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    • By: Christophe Lebold
    • Narrated by: Vlasta Vrana
    • Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • After more than two decades of research and travels, Christophe Lebold, who befriended the poet and spent time with him in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen’s life and art.

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    • By: David Byrne
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman, David Byrne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological, is now updated with a new chapter on digital curation.

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    • The Eagles’ Reckless Ride Down the Rock & Roll Highway
    • By: Mick Wall
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Legendary rock journalist Mick Wall delivers definitive insight into America's bestselling band of all time, exploring their meteoric rise to fame and the hedonistic days of the '70s music scene in LA, when American music was taking over the world....

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    • The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album
    • By: Ken Caillat, Steve Stiefel
    • Narrated by: Ken Caillat, Fred Berman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for 31 weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy....

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    • The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
    • By: Dennis McNally
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 29 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 542 ratings
    • From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever grace American culture....

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    • Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens
    • By: 50 Cent
    • Narrated by: Kris Ex
    • Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens is a violent and introspective memoir that reveals not only 50 Cent's story but the story of a generation....

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    • Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
    • By: James Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists—Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans—who came together to create the most famous and bestselling jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue....

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    • A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette
    • By: Tyler Mahan Coe
    • Narrated by: Tyler Mahan Coe
    • Length: 26 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • From the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music’s legendary royal couple—George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

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    • The Revolutionary Year
    • By: Steve Turner
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 361 ratings
    • A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose groundbreaking legacy would forever change music and popular culture....

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    • By: Ted Gioia
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 21 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic - acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world....

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    • The Beatles: All These Years
    • By: Mark Lewisohn
    • Narrated by: Clive Mantle
    • Length: 43 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,579 ratings
    • Tune In is the first volume of All These Years - a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy....

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    • Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
    • By: Lizzy Goodman
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Nicol Zanzarella
    • Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 632 ratings
    • In the second half of the 20th century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene....

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    • The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
    • By: Warren Zanes
    • Narrated by: Warren Zanes
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Without Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen might not be who he is today. The natural follow-up to Springsteen’s hugely successful album The River should have been the hit-packed Born in the U.S.A....

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    • By: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times....

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    • In Their Own Words
    • By: Jenny Boyd
    • Narrated by: Jenny Boyd
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A glimpse into the creative power of music.

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    • The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
    • By: Chris Payne
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead, Chris Abell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • An energetic and explosive oral history examining emo’s pop culture takeover from 1999-2008, featuring exclusive interviews with My Chemical Romance’s Mikey Way and Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump....

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    • The Inside Story of Life in L.A.'s Legendary Rock and Roll Neighborhood
    • By: Michael Walker
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-06
    • Language: English
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    • This is the story of an important period in rock music, but also of the harsher results of the sixties....

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    • My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead
    • By: Steve Parish, Joe Layden - contributor, Bob Weir - foreword
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 254 ratings
    • Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during his childhood growing up in Flushing Meadow, Queens. Busted as a teenager for selling acid in the summer of 1968, Parish landed in Riker's Island....

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    • A History
    • By: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
    • Narrated by: Brian Corrigan, Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 196 ratings
    • The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the 20th century - based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019....

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