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Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
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3.24 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements
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4.55 avg rating — 4,499 ratings
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Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan
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4.29 avg rating — 1,318 ratings
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Girls Dance, Boys Fiddle
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter
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3.93 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
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Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance
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4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings
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I Am Not the Same Girl: Renewed
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Entertaining Women: Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West
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3.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
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3.99 avg rating — 1,106 ratings
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
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3.42 avg rating — 1,147 ratings
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Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
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3.77 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Red Hot and Blue: Fifty Years of Writing About Music, Memphis, and Motherf**kers
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4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
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4.47 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark (John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University)
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4.44 avg rating — 597 ratings
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When I left home: my story
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
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3.70 avg rating — 3,229 ratings
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
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4.10 avg rating — 846 ratings
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Theft: A History of Music
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3.82 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Wham! George & Me
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4.05 avg rating — 6,801 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.20 avg rating — 1,838,300 ratings
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Through the Fire
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
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4.11 avg rating — 2,252 ratings
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Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion
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3.76 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Music and the Armenian Diaspora: Searching for Home in Exile
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4.59 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Me
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4.32 avg rating — 71,930 ratings
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Your Playlist Can Change Your Life: 10 Proven Ways Your Favorite Music Can Revolutionize Your Health, Memory, Organization, Alertness and More
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3.21 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
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3.83 avg rating — 36,647 ratings
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Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock
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3.93 avg rating — 2,297 ratings
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Composed: A Memoir
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3.82 avg rating — 2,534 ratings
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My Opinion
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Something Beautiful: The Stories Behind a Half-Century of the Songs of Bill and Gloria Gaither
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4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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4.55 avg rating — 18,812 ratings
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Janis: Her Life and Music
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4.14 avg rating — 2,845 ratings
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Shaped Notes: How Ordinary People with Extraordinary Gifts Influenced My Life and Career
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4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
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4.17 avg rating — 1,783 ratings
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Music from the True Vine: Mike Seeger's Life & Musical Journey
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3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years In New York That Changed Music Forever
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3.90 avg rating — 2,672 ratings
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Born for This: My Story in Music
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3.82 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Beastie Boys Book
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4.53 avg rating — 14,166 ratings
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Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It
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3.46 avg rating — 1,549 ratings
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They're Playing Our Song: A Memoir
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3.96 avg rating — 765 ratings
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We Will Survive: True Stories of Encouragement, Inspiration, and the Power of Song
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3.44 avg rating — 532 ratings
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Immer Ärger mit dem Cello
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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I Hope You Dance: The Power and Spirit of Song
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3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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A Natural Woman: A Memoir
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3.78 avg rating — 5,467 ratings
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Mr. B: The Music and Life of Billy Eckstine
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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John Prine Beyond Words
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4.66 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Why Karen Carpenter Matters (Music Matters, #3)
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3.75 avg rating — 620 ratings
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Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir
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3.81 avg rating — 3,114 ratings
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John Prine: In Spite of Himself (American Music Series)
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3.69 avg rating — 357 ratings
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The Three of Us: Growing Up with Tammy and George
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3.99 avg rating — 441 ratings
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Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt
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4.01 avg rating — 839 ratings
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You Don't Cry Out Loud: The Lily Isaacs Story
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4.46 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers
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4.23 avg rating — 1,345 ratings
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Athens Potluck
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Voice: Listening For God's Voice and Finding Your Own
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4.37 avg rating — 320 ratings
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My Cross to Bear
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3.89 avg rating — 6,219 ratings
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Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, Georgia
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4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Song of Annie Moses: A Musical Quest, a Mother's Gift
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4.16 avg rating — 57 ratings
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One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
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4.26 avg rating — 1,340 ratings
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Nothing's Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon
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4.11 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Remembering Whitney: A Mother's Story of Life, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped
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3.99 avg rating — 1,782 ratings
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Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll
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4.07 avg rating — 4,322 ratings
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John Hartford's Mammoth Collection Of Fiddle Tunes
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Onions: Hitting the High Notes
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4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Bread: A Sweet Surrender: The Musical Journey of David Gates, James Griffin & Co.
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4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Round Peak Style Old Time Fiddle
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Whitney I Knew
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3.75 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Rhapsody in Black: The Life and Music of Roy Orbison
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3.94 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Fiddle From Scratch: An Un-Shuffled Guide for the Bowless!
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville
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3.64 avg rating — 849 ratings
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Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist
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4.13 avg rating — 261 ratings
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How Sweet the Sound (How Sweet the Sound, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Time of My Life: A Righteous Brother's Memoir
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4.07 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Elvis and Ginger: Elvis Presley's Fiancée and Last Love Finally Tells Her Story
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3.91 avg rating — 2,092 ratings
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Speaking for Ourselves: Conversations on Life, Music, and Autism
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4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story
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4.06 avg rating — 4,796 ratings
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Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me
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4.04 avg rating — 1,358 ratings
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Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
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3.88 avg rating — 20,850 ratings
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Listen but Don't Ask Question: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar across the TransPacific
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues
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4.41 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Reckless Daughter: A Joni Mitchell Anthology
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3.46 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
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3.76 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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Joni: The Anthology
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3.59 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World
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4.22 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Trouble In Mind: Bob Dylan’s Gospel Years - What Really Happened
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3.84 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913
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3.87 avg rating — 373 ratings
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David Bowie: A Life
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4.04 avg rating — 2,052 ratings
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Why Bob Dylan Matters
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3.74 avg rating — 1,343 ratings
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Seeing the Real You at Last: Life and Love on the Road with Bob Dylan
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3.39 avg rating — 103 ratings
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John Cohen: Here and Gone, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie & the 1960s
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Only Pirate at the Party
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4.14 avg rating — 5,564 ratings
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Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story
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3.95 avg rating — 1,115 ratings
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Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World
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4.08 avg rating — 3,343 ratings
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The Beatles in Comics!
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3.59 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Early Years, 1926–1966
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4.29 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Pressed for All Time: Producing the Great Jazz Albums from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday to Miles Davis and Diana Krall
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3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism
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3.78 avg rating — 115 ratings
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What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years
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4.32 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946
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4.30 avg rating — 219 ratings
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