Willie: An Autobiography
10 best books like Willie: An Autobiography (Willie Nelson): And a Voice to Sing With, The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties, Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House, The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America, Voices from the Second World War: Stories of War as Told to Children of Today, Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches, Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat, Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22, Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903 - 1940
| Author | Joan Baez |
| ISBN | 0671400622 |
• The perfect time for a reissue: In October 2009, PBS will air a ninety-minute primetime special on Joan Baez as part of the Emmy Award-winning American Masters series. Told often from Baez’s perspective, but supported by a rich performance and historical archive, the documentary centers on...
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department...
| Author | Helen Thomas |
| ISBN | 0743202260 |
In a natural follow-up to her national bestseller Front Row at the White House, the dean of the White House press corps presents a vivid and personal chronicle of the American presidency. Currently a columnist for Hearst and a former White House bureau chief for UPI, Helen Thomas has covered an astounding...
| Author | April Ryan |
| ISBN | 1442238410 |
2016 NAACP Image Award Nominee, Essence Top 10 books of 2015, African American Literary Show Inc. 2015 Best Non Fiction Award In The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan gives readers a compelling and personal behind-the-scenes look at race relations in contemporary America from...
| Author | Candlewick Press |
| ISBN | 0763694924 |
In an intergenerational keepsake volume, witnesses to World War II share their memories with young interviewers so that their experiences will never be forgotten.
The Second World War was the most devastating war in history. Up to eighty million people died, and the map of the world was redrawn....
| Author | Ernie Pyle |
| ISBN | 0671644521 |
I was given a copy of this book to aid in my research on WWII for one of my Lash novels. I thought that it was simply going to be transcripts of Ernie’s dispatches sent in from the front lines of WWII that later were published in America. I hoped to get some eyewitness accounts and maybe some interesting anecdotes....
| Author | Patrick K. O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 0743214811 |
In his award-winning book Beyond Valor, Patrick O'Donnell reveals the true nature of the European Theater in World War II, as told by those who survived. Now, with Into the Rising Sun, O'Donnell tells the story of the brutal Pacific War, based on hundreds of interviews spanning a decade. The men who fought...
| Author | Erica Heller |
| ISBN | 1439197687 |
THROUGHOUT ERICA HELLER’S LIFE, when people learned that Joseph Heller was her father, they often remarked, “How terrific!” But was there a catch? Like his most famous work, her father was a study in contradictions: eccentric, brilliant, and voracious, but also mercurial, competitive, and...
| Author | Ray Charles |
| ISBN | 0306814315 |
Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the...
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903 - 1940
| Author | Gary Giddins |
| ISBN | 0316886459 |
First off, "Pocketful of Dreams" is a balanced biography. It would be nice if this didn't have to be noted, but especially in the case of Crosby, when his children and step-children have written scathing or adoring memoirs, it is refreshing when a biographer explores all aspects of a person, the strengths...
| Author | Steve Lowenthal |
| ISBN | 1613745192 |
John Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made more than 40 albums between 1959 and his death in 2001, most of them featuring only his solo steel-string guitar. He fused elements of folk, blues, and experimental...
Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times
| Author | Ralph Stanley |
| ISBN | 1592404251 |
My daddy raised me on old-time music, and hearing the songs today makes me homesick for the mountains. I also remember hearing that Ralph was a big Dylan fan, and had recordings of his folk songs put to banjo. When this book came out, I knew I had to read it. I read this book with another Stanley Brother fan...
| Author | Waylon Jennings |
| ISBN | 0446518654 |
Even though for years I was more into rock and jazz (though I've made many excursions into classic country, bluegrass, and alt-country), I've always listed Waylon Jennings "Dreamin' My Dreams" as one of my all-time favorite discs and probably one of the best-produced discs of all time. I stand by that...
Outlaw: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and the Renegades of Nashville
| Author | Michael Streissguth |
| ISBN | 0062038184 |
Waylon Jennings. Willie Nelson. Kris Kristofferson. Three renegade musicians. Three unexpected stars. Three men who changed Nashville and country music forever.
By the late 1960s, Nashville, Tennessee, was firmly established as the center of the booming country music industry and home...
Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams
| Author | Paul Hemphill |
| ISBN | 0670034142 |
Hank Williams, the quintessential country music singer and songwriter, died alone in the backseat of his Cadillac on New Year’s Day, 1953. He died much as he had lived: drunk, forlorn, suffering from a birth defect, wondering when the bubble would burst. Having sprouted out of nowhere, like a weed...
Merle Haggard's My House of Memories: For the Record
| Author | Merle Haggard |
| ISBN | 0061097950 |
In this riveting personal story, the award-winning, bestselling recording artist takes you on a tour through his house of memories, offering a fascinating look inside his turbulent and successful life. Merle reveals previously untold stories about his birth and troubled upbringing in a converted...
Taylor Swift for Easy Guitar: Easy Guitar with Notes & Tab
| Author | Taylor Swift |
| ISBN | 1423481623 |
WOW! she sure does know how to help with break ups, love, non popularity, crush's, school, and friends... she honestly is one of the best singer's out there. Great Job Taylor!! I can relate to all your songs at some point in my life :) <3 It feels like she's your bestfriend giving you advice when your...
Willie Nelson: An Epic Life
| Author | Joe Nick Patoski |
| ISBN | 0316017787 |
From his first performance at age four, Willie Nelson was driven to make music and live life on his own terms. But though he is a songwriter of exceptional depth - "Crazy" was one of his early classics - Willie only found success after abandoning Nashville and moving to Austin, Texas.
Red Headed...
The Man Comes Around: The Spiritual Journey of Johnny Cash
| Author | Dave Urbanski |
| ISBN | 0972927670 |
My dad grew up (literally) just down the road from the Cash family in northeast Arkansas, and my uncle later married Johnny’s sister, so I’ve always had an interest in the “Man in Black.” J.R. Cash grew up in an environment of faith and at the start of his career, desired only to sing gospel music....
| Author | Heidi Chandler |
| ISBN | 1849823049 |
When her otherwise healthy, even idyllic, first pregnancy ends in the sudden and terrible stillbirth of daughter Avery, Heidi Chandler and her husband are left at a total loss. Looking into Avery’s perfect face, one that never cooed or cried, Heidi realizes how much her life has changed. Holding...
Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters
| Author | Jeff Burger |
| ISBN | 1613747586 |
Leonard Cohen, one of the most admired performers of the last half century, has had a stranger-than-fiction, roller-coaster ride of a life. Now, for the first time, he tells his story in his own words, via more than 50 interviews conducted worldwide between 1966 and 2012.
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Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life
| Author | Laurence Bergreen |
| ISBN | 0553067680 |
Louis Armstrong was the founding father of jazz and one of this century's towering cultural figures. The musical talents of Satchmo - as Armstrong became universally known - were prodigious and groundbreaking. After learning to blow his horn in the bordellos and honky-tonks of Storyville, New Orleans's...
| Author | Bill Cosby |
| ISBN | 0553284673 |
Remember your first kiss? Your first crush? Your first date? Bill Cosby remembers his - and he's telling all! With the warmth and wit that made millions laugh at the foibles of Fatherhood and the madness of the way Time Flies, Cosby merrily tackles the "only subject that no one has ever been able to study...
