Music audiobooks

A Little History of Music

By: Robert Philip

Narrated by: Zeb Soanes

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present
Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia?
Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms,... Read more

Why Tammy Wynette Matters

By: Steacy Easton

Narrated by: April Doty

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

With hits such as “Stand By Your Man” and “Golden Ring,” Tammy Wynette was an icon of American domesticity and femininity. But there were other sides to the first lady of country. Steacy Easton places the complications of Wynette’s music and her biography in sharp-edged relief, exploring how she made her sometimes-tumultuous life into her work,... Read more

A Song and A Prayer

By: Loretta Lynn & Kim McLean

Narrated by: Kim McLean

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Experience spiritual encouragement from the Queen of Country Music with this collection of devotionals and uplifting lyrics. It’s been over sixty years since the late Loretta Lynn first rose to stardom, transforming from a coal miner’s daughter to the Queen of Country Music. Loretta knew she was blessed—to record music, to sing her songs to such... Read more

Amy Winehouse

By: Kate Solomon

Narrated by: Rebecca Lee

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In her intense, brief life, Amy Winehouse's music spoke directly to millions. And since her death, her fans have only increased.

Amy Winehouse is one of those pop stars that comes along so rarely we're not sure we knew what we had when we had her. Her story speaks to us not because the relentless tabloid coverage of her darker days unfolded in... Read more

Beyoncé

By: Tshepo Mokoena

Narrated by: Nerissa Bradley

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyoncé is not simply a pop sensation. She is a cultural phenomenon empowering the oppressed and dispossessed, challenging white privilege and misogyny and exploding gender politics. But who is Beyoncé Knowles-Carter? And how did a small girl from Houston become the strong confident woman whose albums sell in their millions and whose songs have... Read more

Enly and the Buskin' Blues

By: Jennie Liu

Narrated by: Jason Vu

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Enly Wu Lewis is determined to go to band camp and follow in the footsteps of his musician father, who died years ago.



But his mom, a single parent working two jobs, is saving every penny for his older brother's college tuition. So Enly sets out to earn the money for camp on his own, by busking with an obscure instrument he can... Read more

Easily Slip into Another World

By: Henry Threadgill & Brent Hayes Edwards

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art.

A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker

Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music. At 79, the saxophonist, flautist, and... Read more

I Am DJ Michelle

By: Michelle Rasul , Saida Rasul & Rabiah York Lumbard

Narrated by: Wyclef Jean, various narrators, Soneela Nankani...

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For young readers inspired by bestselling autobiographies such as Essentially Charli and Reach for the Skai comes the extraordinary true story of how a nine-year-old DJ from Dubai became an international superstar, as told in her own words—with some help from her “Momager”—with a foreword by Wyclef Jean.Dubai wunderkind Michelle Rasul was only a... Read more

When Rock Met Disco

By: Steven Blush

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Disco began as a gay, black, and brown underground New York City party music scene, which alone was enough to ward off most rockers. The difference between rock and disco was as sociological as it was aesthetic.



At its best, disco was galvanizing and affirmative. Its hypnotic power to uplift a broad spectrum of the populace made it the ubiquitous... Read more

40 Favorite Hymns of the Christian Faith

By: Leland Ryken

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Every hymn begins its life as a poem—and we can give our favorite hymns fresh life by returning to their poetic roots. This anthology of several centuries' worth of great hymns invites us to experience these works as devotional poetry—to slow down and savor their well-turned phrases and evocative language. English professor Leland Ryken provides... Read more

Gentleman of Jazz

By: Ramsey Lewis & Aaron Cohen

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This immersive new autobiography provides insight into the early life and illustrious career of the late great Ramsey Lewis, one of the most popular jazz pianists of all time.Beginning with his childhood growing up in Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood, Ramsey Lewis recounts his memories of the music in his parents’ church and his early piano... Read more

Nirvana - Rock School mit Andy Brings, Folge 5 (ungekürzt)

By: Andy Brings & Rock Classics Magazin

Narrated by: Andy Brings, Nilz Bokelberg, Holger Stratmann &...

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In der Luft liegt der Duft des "Teen-Spirit" und Andy Brings begrüßt drei besondere Zeitzeugen: Nilz Bokelberg, der den Tod von Kurt Cobain im TV verkündete. Holger Stratmann, der Dave Grohl und Krist Novoselic interviewte, sowie Michael Lohrmann, welcher Kurt Cobain persönlich kennenlernen durfte. Sie sind auf den Spuren der Band - vom Leben... Read more

I Thought I Heard You Speak

By: Audrey Golden

Narrated by: Audrey Golden, Ebony Jonelle & Jessica Joslin

Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual catalogues and memoirs to exhibitions. Yet no in-depth history has ever been told from the perspectives of the women who were integral to Factory's cultural significance.

The untold history of Factory Records is one of... Read more

T-DOLA 16

By: Jason Yonai

Narrated by: KazeLoon

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

T-DOLA 16 by Jason Yonai and narrated by KazeLoon for K.D Lean Inc. Read more

Das entfesselte Jahrzehnt

By: Jens Balzer

Narrated by: Sebastian Dunkelberg

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Jens Balzer, einer der profiliertesten deutschen Kulturjournalisten, zeichnet ein farbiges Panorama der Siebziger, von der Mondlandung und Woodstock über die Ölkrise und den Deutschen Herbst bis hin zum Nihilismus des Punk. Ein Jahrzehnt, in dem sich so ziemlich alles ändert: Die Hippies erproben unerhörte Lebensweisen, die antiautoritäre... Read more

Spotify Algorithms: Learn How To Use The Spotify Algorithm To Rapidly Grow Your Fanbase

By: Andrew Southworth & Genera Studios

Narrated by: Andrew Southworth

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Spotify’s algorithm is kind of a black box. Your song releases, you do some marketing and then it gets thrown onto some algorithmic playlists, sometimes. To most artists it may as well be completely random, but behind the scenes there is of course some very particular code executing purposefully written algorithms. Unfortunately we have no idea... Read more

Rock & Roll Nightmares: True Stories, Volume 2

By: Staci Layne Wilson

Narrated by: Andy Garrison

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Rock & Roll Nightmares, Volume 1 scratched the sinister surface with tales of the 27 Club, rock ‘n’ roll suicides, plane crashes, curses, and more. Now the award-winning series continues in a standalone audiobook full of concert mayhem, a look at the “baby groupie” trend of the 1970s, Satanic panic, horrific home invasions, musicians who’ve... Read more

To Anyone Who Ever Asks

By: Howard Fishman

Narrated by: Howard Fishman

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for best biography

The mysterious true story of Connie Converse—a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting music never found broad recognition—and one writer’s quest to understand her life

This is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic life. When musician and New Yorker contributor... Read more

Deliver Me from Nowhere

By: Warren Zanes

Narrated by: Warren Zanes

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen’s career—in development as a major motion picture starring Jeremy Allen White (The Bear)

“Brilliant . . . For fans of American music, Deliver Me from Nowhere makes a great ghost story.”—The Boston Globe

AN NPR... Read more

Juanes

By: Diego Alejandro Londoño Molina

Narrated by: Diego Alejandro Londoño Molina & Juanes

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

El audiolibro oficial de Juanes La vida de Juanes es una canción, o mejor, son miles de canciones volando a toda velocidad en miles de millones de segundos, o en una sola historia. en estos audios, realizados desde los más lejanos rincones de su memoria, sus recuerdos se hacen palabras e imágenes. Juanes, el hombre que ha vendido más de 20... Read more

Jembe Revolution

By: Kojo Bey

Narrated by: Obba Babatundé

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The jembe drum is one of the most popular percussion instruments in the world. This book will explore African drumming and dance before the jembe drum arrived in America. Drummers, dancers and enthusiasts who experienced the beginning of jembe music in America provided insight on how the jembe fueled a revolution. The energy of this book... Read more

The Yin and the Yang of It All

By: John Kim Faye

Narrated by: John Kim Faye

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1966—the Year of the Horse, not to mention Revolver and Pet Sounds — John Kim Faye was born out of wedlock to a 40-year-old Korean mother and a 62-year-old Irish father. Faye grew up in the state of Delaware, where laws forbidding interracial marriage were still on the books until 1967.
As the lead singer and primary songwriter of the... Read more

El ritmo infinito

By: Michael Spitzer

Narrated by: Jordi Llovet

Length: 18 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

En el transcurso de la historia, la música nos ha definido como especie. Sin embargo, es una parte ignorada del relato de nuestros orígenes. En busca de ese cosmos musical, este libro nos ofrece un viaje estimulante sobre la relación del ser humano con este arte. Una obra extraordinariamente tejida que abarca desde su evolución hasta los daños... Read more

Wolfy - Abridged

By: Kim Jens Witzenleiter

Narrated by: Christoph Walter, Kevin Kasper, Constanze Buttm...

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wolfy ist ein kleiner grüner Lykaner mit Vorliebe für Rock und Metal. Er kommt aus einer Dimension, in der der Wolf die vorherrschende Rasse ist. Zufällig gelangt Wolfy über ein Portal in unsere Welt. Hier freundet er sich mit dem Pärchen Tina und Daniel an, und zusammen suchen sie nach einem Weg, Wolfy wieder nach Hause zu bringen. Dabei... Read more