Turman With his signature blend of genres and lyrics that touch on myriad societal issues, the artist Prince has challenged and captivated the... Read more

CBC Radio's 'Mountaintop Music'

By: Michael O'Halloran

Narrated by: David Bacon & Tara Yelin

Length: 21 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Best Seller from the days of CBC Radio’s award-winning program, "Mountaintop Music: 25 Canadian Artists, their favourite Music and Books” brings together reminiscences from such celebrities as Jann Arden, Karen Main, Timothy Findley, Rita MacNeil, and many others. Just close your eyes, listen to this audiobook, and be transported. Read more

Motorcycles, Minotaurs, & Banjos

By: Steven Sherrill

Narrated by: Steven Sherrill

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is about twenty-one days, and sixty years. A motorcycle ride down the spine of Appalachia, with a little banjo  and big myth for company, to play and sing at the graves of dead banjo heroes. About making a life about making work. This book is about outsiders. Interlopers. Class migrants. Death. Awakening. Creative Process. Growth... Read more

Fröhliche Lieder für Spiel und Spaß

By: Bettina Göschl, Ulrich Maske, Matthias Meyer-Gö...

Narrated by: Inga Reuters

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Hüpfen, zappeln, tanzen: Eine bunte Auswahl der schönsten Lieder für kleine Tier- und Musikfreunde. Damit werden die Kleinen sofort zum Mitmachen animiert. Viele tierische Songs begleiten jeden Tag das Spielen und lassen ganz nebenbei die Freude an Bewegung entdecken. Fröhlich interpretiert von vielen Kindern sowie Bettina Göschl, Robert... Read more

Musical ABC

By: Natalie Briscoe

Narrated by: Patrick Jean-Jacques

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From an alligator with an accordion to a zebra with a zumari, this adorably illustrated picture book gives children a delightful introduction to letters, animal names, and instruments from around the world. Strum, clap, and tap your way through the whimsical, musical animal alphabet to make story time extra special! Read more

T-DOLA 18

By: Jason Yonai

Narrated by: KazeLoon

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

T-DOLA 18 by Jason Yonai and narrated by KazeLoon for K.D Lean Inc. Publishing. Read more

Life in Reverse

By: Ron Westray

Narrated by: Ron Westray

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Starting from present and going back 30 years to 1990, the book about African-American jazz musician Ron Westray’s life journey is written in reverse. The writing is rigorous—flanked by hip-hop, Southern, and ebonic dialects—and includes jazz lingo, texting-shorthand and use of emojis.  Read more

All the Leaves Are Brown

By: Scott G. Shea

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Few songs have captured the contradictions and ambiguities of the 1960s as memorably as "California Dreamin'," the iconic folk music single that catapulted the Mamas & the Papas into rock and roll history. In All the Leaves Are Brown, author Scott Shea details how John Phillips, Denny Doherty, Michelle Phillips, and "Mama Cass" Elliot became... Read more

Parachute Women

By: Elizabeth Winder

Narrated by: Angelina Rocca

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the true story of the four women who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help shape and curate the image of The Rolling Stones—perfect for fans of Girls Like Us. The Rolling Stones have long been considered one of the greatest rock-and-roll bands of all time. At the forefront of the British Invasion and heading up the counterculture... Read more

This Must Be the Place

By: Jesse Rifkin

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community and the highs and lows of New York City itself shaped the city’s music scenes from folk to house music.

Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and you’ll likely pass some of the most significant clubs in American music history. But you won’t know... Read more

Too Hot

By: George Brown

Narrated by: Midnite Michael

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up around music, young George was inspired to piece together a makeshift drum set and teach himself to play as he practiced in the dark, dank basement of his rundown New Jersey townhouse.



He soon joined forces with his friends to form a group called the Jazziacs, which then evolved into Kool & The Gang, a band that began charting hits... Read more

Who Was Frank Sinatra?

By: Ellen Labrecque & Who HQ

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn about the showstopping life of one of the most famous entertainers of all time in this book about Frank Sinatra from the #1 New York Times Bestselling Series!

Before Frank Sinatra became the international superstar that we remember him as today, he was just a young boy singing for spare change in his family's New Jersey tavern. Those small... Read more

Laughter in the Dark

By: Yasmine El Rashidi

Narrated by: Ali Nasser

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What can hip-hop tell us about Egypt today?

A decade ago, millions of Egyptians took to the streets in a people-led revolution that captivated the world’s attention and sent ripples across the Middle East. But the so-called “Arab Spring” quickly faded, and a return to the status quo—of authoritarian rule—was cemented. What happened to the energy... Read more

This Is Music: Strings

By: Rekha S. Rajan

Narrated by: Rekha S. Rajan

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Make music with this hands-on introduction to the four instrument families—drums, horns, strings, and voice—in this series by a world-renown music educator.

What do a guitar, a harp, and a piano have in common? They are all strings! This first introduction begins with a simple explanation of what defines a string instrument. Young listeners are... Read more

The Songwriting Guitarist

By: Mike Meiers

Narrated by: Mike Meiers

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Songwriting Guitarist", author Mike Meiers shares his extensive knowledge and experience as a songwriter and guitar instructor spanning over a decade. This book presents a system that propelled Mike into commercial songwriting success and continues to secure major sync licensing placements and coveted songwriting guitarist gigs.
Beyond mere... Read more

The Birth of Hip Hop: Rapper's Delight-The Gene Anderson Story

By: GENE ANDERSON

Narrated by: GENE ANDERSON, JACINTA PARSONS, LEKAN PARSONS, ...

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

~~Celebrating Hip Hop & Rap and it's Contribution to Main Stream Music~~
The Birth of Hip Hop: "Rapper's Delight"-The Gene Anderson Story
Book Details
The story of how Hip Hop got its start as told by Gene "Poo Poo Man" Anderson, the promoter at the center of it all. From "Rapper's Delight" and the... Read more

How to Play the Piano

By: Mike Williams

Narrated by: Mike Williams

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Learning to play the piano can seem like a pretty big challenge for a beginner. What should be the right body posture? How should you place your wrist on a piano? How can you differentiate notes, octaves, and scales? All of those questions make the task of learning how to play the piano really overwhelming. If you are clueless about playing the... Read more

The Green Piano

By: Roberta Flack & Tonya Bolden

Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This autobiographical book by the multiple Grammy Award-winning singer Roberta Flack recounts her childhood in a home surrounded by music and love: it all started with a beat-up piano that her father found in a junkyard, repaired, and painted green.

Growing up in a Blue Ridge mountain town, little Roberta didn't have fancy clothes or expensive... Read more

Die Zeitreisende

By: Ute Lemper

Narrated by: Ute Lemper, Marylu Poolman & Stella Lemper-Taba...

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

UTE LEMPER – Sängerin, Schauspielerin, Tänzerin, Künstlerin – Zu ihrem 60sten Geburtstag erlaubt die Grande Dame des Chansons einen überraschenden persönlichen Einblick in ihr Leben vor und hinter dem Vorhang. Ute Lemper erzählt lebendig von den Anfängen ihres Berufes, ihren großen und kleinen Erfolgen, ihren vielen aufregenden Projekten... Read more

Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower

By: James M. Carter

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Histories of American rock music and the 1960s counterculture typically focus on the same few places: Woodstock, Monterey, Altamont. Yet there was also a very active college circuit that brought edgy acts like the Jefferson Airplane and the Velvet Underground to different metropolitan regions and smaller towns all over the country. These campus... Read more

It's Showtime, Kavi

By: Varsha Bajaj

Narrated by: Priya Ayyar

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Kavi Sharma loves singing and dancing, so when her middle school announces a musical revue, she and her friends Sophie and Pari decide to perform a dance together. If only they could agree on what dance style to do! Soon, all Kavi can think about is the revue, and her schoolwork starts to slip, which has never happened to her before. Kavi's... Read more

Piano Scales FOR KIDS

By: Jessica Gilbert

Narrated by: Betty Johnston

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The piano is a longstanding, classical, and revered instrument. Invented in the 1700s by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) of Padua, Italy, with plenty of hammers and planters to boot, the piano came to be quite popular in the homes of many a Western brood by the end of the nineteenth century. When someone thinks of a classical composer, it... Read more