Music audiobooks

Elvis and Ginger

By: Ginger Alden

Narrated by: Ginger Alden

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Elvis Presley and Graceland were fixtures in Ginger Alden’s life; after all, she was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. But she had no idea that she would play a part in that enduring legacy—as Elvis Presley’s fiancée and his last great love. For more than three decades Ginger has held the truth of their relationship close to her heart. Now... Read more

Autobiography

By: Morrissey

Narrated by: David Morrissey

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Practically every paragraph has a line or two that demands to be read aloud to the mirror, tattooed on foreheads, carved on tombstones.” –Rolling Stone“Morrissey is a pop star of unusual writing talent.” –The New York TimesAutobiography covers Morrissey’s life from his birth until the present day.  Read more

True Love

By: Jennifer Lopez

Narrated by: Jennifer Lopez

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In Jennifer Lopez’s first ever book, True Love, she explores one of her life’s most defining periods—the transformative two-year journey of how, as an artist and a mother, she confronted her greatest challenges, identified her biggest fears, and ultimately emerged a stronger person than she’s ever been. True Love is an honest and revealing... Read more

On the Road with Janis Joplin

By: John Byrne Cooke

Narrated by: John Byrne Cooke

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Parade's Top Ten Rock n' Roll Reads

As a road manager and filmmaker, he helped run the Janis Joplin show—and record it for posterity. Now he reveals the never-before-told story of his years with the young woman from Port Arthur who would become the first female rock and roll superstar—and depart the stage too soon.
 
In 1967, as the new... Read more

Special Deluxe

By: Neil Young

Narrated by: Neil Young

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect gift for music and car lovers, Special Deluxe is Neil Young's New York Times bestselling follow-up to Waging Heavy Peace that “reads like a great Neil Young song plays.” (The Buffalo News) 

In this acclaimed new memoir, New York Times bestselling author Neil Young has fashioned another extraordinary work of reminiscences told through... Read more

How Music Got Free

By: Stephen Witt

Narrated by: Stephen Witt

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?"

How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers. It’s about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal... Read more

Jim Morrison

By: Stephen Davis

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 17 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

As the lead singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison’s searing poetic vision and voracious appetite for sexual, spiritual, and psychedelic experience inflamed the spirit and psyche of a generation. Since his mysterious death in 1971, millions more fans from a new generation have embraced his legacy, as layers of myth have gathered to enshroud the life,... Read more

The Tao of Willie

By: Willie Nelson & Turk Pipkin

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte, Turk Pipkin & Willie Nelson

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in small-town Texas during the Great Depression, Willie Nelson was raised to believe in helping his neighbors and living without pretense. After many hardscrabble years as a poorly paid songwriter (often watching his work become a gold mine for other performers), Willie finally found his own voice?the gentle but unmistakably honest sound... Read more

Alan Lomax

By: John Szwed

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 20 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of songFolklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his... Read more

Talking to Girls About Duran Duran

By: Rob Sheffield

Narrated by: Scott Sheppard

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape returns, with a different-but equally personal and equally universal- pin on music as memory."No rock critic-living or dead, American or otherwise-has ever written about pop music with the evocative, hyperpoetic perfectitude of Rob Sheffield."So said Chuck Klosterman about Love is a Mix... Read more

Losing My Cool

By: Thomas Chatterton Williams

Narrated by: Thomas Chatterton Williams

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged, 7 hours

Read by the author

A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author and how his father drew him out again-with love, perseverance, and fifteen thousand books. Read more

Composed

By: Rosanne Cash

Narrated by: Rosanne Cash

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriterFor thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.Now, in her memoir, Cash writes compellingly about her... Read more

Yo

By: Ricky Martin

Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

El artista Ricky Martin quien ha vendido mas de 60 millones de albumes en todo el mundo habla por primera vez sobre su infancia, sus comienzos musicales en el grupo Menudo, su busqueda de identidad durante el fenomeno de "Livin La Vida Loca", la aceptacion de su sexualidad, las relaciones en las que descubrio el amor y las decisiones que... Read more

Guitar Zero

By: Gary Marcus

Narrated by: Gary Marcus

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of his fortieth birthday, a professor of no discernible musical talent learns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone of any age might master a new skill. Just about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop... Read more

Waging Heavy Peace

By: Neil Young

Narrated by: Keith Carradine

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect gift for music lovers and Neil Young fans, telling the story behind Neil Young's legendary career and his iconic, beloved songs. 

“I think I will have to use my time wisely and keep my thoughts straight if I am to succeed and deliver the cargo I so carefully have carried thus far to the outer reaches.”—Neil Young, from Waging Heavy... Read more

In the Pleasure Groove

By: John Taylor

Narrated by: John Taylor

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

John Taylor, Duran Duran’s co-founder, takes the reader on a wild ride through his life. From the eighties through today, from Rio to All You Need is Now, John writes about the music, the parties, and the MTV videos that made millions swoon.

With Duran Duran, John Taylor has created some of the greatest music of our time. From the disco dazzle... Read more

Reckless

By: Chrissie Hynde

Narrated by: Rosanna Arquette

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From Chrissie Hynde, one of rock’s most iconic, alluring, kick-ass, and (let’s face it) sexy women, a brilliant, no-holds-barred memoir of a rock life lived to the hilt. Chrissie Hynde, the songwriter and frontwoman of The Pretenders in its various incarnations, has for thirty-five years been one of the most admired and adored and imitated... Read more

Kill 'Em and Leave

By: James McBride

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“You won’t leave this hypnotic book without feeling that James Brown is still out there, howling.”—The Boston Globe
 
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Five-Carat Soul
 
Kill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied... Read more

Junie B. Jones First Ever MUSICAL Edition!

By: Barbara Park

Narrated by: Lana Quintal

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Junie B. Jones The Musical is a hit! Listen to the full cast album and the audiobook of Junie B. Jones, First Grader (at last!).
 
Being in first grade means having to get used to a whole new classroom. And a whole new teacher. And a whole new bunch of strange children. But here's the worst thing of all: When Junie B. tries to read words on the... Read more

Theater Shoes

By: Noel Streatfeild

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful gift edition of the beloved classic about three orphan siblings and their love of music, theater, and dance.
 
When orphans Sorrel, Mark, and Holly are sent to live with their grandmother, a famous English actress, she enrolls them in the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training, the same Academy that made the orphans from... Read more

Bob Dylan In America

By: Sean Wilentz

Narrated by: Sean Wilentz

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.

Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an... Read more

The Ninth

By: Harvey Sachs

Narrated by: Patrick Egan

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“All men become brothers . . .
Be embraced, ye millions!”
 
The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons, Hapsburgs, and Romanovs using every means at their disposal to... Read more

You Don't Know Me

By: Ray Charles Robinson, Jr. & Mary Jane Ross

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the man behind the legend - by his eldest son.

Ray Charles is an American music legend. A multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, and singer with an inimitable vocal style and a catalog of hits including "What I Say," "Georgia on My Mind," "Unchain My Heart," "I Can't Stop Loving... Read more

Dave at Night

By: Gail Carson Levine

Narrated by: Jason Harris

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

It was the last place anyone should have called Home, the last place for kids to live —

The year is 1926. Dave's beloved father is dead and his stepmother doesn't want him. Only the HHB will take him in—Hebrew Home for Boys — Hell Hold for Brats. But Dave is tough and a troublemaker. He can take care of himself. If he doesn't like the Home, he'll... Read more