Los Lobos

Chris Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | American Music
• Los Lobos leaped into the national spotlight in 1987, when their cover of "La Bamba" became a No. 1 hit. But what looked like an overnight achievement... Lees meer

Real Love, No Drama

Danny Alexander

• Hardcover | Engels | American Music
• Mary J. Blige is an icon who represents the political consciousness of hip hop and the historical promise of soul. She is an everywoman, celebrated by... Lees meer

A Spy in the House of Loud

Chris Stamey

• Hardcover | Engels | American Music
• Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, "the old guard had become bl... Lees meer

Who Got the Camera?

Eric Harvey

• Hardcover | Engels | American Music
• Reality first appeared in the late 1980s--in the sense not of real life but rather of the TV entertainment genre inaugurated by shows such as Cops and... Lees meer

Quantum Criminals

Alex Pappademas, Joan Lemay

• Hardcover | Engels | American Music
• "ONE OF THE SHARPEST, FUNNIEST, AND BEST BOOKS EVER ABOUT ANY ROCK ARTIST"-- Rolling Stone "WEIRD AND WONDROUS"-- New York Times "I ADORED IT"--Michae... Lees meer

Don't Suck, Don't Die

Kristin Hersh

• Paperback | Engels | American Music
• "Friend, asshole, angel, mutant," singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt "came along and made us gross and broken people seem . . . I dunno, cooler, I guess."... Lees meer

Where the Devil Don't Stay

Stephen Deusner

• Hardcover | Engels | American Music
• In 1996, Patterson Hood recruited friends and fellow musicians in Athens, Georgia, to form his dream band: a group with no set lineup that specialized... Lees meer

Madonnaland

Alina Simone

• Paperback | Engels | American Music
• When Alina Simone agreed to write a book about Madonna, she thought it might provide an interesting excuse to indulge her own eighties nostalgia. Wron... Lees meer

Maybe We'll Make It

Margo Price

• Hardcover | Engels | American Music
• An October 2022 IndieNext pick "[An] engaging and beautifully narrated quest for personal fulfillment and musical recognition...This is a fast-paced t... Lees meer

The Running Kind

David Cantwell

• Hardcover | Engels | American Music
• 2022 Belmont Award for the Best Book on Country Music, International Country Music Conference/Belmont University New and expanded biography of one of ... Lees meer

I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive

Lynn Melnick

• Hardcover | Engels | American Music
• A moving and essential exploration of what it takes to find your voice as a woman, a survivor, an artist, and an icon. The first time Lynn Melnick lis... Lees meer

Woman Walk the Line

• Paperback | Engels | American Music
• Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.... Lees meer

You're with Stupid

Bruce Adams

• Hardcover | Engels | American Music
• 2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound Collections An insider's look at how Chicago's u... Lees meer

Ryan Adams

David Menconi

• Paperback | Engels | American Music
• Before he achieved his dream of being an internationally known rock personality, Ryan Adams had a band in Raleigh, North Carolina. Whiskeytown led the... Lees meer

DJ Screw

Lance Scott Walker

• Hardcover | Engels | American Music
• DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutiona... Lees meer

The Flatlanders

John T Davis

• Paperback | Engels | American Music
• A group of three friends who made music in a house in Lubbock, Texas, recorded an album that wasn't released and went their separate ways into solo ca... Lees meer

John Prine

Eddie Huffman

• Paperback | Engels | American Music
• With a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs "Angel from Montgomery," "Sam Stone," and "Paradise" to the classic country music parody "You Nev... Lees meer

Black Country Music

Francesca T Royster

• Hardcover | Engels | American Music
• 2023 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2024 Woody Guthrie Book Award, International Association for the Study of Popular Mus... Lees meer

Woman Walk the Line

• Hardcover | Engels | American Music
• Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.... Lees meer

Merle Haggard

David Cantwell

• Paperback | Engels | American Music
• Merle Haggard has enjoyed artistic and professional triumphs few can match. He's charted more than a hundred country hits, including thirty-eight numb... Lees meer

T Bone Burnett

Lloyd Sachs

• Hardcover | Engels | American Music
• T Bone Burnett is a unique, astonishingly prolific music producer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and soundtrack visionary. Renowned as a studio maven ... Lees meer