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My Cross to Bear: Confronting the Ghosts of the Past – A Memoir by Gregg Allman

On May 22, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Entertainment, Music, Nonfiction, by Editor

As one of the greatest rock icons of all time, Gregg Allman has lived it all and then some. For almost fifty years, he’s been creating some of the most recognizable songs in American rock, but never before has he paused to reflect on the long road he’s traveled. Now, he tells the unflinching story of his life, laying bare the unvarnished truth about his wild ride that has spanned across the years.

iGerman: Growing up with Bee Gees’ Music in the Germany of the Late 1960s

On May 21, 2012, in Articles, iGerman, Wilfried F. Voss, by Editor

My association with the Bee Gees’ music, however, is not their disco music but their romantic rock during the 1960s when I was a teenager living in Germany. Yes, I do have their Saturday Night Fever CD somewhere, but it would require some digging to find it. However, these days I occasionally listen to their older albums like Bee Gees’ First, Horizontal, and Odessa.

Mr. Broadway: The Inside Story of the Shuberts, the Shows, and the Stars by Gerald Schoenfeld

On April 20, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Entertainment, History, Music, Nonfiction, by Editor

Schoenfeld describes how he and his partner, Bernie Jacobs, saved the Shubert Organization, bringing some of Broadway’s greatest hits to the stage – from A Chorus Line, Equus, and Amadeus to Pippin, and many more.

Londonderry Air – The True Origin of “Danny Boy”

On April 17, 2012, in Irish Songbook, It's all about music..., Musical Favorites, Wilfried F. Voss, by Editor

Londonderry Air is an air that originated from County Londonderry in Ireland. It is popular among the Irish diaspora and is very well known throughout the world. The tune is played as the victory anthem of Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games. “Danny Boy” is a popular set of lyrics to the tune.

A Natural Woman: A Memoir by Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter Carole King

On April 10, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Entertainment, Music, Nonfiction, by Editor

Carole King takes us from her early beginnings in Brooklyn, to her remarkable success as one of the world’s most acclaimed songwriting and performing talents of all time. A NATURAL WOMAN chronicles King’s extraordinary life, drawing readers into her musical world, including her phenomenally successful #1 album Tapestry, and into her journey as a performer, mother, wife and present-day activist.

Who Is That Man?: In Search of the Real Bob Dylan by David Dalton

On April 8, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Entertainment, Music, Nonfiction, by Editor

For almost half a century, Bob Dylan has been a primary catalyst in rock’s shifting sensibilities. Few American artists are as important, beloved, and endlessly examined, yet he remains something of an enigma. Who, we ask, is the “real” Bob Dylan? Is he Bobby Zimmerman, yearning to escape Hibbing, Minnesota, or the Woody Guthrie wannabe playing Greenwich Village haunts?

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

On April 1, 2012, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

America’s most beguiling metropolis started out as a snake-infested, hurricane-battered swamp. Through intense imperial rivalries and ambitious settlers who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, the site became a crossroads for the Atlantic world. Powell gives us the full sweep of the city’s history from its founding through statehood.

The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places by Bernie Krause

On March 26, 2012, in Book Reviews, Music, Nonfiction, Science, by Editor

Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world’s leading experts in natural sound, and he’s spent his life discovering and recording nature’s rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world’s honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where natural soundscapes exist virtually unchanged from when the earliest humans first inhabited the earth.

On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening by Rick Moody

On March 23, 2012, in Book Reviews, Essays, Music, Nonfiction, by Editor

Rick Moody has been writing about music as long as he has been writing, and this book provides an ample selection from that output. His anatomy of the word cool reminds us that, in the postwar 40s, it was infused with the feeling of jazz music but is now merely a synonym for neat.

Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning by Gary Marcus

On March 18, 2012, in Book Reviews, Entertainment, Music, Nonfiction, by Editor

On the eve of his 40th birthday, Gary Marcus, a renowned scientist with no discernible musical talent, learns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone—of any age —can become musical. Do you have to be born musical to become musical? Do you have to start at the age of six?

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