Music audiobooks

Technicolor Dreams

By: Bill Brown

Narrated by: Bill Brown

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

(Early Intermediate Level) Learn both the rhythm and lead guitar parts to this 60’s hit without using any music, tab, or video. The entire lesson is taught “by ear” and demo and backing tracks are included! Read more

Soda Stereo

By: Marcelo Fernández Bitar

Narrated by: Alen Baldi

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A lo largo de su carrera, Soda Stereo creció hasta límites insospechables. Los hechos demuestran que sigue más vigente que nunca. Y ésta es la historia.
Muchos escribieron sobre Soda Stereo, pero pocos conocieron tanto a la banda como Marcelo Fernández Bitar. En los 80, durante la incandescente explosión del rock argentino que cambió para... Read more

It Was All a Dream

By: Justin Tinsley

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist Justin Tinsley’s It Was All a Dream is a fresh, insightful telling of the life beyond the legend. It is based on extensive interviews with those who knew and loved Biggie, including neighbors, friends, DJs, party promoters, and journalists. And it places Biggie’s life in context, both within the history of rap but also the wider... Read more

Dolly Parton

By: Newbury Publishing

Narrated by: Colin Fluxman

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Dolly Parton is best known for her musical prowess, but there is so much more to her character than people realize. Nowadays, she is the epitome of old Hollywood glamor. She is pretty well known for getting a lot of cosmetic surgery over the years in order to keep up the gaudy, glamorous image we’ve come to know and love. Even through all this... Read more

Guitar By Ear: Rock and Blues Box Set 4

By: Bill Brown

Narrated by: Bill Brown

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Rock, Progressive Rock, Surf, Folk, Blues, and Latin Rock are all in this Guitar by Ear Blues and Rock box set. The artists in this set include CCR, Glass Harp, Guns N’ Roses, Thin Lizzy, José Feliciano, and more! There are also a few SLIDE songs in this collection, as well. This set has over fourteen hours of high-quality guitar instruction... Read more

Never Is a Long Time

By: Bill Brown

Narrated by: Bill Brown

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

(Advanced Level) Strap in for some early Phil Keaggy at his best. Before he was a world-renown fingerstyle player he made his mark in the field of progressive rock in the 1970’s. This lesson teaches one his band’s iconic songs completely “by ear.” Included is a full demonstration of the song and backing tracks to practice and perform with. Read more

Old Man

By: Bill Brown

Narrated by: Bill Brown

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

(Beginner Level) This lesson is based on the Massey Hall (1971) acoustic version of this Neil Young hit. The interesting thing about this song are the chords used that seemed to have disappeared during the “Rock” era only to re-emerge later in the “alternative” movement. The entire lesson is taught “by ear” so there is no music or tab to read. Read more

One Night

By: Bill Brown

Narrated by: Bill Brown

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

(Beginner Level) Also known as “One Night With You.” In this lesson you will learn the rhythm guitar part played by Elvis Presley on this song completely by ear. The lesson starts with a full demonstration of the song and is then followed by detailed section-by-section and chord-by-chord instruction of the entire song. Read more

Fun, Fun, Fun

By: Bill Brown

Narrated by: Bill Brown

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

(Intermediate Level) This surf standard is fun and easy to learn when you learn it “by ear!” In this lesson, the student learns the rhythm and lead guitar parts completely “by ear” using no music, tab, or video. The lesson starts with a full demonstration of the song followed by a detailed lesson of every phrase and lick. At the end of the... Read more

Hi-Heeled Sneakers

By: Bill Brown

Narrated by: Bill Brown

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

(Beginner Level) In this fun all-audio lesson you will learn the entire guitar part to this José Feliciano hit completely “by ear.” At the beginning you are given a full demonstration of the arrangement followed by a detailed all-audio lesson of the song in small sections. At the end of the lesson you are given the backing tracks with no guitar... Read more

Light My Fire

By: Bill Brown

Narrated by: Bill Brown

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

(Intermediate Level) This Guitar By Ear teaches the entire guitar part to this José Feliciano hit completely “by ear.” At the beginning you are given a full demonstration of the arrangement followed by a detailed all-audio lesson of the song in small sections. At the end of the lesson you are given the backing tracks with no guitar on them for... Read more

Ali and the Sea Stars

By: Ali Stroker

Narrated by: Ali Stroker

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Tony Award-winning actress Ali Stroker captures the magic and community of theater in her debut book, about a spirited girl in a wheelchair who stages a show for her hometown. Based on the pivotal summer Ali performed in her first musical by the Jersey Shore! Ali loves to dance, sing, and act. But she had never thought of putting on her own show... Read more

Long Train Runnin'

By: Chris Epting, Pat Simmons & Tom Johnston

Narrated by: Leon Nixon, Chris Henry Coffey, T. Ryder Smith ...

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, the incredible true story of the legendary band, The Doobie Brothers, written by the founding members.
Only a very few rock bands that have had the longevity, success, and drama of The Doobie Brothers. Born out of late 1960s NoCal, they stood alongside their contemporaries The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers, and many... Read more

Up Around the Bend

By: Bill Brown

Narrated by: Bill Brown

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

(Late Beginner Level) Learn both the rhythm and lead guitar parts to this classic rock hit without using any music, tab, or video. The entire lesson is taught “by ear” and demo and backing tracks are included! Read more

Lodi

By: Bill Brown

Narrated by: Bill Brown

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

(Beginner Level) Learn both the rhythm and lead guitar parts to this CCR hit without using any music, tab, or video. The entire lesson is taught “by ear” in two- to four-measure sections and demonstration and backing tracks in three different configurations are included! Read more

Raunchy

By: Bill Brown

Narrated by: Bill Brown

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

(Intermediate Level) There are a lot of standard rock-a-billy and surf licks to learn in this song lesson. Learn both the rhythm and lead guitar parts to this level one classic without reading music or tab. Full demonstration and backing tracks—in three configurations—are included. Read more

Proud Mary

By: Bill Brown

Narrated by: Bill Brown

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

(Beginner Level) Learn both the rhythm and lead guitar parts to this classic rock hit without using any music, tab, or video. The entire lesson is taught “by ear” and demo and backing tracks are included! Read more

Chronicling Stankonia

By: Regina Bradley

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post–civil rights generation. For scholar and critic Regina N. Bradley, Outkast’s work is the touchstone, a blend of funk, gospel, and hip-hop developed in conjunction with the work of other culture... Read more

May We Forever Stand

By: Imani Perry

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was embraced almost immediately as an anthem that captured the story... Read more

Iravaan

By: Pa Raghavan

Narrated by: Deepika Arun & Veera

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"இது சாத்தானால் ஆசீர்வதிக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு கடவுளின் கதை. நாம் சொற்களில் வாழ்கிறோம். இந்நாவலின் நாயகன் இசையில் வாழ்கிறான். நாம் சமூக விதிகளுக்குக் கட்டுப்பட்டு இயங்குகிறோம். அவன் வாழ்க்கை பிரபஞ்ச விதி எதற்குள்ளும் பொருந்தாமல் புடைத்து நிற்கிறது. அதனாலேயே அது வண்ணங்களோ வாசனையோ இல்லாத ஒன்றாகிறது. காலத்தை வெல்வதற்கு அவனுக்குள்ள வேட்கையும் அவனைத்... Read more

Song of Spider-Man

By: Glen Berger

Narrated by: Glen Berger

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the best literary works of this year” (Miami Herald-Tribune): The true story of a theatrical dream—or nightmare—come true…the making of the Spider-Man musical.

As you might imagine, writing a Broadway musical has its challenges. But it turns out there are challenges one can’t begin to imagine when collaborating with two rock legends and a... Read more

Her Country

By: Marissa R. Moss

Narrated by: Kelli Tager

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The full and unbridled inside story of the last twenty years of country music through the lens of Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton, and Kacey Musgraves—their peers and inspirations, their paths to stardom, and their battles against a deeply embedded boys’ club, as well as their efforts to transform the genre into a more inclusive place for all (and... Read more

Duet

By: Elise Broach

Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A musically gifted bird, a piano-playing boy, and a real-life mystery involving three artistic geniuses

Welcome to the world of Mirabelle, a young goldfinch who loves to sing and dreams of becoming a musical star. She lives with her family in the backyard of a piano teacher, and she is quickly intrigued by Mr. Starek's newest pupil. Michael Jin... Read more

On Jazz

By: Alyn Shipton

Narrated by: Alyn Shipton

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Few musical genres inspire the passionate devotion of jazz. Its mystique goes far beyond the melodies and rhythms, with its key players and singers discussed by aficionados with a respect that borders on reverence. Some books on jazz offer little more than theory or dry facts, thereby relinquishing the ‘essence’ of the music. This book is... Read more