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Tommy Dorsey’s trombone defined an age when precision was emotion and melody carried the weight of elegance. Brass and Grace traces his journey from the coal towns of Pennsylvania to the glittering ballrooms of New York and Hollywood, capturing how one man’s pursuit of tonal perfection reshaped American music. Drawing from meticulous research, it reconstructs the evolution of swing through Dorsey’s exacting leadership, his collaborations with Frank Sinatra and Sy Oliver, and his lifelong balance between control and feeling. Across thirty chronologically woven chapters, the biography ...

Born into Southern privilege and tragedy, Gram Parsons remade American music before dying at twenty-six. This definitive biography traces his life from Waycross, Georgia, through Harvard’s coffeehouses, the Los Angeles counterculture, and into the deserts of California where myth overtook memory. Drawing on archival accounts, interviews, and firsthand documentation, it renders the man behind the legend—brilliant, restless, and undone by his own pursuit of transcendence. Through vivid narrative and deep cultural context, the book follows Parsons’s journey from early folk experiments to...

From the coffeehouses of Washington, D.C., to the world’s grandest stages, Emmylou Harris: Country Rock’s Silver-Voiced Angel chronicles one of the most enduring figures in modern music. Drawn from extensive research and documented history, this definitive biography follows Harris’s remarkable journey across six decades of transformation—through the shifting soundscapes of folk, country rock, bluegrass, and Americana. Born into a disciplined military family in Alabama, Harris found her calling not in stability but in song. Her path led from university drama classrooms to late-night ...

There has never been, nor will there ever be anyone like Audrey Smaltz. Towering six-feet-tall (her superpower) since she was a teenager in Harlem, she has always stood out from the crowd. Smaltz’s details her colorful journey as a groundbreaking model, Wall Street broker, department store dynamo, fashion coordinator, commentator, editor, and entrepreneur. With her creative vision and business acumen earning her the support of legendary designers and brands such as Giorgio Armani, Jason Wu, Donna Karan, Victoria’s Secret, Calvin Klein, Ferragamo, Michael Kors, Stephen Burrows, and Vera Wang.

Gerry Mulligan’s sound changed the shape of modern jazz. From his early years in Queens to his work alongside Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and Dave Brubeck, Mulligan transformed the baritone saxophone from a background instrument into a lyrical voice of intelligence and grace. Air and Architecture — Gerry Mulligan and the Art of Cool Jazz traces his full life and career in unprecedented depth, drawing from archival research, session notes, interviews, and letters preserved in the Library of Congress. The narrative unfolds through the disciplined curiosity that defined Mulligan’s art. Each...

Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray; January 19, 1923-May 31, 2013), born in Manhattan, was an American character actress of stage, television and film. Stapleton is best known for her portrayal of Edith Bunker, the perpetually optimistic and devoted wife of Archie Bunker, on the 1970s sitcom All in the Family—arguably the most iconic female character in television history. The role earned her three Emmys and two Golden Globes for Best Actress in a comedy series. The following recordings include two interviews (1972 and 1980) and two of Stapleton's Emmy Award wins, in 1972 and 1978.

Guy Clark reshaped the language of American songwriting. From the windswept plains of Monahans, Texas, to the kitchen-table salons of Nashville, his songs carried a craftsman’s precision and a poet’s empathy. Guy Clark: Poet of Texas Songcraft traces his journey through six decades of music—where every lyric, chord, and silence was built to last. This definitive biography follows Clark’s life from his early years surrounded by West Texas storytellers to his arrival in the Houston folk scene of the 1960s and his legendary mentorship in Nashville’s creative circles. Drawing on ...

Doug Sahm never fit into one sound, one scene, or one story—and that’s exactly why his music endures. Texas’ Eclectic King traces his remarkable life from a child prodigy on San Antonio radio to a global ambassador of roots music, capturing how he fused country, blues, rock, and Tex-Mex into a style decades ahead of its time. Through exhaustive research and vivid storytelling, the book reveals Sahm’s restless genius as he built bridges between cultures and genres. Readers will follow his evolution from the Sir Douglas Quintet’s British-invasion façade to his psychedelic ...

Freddy Fender’s story is the sound of two Americas meeting in one voice. Born Baldemar Garza Huerta in 1937 in San Benito, Texas, he rose from migrant fields to the top of the Billboard charts, proving that borderland identity could be a source of power, not limitation. This definitive biography follows his life from humble beginnings to Grammy-winning triumphs, capturing the full arc of a man who turned bilingual song into universal art. Drawing from decades of performances, recordings, and interviews, Freddy Fender: Tex-Mex Balladeer traces his evolution from a teenage singer in dusty ...

Born in San Antonio’s West Side barrios, Flaco Jiménez transformed the humble accordion into a voice heard around the world. From the dancehalls of South Texas to collaborations with The Rolling Stones and Ry Cooder, his journey embodies the evolution of Mexican-American music from local tradition to global art form. Drawing on seven decades of performance, recording, and cultural advocacy, this documentary-style biography traces the rise of conjunto music through Flaco’s hands. It follows him from childhood rehearsals under the guidance of his father, Santiago Jiménez Sr., to ...

Lowell George was one of the most inventive and least understood musicians of the 1970s—a guitarist, songwriter, and producer who built Little Feat into one of rock’s most admired yet enigmatic bands. Drawing on archival depth and cultural context, this biography traces George’s full life arc—from Hollywood childhood and early bands through the creation of Little Feat’s genre-defying sound and his tragic death on tour in 1979. Through vivid storytelling and rigorous documentation, it captures how George fused swamp funk, country lyricism, and studio precision into a sound that was...

Alejandro Escovedo’s life traces the full arc of American music—from the riotous energy of 1970s punk to the storytelling grace of modern Americana. Born in San Antonio and raised in California, he emerged from the chaos of San Francisco’s underground to forge a career defined by risk, honesty, and reinvention. Across five decades, Escovedo transformed himself from rebel guitarist to master songwriter, from survivor to mentor. This is the definitive portrait of an artist who never stood still. Drawing on interviews, archives, and first-hand accounts, this sweeping biography follows ...

Across five turbulent decades, Steve Earle has stood as one of America’s most uncompromising musical voices—a songwriter forged in the oil towns of Texas, tempered by the rebellion of Nashville’s outlaw scene, and redeemed through the hard grace of survival. Steve Earle: Outlaw Country Rock Poet traces his entire journey, from his teenage years chasing Townes Van Zandt through Houston coffeehouses to his transformation into the gravel-voiced elder statesman of Americana. This definitive biography follows Earle’s life in full: the early struggles to break into Nashville’s ...

Legendary Grammy Award-winning producer and towering musical icon T Bone Burnett speaks plainly, which is all the more reason why his stunning new Words + Music, The Confederacy: Truth and Reconciliation, lands with such force. And his songs, delivered straight from the heart, carry with them the weight of unvarnished truth and the wisdom he’s gathered from a lifetime.

His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly five decades and there are very few places on the globe that he has not visited. In this volume of memoirs David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places that he has visited. Over the last 25 years he has established himself as the world's leading Natural History programme maker with several landmark BBC series.

The long-awaited autobiography from Phil Collins, one of the best-selling music artists of all time. This is the roller-coaster journey from his beginnings as a child actor to his domination of the charts as both a solo artist and part of Genesis. His success is astounding, his music has global reach, and his story is legendary.

From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood. The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at Pentecostal tent revivals. He was an expert at reading his father’s mercurial moods and gauging exactly when his mother was likely to erupt, and even before he learned to ride a bike, he was often forced to take matters into his own hands.

A candid, moving and kinetic story of self-realization through the power of music, Our Secrets Are The Same is the remarkable joint memoir by Simple Minds' founder members, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill. It not only reveals the inner workings of one of the most innovative and successful British bands of the past half-century, but the deeply personal tale of an extraordinary friendship which powered teenage dreams into visionary action.

Acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto explores the roots of Hitchcock’s obsessions - with food, murder, and idealized love, among others - and traces the origins of his incomparable, bizarre genius, from his childhood and education to the golden years of his career. Based on interviews with his writers, actors, and longtime associates, and on exhaustive research, The Dark Side of Genius is the definitive biography of Alfred Hitchcock.

Anxiety, depression, financial struggles, illness—Debbie writes candidly about these and other challenges, and how she ultimately redesigned her life to overcome them. This is the story of her not only surviving, but thriving: returning to her musical roots, releasing new albums, going back out on tour, and living the best version of her authentic self to remain…Eternally Electric!