Biography & Autobiography, Composers & Musicians
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You Did What?
The Unusual Musical Odyssey of Burl Ronald Brinnon by Ron Brinnon
At the fresh age of fifteen, Ron Brinnon launches his professional saxophone career and plays gigs that land him amid a hotbed of Russian missiles, an FBI chase, and a levitation session with Depak Chopra. Performing for greats like Desi Arnaz,...
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Solidarity Forever
The Art and Soul of Stevie Van Zandt by Robert Lawson
Solidarity Forever is the definitive account of the musical journey of the music legend of Disciples of Soul, Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, and anti-apartheid project Sun City fame, Little Steven Van Zandt. Following Van Zandt’s...
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In A Life
A memoir peppered with stories of a lucky life in music and Bum Ticker adventures by Steve Goldberger
Steve Goldberger has been a working musician and recording artist for fifty-plus years. In his book In a Life: A Memoir Peppered with Stories of a Lucky Life in Music and Bum Ticker Adventures, Steve shares his personal stories from being in a...
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Magic In The Music
The C-Weed Band Story by Errol Ranville and Wally Ranville
In the 1980s, Manitoba country-rock group The C-Weed Band scored a half dozen Top Ten hits on the country music charts beginning with their #1 hit single "Evangeline". As an Indigenous band, they broke ground for other Indigenous artists on the...
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Journeys to the Bandstand
Thirty Jazz Lives in Vancouver by Chris Wong
What I didn’t know [when starting to research and write this book]: I would become full-on, hopelessly obsessed with finding out every arcane detail about the artists gathered in these pages, whether they are living or long gone. Those myriad...
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So Innocently
by G.C. Koudelka
Growing up in Sask. The trails and times of the time spent learning the "ropes" of life. Travelling to France and Africa and starting to play music for money. At this point I travelled back to Toronto, Canada, and worked as a songwriter until I...
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The Tenacity of a Wandering Warrior
Guy Marchi Memoirs by Guy Marchi
Some life stories beggar belief . . . even those of people we may yet to hear of. In this astonishing memoir, author Guy Marchi recounts the truly extraordinary story of his life. Born and raised in small-town British Columbia, Marchi’s...
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Doug and The Slugs
50,000 Slug Fans Can't be Wrong by John Burton
John Burton is a co-founding member of the notorious band Doug and The Slugs. Introduced to Doug Bennett by John ‘Wally’ Watson in the summer of 1977, Doug and the author quickly formed the personal and musical chemistry that led to the meteoric...
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Us and Them
Canada, Canadians and The Beatles by John Robert Arnone
Us and Them chronicles the depth to which Canada and Canadians were part of The Beatles’ story—their formation, growth and break up. Entertaining and well researched, Us and Them places John, Paul, George and Ringo as a band and as solo artists...
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Beach Music
Stories of a Barbershop Quartet by André Brillaud
Beach Music: Stories of a Barbershop Quartet is a collection of fun, memorable, and entertaining vignettes from the fifteen years author André Brillaud has been a member of the barbershop quartet, Beach Music. The group “sang on beaches, boats,...
