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The Beach Boys – day by day, year by year, presented in a very compelling diary format that really gets past some of the overblown mythos about the group! Author Badman goes for a "just the facts" sort of approach – and lists key days in the group's career from the 60s onward... read more

A heavy duty gospel music encyclopedia – named for the hymn Uncloudy Day and chronicling the careers of hundreds and hundreds of gospel artists and personalities from 1900 to the present day! It's a wonderful resource, put together by Bil Carpenter, who has written about soul, pop and gospel... read more

A great overview of the sound of surf music on the west coast – a surprisingly detailed volume that really fills in a lot of gaps in our knowledge of the genre – which can often be a bit oblique, due to a lack of studio and session details on the original records! Kent Crowley traces... read more

Some of the greatest albums in rock and roll are those that were never released – including some that finally saw the light of day after decades, like the Beach Boys' Smile! This book really gets at that fact beautifully – showing how, although never issued, some of these key creative... read more

Pat Martino tells his story – a wonderfully long run of jazz experience that starts in the heady days of the 60s soul jazz scene, moves into key psychedelic modes, suffers a bit of tragedy in later years, then springs wonderfully back more recently! Pat's got help from a co-writer on the... read more

A really heavy duty book on Led Zeppelin – one that's as big as an oversized volume of photos, but also includes a rich amount of text, too! There's a great array of vintage black and white photos in the book – lots of candid and backstage images we've never seen before – all... read more