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The cream of the crop of excellent articles from the out of print early issues of Shindig! Magazine -- with some of which are newly expanded -- and include additional photos and other redesigned touches for this deluxe book treatment -- hardcover bound, and beautifully so! Features on benchmark ...

All the articles from the out of print Volume early issues of Shindig! Magazine -- with additional photos and redesigned for this deluxe book treatment -- hardcover bound, and beautifully so! Features those excellent articles on class psychedelic, garage and other 60s & 70s titans -- including ...

The early days of hip hop -- captured in it's bedrock Bronx glory -- a beautiful visual history edited by Johan Kugelberg with contributions from photographer Joe Conzo, pivotal force Afrika Bambaataa, hip hop historian Jeff Chang and others! Born In The Bronx is really all about the visual detail ...

Greil Marcus goes long and deep with Dylan once again, here crafting, essentially, the biography of one song -- the ultra iconic "Like A Rolling Stone" -- a song that was revolutionary unto itself, but was served as a chronicle of the revolution of the world around it, and its writer! ...

A biography of one of the great artists of the 20th Century -- the hugely important jazz improvisation pioneer Dizzy Gillespie -- by jazz biographer Donald L Maggins. Maggins is as genuine a lover and promoter of classic jazz, having also written a bio of Stan Getz and working as jazz concert ...

Kind of a general price guide from the folks at Goldmine -- with listings for albums and singles from the 50s through the 80s -- presented with full details on label, catalog number, and year of release -- not to mention some pricing! The prices interest us less than the discographical details -- ...

A beautifully-done look at the cover art of Prestige Records -- quite possibly the nicest-packaged record art book we've seen to date! The hardcover volume is somewhat slim, but really puts a lot into presentation -- offering up vivid cover images of Prestige releases that start with the early ...

A wonderful tribute to the Impulse Records label -- one that's put together with as much graphic sensitivity as you'll find on the company's album covers of the 60s! The book is incredibly well researched -- both from archival material and over 50 interviews with artists and producers associated ...

A pretty hefty price guide -- one that features listings for 45s of all types -- from rock to pop to vintage soul -- with increased coverage of rare soul material for this 5th edition! There's pricing for each listing in a few different grades -- although we're always a bit reticent to endorse ...

A wonderful counterpart to the series of Japanese soundtrack CDs we've been stocking -- and a book that's filled with incredible images and a bonus CD of music! Although the book does have some details in English -- profiles of a few actresses and films in the Japanese "bad girl" genre ...

Lordy -- this is the kind of book we've been waiting for! This lovely little volume is a Japanese guide to funky 45s -- one put together by a team of funky collectors, but with input from experts in the field like Keb Darge, Muro, and DJ Shadow. The main section of the book breaks down the US ...

A soul stirring set of photographs, essays, notes on songs and sermons put together by the deep field recordings and all around rural America cultural archivists at Dust To Digital! Take Me To The Water gets to the heart and soul with the photographs, showing immersion baptisms from the early 20th ...

The complete Bob Dylan Discography put together by Brian Hinton -- an excellent resource for Dylan superfans and as a reference for the rest of us -- with commentary on each track, each individual player on the sessions, release dates and timing, collaborative efforts, and more! We're stunned by ...

We're huge country music fans here at Dusty Groove -- but are probably less up to snuff on releases than we are more familiar styles like jazz, funk, and soul -- which makes a book like this totally essential to our own record collecting! As with other Goldmine books, the prices should be taken ...

The second in the anthology project of the mighty Wax Poetics magazine -- Issues 6-10 of the deep funk, jazz, soul and hip hop journal of record -- an excellent run with pieces on 45 King, Eugene McDaniels, Sun Ra, Roy Ayers, Pete Rock, DJ Premier, Wilson Simonal, Eddie Bo, Oliver Sain, Willie ...

A heck of a discographical resource -- especially for rare 78s and obscure blues albums! The book really takes its rhythm & blues range pretty widely -- and runs from late 40s singles up to 12" releases from House Of Pain -- but for our money, the best bits here are the more classic ...

An amazing document of the New York club scene in the 70s -- a book that traces the week by week evolution of disco from the ground up -- with details of important releases, club changes, and more -- all the stuff of history by now, but shown here in its original building blocks! The book is based ...

The first 5 issues of the legendary Wax Poetics -- the one-and-only genius publication dedicated to the art of crate-digging, aka funky soul & hip hop vinyl archeology -- collected in this massive hardcover tome! Anthology Vol 1 tackles the essential chore of bringing those earliest Wax ...

Probably the deepest work ever devoted in print to the vaunted Basement Tapes -- with the great Greil Marcus comparing, contrasting and relating the many songs made in the Big Pink house in Woodstock, by Dylan and his group that would eventually be known as The Band , to the heritage of the ...

The definitive biography of the legendary Big Star by Rob Jovanovic -- progenitors of power pop and influential as they are gratifying in their own right! The group was only in official existence for a few years, but their impact was huge -- and the book is drawn from interviews with band members, ...

A great mix of music business and music culture -- coming together during the key years of Columbia Records, described here in detail by the author! The book is an incredible tribute to the power of Columbia back in the day -- from its rise during the early LP generation, the 50s Masterworks and ...

Damn right it's a hardbop academy -- as Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers was the initial springboard to fame for dozens of great jazz musicians of the past 40 years -- a good number of whom are featured in this book! We all remember well-known Messengers, like Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, or Bobby ...

An essential resource for fans of rare jazz albums -- an ultra-cool discography that's done in the same style as other Japanese books on American music -- but which focuses on rare bits from Japan! Like other volumes of this type, this one specially selects the coolest of the cool -- really ...

Partly a biography of some of our greatest jazz players, and also a meditation on the impact of racism on jazz music by Gene Lee -- a music and drama critic who got to know jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton & Nat King Cole over the years -- and actually built lifelong ...

A profile of the life and career of Richard Pryor -- weighing the character's the great comedian portrayed on screen and in his stage routine against the sensational evens in his life -- and the irony of his often being typecast in Hollywood as the types of characters he mercilessly (and ...

A retrospective of the influential designs of Kevin Lyons -- kind of a portfolio in book form -- and a beautiful, creative one at that! A book of t-shirt designs probably sounds crass and indulgent on impulse, but it's really an artistic endeavor, and you kind of need to thumb through the thing to ...

It's no secret to crate diggers that Japanese record buyers really take their job seriously -- and now here's a book to finally prove it! Record Buyer's Diary was put together by two Japanese record buyers as they travel the globe in search of the music they love -- and it features photos, ...

One of the best record cover art books we've seen -- a thick, large and eye popping collection of the work of Hipgnosis -- the design firm of choice for some of the biggest groups of the 60s & 70s! If we're not always the biggest fans of the most canonized rock album behemoths, the art work ...

One of the earliest ranges for any record price guide we've ever seen -- a book that starts at the beginning of the 20th Century, then stops right in the middle of the 60s! Most of the material here was issued only on 78rpm records -- although the book has some 45s and LPs too -- and the resource ...

A fascinating and straight up beautiful journey into the world of Sun Ra's early Chicago years with a focus on the visual -- a book full of amazing artifacts from Ra's El Saturn Records -- preliminary and finished sketches, album covers, used and unused artwork, production materials, show flyers ...

A a well chosen, ingeniously laid out book of 1000 Record Covers -- put together by author/photo archivist Michael Ochs -- an idea that might seem simple, but it's really a well thought and gorgeously assembled effort! The sections are separated by era, from the 60s, the 70s, and the 80s-90s -- ...

A well-done look at the life of Lester Young -- written by Brit jazz journalist Dave Gelly, who's probably best known for his book on Stan Getz, but who does an equally good job here! Gelly takes most of his material from press accounts, but fills in his own background too -- and manages to bring ...

The story of composer and songwriter Alec Wilder -- a fascinating book that finds Wilder detailing his life and self in a series of letters -- and while the addressees were unidentified upon the original publication, this annotated edition with an introduction and supplementental material by jazz ...

A much-needed look at a rare side of the music industry -- promo pressings of popular records, some of which have a host of unusual features! The book does a great job of covering almost 40 years of promos -- LPs, singles, and even CDs -- with full year details, catalog numbers, and projected ...

A great book that tracks the cooler side of club music over the past 20 years -- club jazz, drum n bass, house, hip hop, acid jazz, and more -- the kinds of grooves that we've always loved, and which are a lot better than what you'd find on a mainstream dancefloor! The book is like other Japanese ...

A nice little effort in the 33 1/3'd series of excellent profiles on classic, or underappreciated, should-be classic albums -- this one the on the great Notorious Byrd Brothers album by The Byrds! The author is an inspired choice -- Ric Menck, drummer for the wholly underrated 90s psyche pop ...

One of the deepest explorations of the disco era we've come across from author Peter Shapiro -- not at all a nostalgic look back, really more of a cultural study that looks into the music and the world around it. Shapiro does a great job of putting it all into perspective, from the social factors ...

A really great punk rock discography -- even if most of it is in Japanese! The style here is similar to the jazz discographies we stock from Japan -- reviews of each title in Japanese, but also cover images, artist, title, date, label, and catalog number all in English -- more than enough to make ...

A very thorough look at the life and music of Celia Cruz -- way more than just a quickie pop bio, and instead a well-researched book that covers the full span of her many years on this planet! The book starts with lots of details from Celia's early life in Cuba, then moves through her fame on the ...

A cool collection of album cover art by the French H5 design team -- lots of fresh art made for underground figures and more mainstream notable artists in the French electronic music scene of the 90s and beyond! The art is unique in its devotion typography as opposed to photography in a lot of ...

You've heard the music, now get the book! A beautiful, beautiful book by Beth Lesser, accompanying the excellent Dancehall compilations issued on Soul Jazz, a weighty tome loaded down with mountains of amazing large format photos, bios of artists, and a history of dance culture in Jamaica that ...

A book that definitely lives up to its title -- as it's essential reading if you're a fan of Neo Soul! Author Chris Campbell put together the volume as a great reference for digging into the contemporary soul underground -- a guide to the best artists working in the genre, laid out with page-by-pag ...

The story of Ray Charles and the Birth Of Soul! Author Mike Evans starts the story with Ray's difficult childhood and on through his unrivaled success blending styles indiscriminately across genre lines into his own unique soul sound. Evans spins the story from first hand interviews and quotes ...

Rare photographs of NYC graffiti writers -- authentically tagged in this book put together by Peter Sutherland & Revs! A never-before-seen document of the people and the artwork in NYC's graff scene. Features 323, AREA, ARTZ, CINIK, CLAW, COPE 2, JAKEE, LADY PINK, REHAB, REVS and more. ...

A celebration of The Man In Black from the editors of Rolling Stone -- with a forward by Roseanne Cash, and pieces from over the years by JR himself, David Fricke, Ralph Gleason, Greg Kot, Mark Binelli, Robert Hilbern, Steve Pond and Jancee Dunn. Includes articles that originally ran in Rolling ...

Another one of those nice little Japanese discography books, this time taking a swing at Jamaican Ska records. As with other titles, it's all in Japanese, but features lots of great color reproductions of covers, as well as some label and catalog number information. The text is pretty inclusive, ...

A wonderful Japanese book on the music of Lee Scratch Perry -- one that features plenty of full-color covers and discographical notes in English! The format's similar to some of the Japanese jazz discogs -- most text in Japanese, but plenty of images and English details throughout -- so that while ...

A great counterpart to the Sampling Dictionary -- one that offers up most of the same material, but in reverse! Like that volume, this one offers up a huge list of tracks that have been sampled by hip hop songs -- over 17,000 listings of different samples from the past few decades, presented in ...

The ambitious, yet user friendly effort to document the history of electronic music -- the book part of the multimedia Modulations project -- which also (separately) spawned a film and CDs. Editor Peter Shapiro assembles pieces penned by by connoisseurs and musicians and does a pretty decent job ...

Genius work from one of the true literary treasures of our Chicago hometown -- the mighty Studs Terkel, who spent many years on radio in the Windy City as well! The book brings together both sides of Terkel's passions -- as it features conversations with musicians featured on his radio show, ...