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A guide to essential Old School Rap & Hip Hop from team at the indespensible All Music Guide -- featuring more than 500 music reviews of important records by Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC, NWA, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy and so much more -- plus reviews on soul and funk LPs that were ...

Rock & roll tales from Josh Alan Friedman -- cutting through the myths and telling true stories of storied artists and pivotal music figures in rock, blues and beyond from the past half century! Includes chapters on Jerry Lieber, Doc Pomus, Mose Allison, Dr John, Rick Sykes & The Rhythm ...

The massive All Music Guide To Rock -- The Definitive Guide To Rock, Pop And Soul (3rd Edition) -- featuring reviews of thousands and thousands albums as rated and reviewed by the exceptional All Music Guide writers! The book is an encyclopedia of pop music from the 50s to the early 00s -- and an ...

A tribute to the great Jack Lemmon from his son, Chris Lemmon -- sharing family stories, personal reminiscences, and anecdotes from and about Jack Lemmon. Includes first person tributes from Black Edwards, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Neil Simon, Shirley MacLaine and others. Forward by Kevin ...

A deep look at a pretty cool little label -- Trumpet Records of Jackson, Mississippi -- a company born in the back of a hardware store! Trumpet only flourished for a few short years, but put out some wonderful stuff -- work by Elmore James, Little Milton, Sonny Boy Williamson, and others -- ...

The heady life and even hipper music of Sly Stone -- told here by an author who managed to get Stone's participation on the project! The book focuses most strongly on Sly's rise to fame and key late 60s/early 70s years -- a time when his records not only changed the face of soul music, but also ...

Punk rock trivia galore -- a book that's somewhere in between the Ego Trip volumes from the hip hop world, and the original Book Of Lists from the 70s! Given that Dick Manitoba, of The Dictators, is on board to put the thing together, you can bet that the book's pretty fun -- and if that's not ...

The evolution of underground rock, on a nearly day-by-day basis -- an amazingly big book that details famous moments, concerts, records, and other events -- listing them out, in historical order, from the release of The Stooges' Funhouse in August of 1970, through Husker Du's Everything Falls Apart ...

Here's the book that's going to help you win plenty of arguments when it comes to The Monkees -- the volume that will get past the easy, obvious answers that everyone else uses to talk about their music! The book's exactly what it promises -- a day-by-day look at the group's famous late 60s years - ...

Rock music in the 1970s -- pulled apart, and laid out in chapters that trace its changes and evolution on a year by year basis! Frank Moriarty's approach is surprisingly detailed -- making the volume much more than the simple "yearbook" that you might expect from the title -- and he's ...

The title's a bit cheesy, but the book really looks great -- a wealth of vintage photos, both color and black & white -- laid out with lots of historical detail too! The book's not the end-all for rockabilly -- and really just sticks to bigger stars who are more rock, than "billy" -- ...

Cool vintage photographs from William "Popsie" Randolph -- a photographer who's captured some great shots of jazz musicians, singers, soul groups, and other artists from the 40s through the 70s! The book jumps right into the photos right away -- and reproduces them in brilliant black and ...

A cool little book that brings together years and years of Miles Davis news, interviews, and features from Downbeat Magazine -- a collection that distills Davis appearances in the magazine from the 40s through the 90s, saving you a heck of a lot of work looking up the articles on their own! The ...

Really unusual jazz photographs from Larry Fink -- not the kind of over-hashed, too-iconic images that usually fill up books like this -- but cool candid shots, unusual performance moments, and even some abstracted shots that certainly keep things interesting! The book begins somewhere in the late ...

Words and photos from Tom Wright -- a pretty great photographer who chronicled the inside lives of some legendary rockers back in the 60s and 70s -- most famously The Who, but a host of others as well! The book features Wright's great photos from back in the day, plus lots of inside reflections on ...

Our hats are off to Dave for being so honest -- and we'll bet there's a lot of you out there who can appreciate his proud, personal take on the music! The book's as polemical as its title, and Thompson really lays out his ideas in the chapter headings -- which include "Is That A Bustle In ...

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 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 ...

A wonderful book for fans of deep soul -- a Japanese discography that features essential listening both on original 45s and on CD! The first half of the book is an amazing overview of deep soul 45s -- one that features listings for hundreds of rare singles -- with artist, titles, label, dates, and ...

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 ...

East Bay Dragons Motorcycle Club founder Tobie Gene Levingston shines a lot a the African American biker movement -- an underdocumented culture, in the maintstream, anyway -- through his personal experiences and life in the movement! Levingston is the son of a southern sharecropper, who grew to be ...

The originals of 20th Century country music -- not Willie, Cash and Haggard, earlier -- wayback, including noted progenitors like Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family, Ernest Tubb, and Gene Autry, but going back even earlier to the ones who brought barn dance and back porch hillbilly tunes into big ...

Jazz writer and wheeler deeler Leonard Feather's posthumously released Biographical Encyclopedia Of Jazz -- completed in the years after his death with project partner and former Down Beat editor Ira Gitler -- a nice reference and and extention of the Encyclopedia Of Jazz volumes of the previous ...

An anthology of hip hop art & graphics compiled by designer Cey Adams -- from street art, to snapshots of the NYC underground from the end of the 60s through the 80s, pivotal album cover art, hip hop in the worlds of advertising and film, fashion and more! Loads of classic hip hop imagery, ...

The groundbreaking hip hop culture magazine may be long gone, but the endearingly cynical, satirical, bitter yet undeniably realistic voice of Sacha Jenkins and Ego Trip contributers and collaborators is alive and well in their Big Book Of Racism! Chapters include "Disgracism", "Get ...

An incredible collection of revolutionary jazz album cover art from the 60s & 70s -- bold, vivid and unforgettable art for bold, vivid and unforgettable jazz -- compiled and edited by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker! It's a snapshot of an era in jazz music when cultural and stylistic ...

A treasure trove for fans of all things funky -- and one of the coolest books of rare records we've ever seen! The Japanese book is a dictionary of rare groove classics from the 60s and 70s -- listing hundreds of rare albums in alphabetical order, and featuring full color cover art, label and date ...

An essential guide to the hippest in jazz from the 60s, 70s, and 80s -- a wonderful book that specializes in underground spiritual jazz recordings! The volume is similar to other Japanese discographies we've carried -- with images of record covers, session dates, titles, and player information -- ...

A key guide to all things hip and jazzy for the dancefloor -- the kind of a book that will unlock a huge amount of new music for you -- and which has even our eyes popping at the rare delights contained within! The format is similar to some of the recent Japanese discographies we've been stocking - ...

An amazing guide to some of the hippest jazz ever released -- a wealth of great albums from the 50s and 60s -- not just from the US, but from England, Italy, Germany, and many other global locales! As with other volumes in this series, the discography focuses on rare bits that have a strong ...

A weird title, but a cool little book -- one that's kind of a rock/leftfield counterpart to some of the Japanese jazz discographies we've been stocking! As you might guess from the title, there's a pretty cosmic bent to the book -- and it's an attempt to list key records that inform a spacier, ...

One of the hippest books of album covers you could ever hope to find -- a great antidote to the snoozier mainstream takes on the genre they try to pass off at big stores every Christmas! This one features super-rare album covers hand-picked by an array of staff and writers for Wax Poetics -- some ...

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 ...

A great look at the life and music of one of the most influential saxophonists of the past 50 years -- the mighty Wayne Shorter, profiled here in quite a bit of depth! The book looks past Shorter's famous records into the life that allowed them to exist -- chronicling Wayne's roots and family, ...

The rich history of hip hop culture and folklore keeps growing in print thanks to a number of essential books of photographs -- and here's one from the legendary Ricky Powell! Rick takes a far different approach than books like Martha Cooper's Hip Hop Files, but it's very interesting in it's own ...

A cool little guide to all things club jazz -- put together by Shuya Okino of Kyoto Jazz Massive, and featuring both record listings and writings! The record listing section is a fair bit smaller than other Japanese books like this that we stock -- about 40 pages that show how you might build a ...

A photographic memoir of punk from photographer Rikki Ercoli -- who shot the most pivotal figures of first wave punk, new wave, and other icons of underground culture -- mostly performance footage and beautiful black & white! Includes shots of The Clash, Richard Hell, Siouxsie And The Banshees ...

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 ...

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 ...

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! ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...