Texas is the honorary home of roadhouse music, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan its uncrowned king. More than just a biography and musical exploration of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Roadhouse Blues tells the stories of the great Texan musicians that came before him and influenced him so deeply. It puts in context Stevie Ray's rise to fame – including the part played by his family, his friends, his heroes (like Jimi Hendrix), and his addiction to drink and drugs – as well as the lasting impact that his brief but turbulent life and work had on his contemporaries, and on later generations of blues fans and guitar players.

Roadhouse Blues: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Texas R&B

Gregory, Hugh

Humor & Entertainment

BACKBEAT UK

Indispensible to anyone interested in recording or broadcasting music, this practical, comprehensive guide to digital audio explains the advanced concepts behind the equipment, focusing on underlying theories rather than individual pieces of equipment.

Digital Audio Explained: A Practical Resource for Recording, Mixing, and Broadcasting

Nika Aldrich

Reference

Hip-hop is the biggest youth movement in the world today, and leading the way is the new sound of the South, exemplified by platinum and multi-platinum artists like OutKast, Lil Jon &amp; The East Side Boyz, Ludacris, Ying Yang Twins and 8Ball and MJG. This fascinating book reveals where Dirty South hip-hop came from and where it's heading. It explores the hopes, struggles, and frustrations of performers and producers, and guides you to the best in Southern hip-hop on CD and DVD, in magazines, and on the web. If you want to know where the South is taking music, you need this book. Includes foreword by Mississippi rapper David Banner.

Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip-Hop

Palmer, Tamara

This book is an essential manual of techniques for recording a song. It explores arranging essentials such as grouping instruments effectively, using multi-track recording, artfully layering parts, achieving a good mix, and creating unusual arrangements using common techniques. The accompanying CD illustrates all of the techniques presented in the book. Guitar chord boxes are included for the CD tracks where appropriate.

Arranging Songs: How to Put the Parts Together

Rikky Rooksby

The Piano Improvisation Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the practical skills and theoretical issues involved in mastering all forms of piano improvisation, including classical, jazz, rock and blues. Whereas most books offer little more than models for imitation and exercises for practicing, this one adopts an approach specifically designed to encourage and enable independent creative exploration. The book contains a series of graded tutorial sections with musical examples on CD, as well as an appendix listing useful scales, chords, voicings, and progressions across all keys, a bibliography, and a discography. In addition to sections outlining how melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, and form work in improvised piano music, giving distinctive emphasis to the interconnectedness of classical and jazz improvisation, there are sections devoted to explaining how ideas can be developed into continuous music and to exploring the process of finding a personal style.

The Piano Improvisation Handbook

Humphries, Carl

Sunburst: How the Gibson Les Paul Standard Became a Legendary Guitar

Bacon, Tony

Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'N' Roll Survivor

Kooper, Al

This book traces the history and story of the remarkable and unique Rickenbacker guitars. Rare, unusual and outstanding Rickenbacker models are shown in specially commissioned full-color photographs, and meticulous listings for the collector detail all the company's electric guitars from 1932 to 1994. Essential reading for players and collectors. 7-1/2 inch. x 9-3/4 inch.. Hardcover

The Rickenbacker Book (Profile Series) (Guitar Profile)

Tony Bacon

Paul Day

Featuring more than 150 specially commissioned photographs, a survey of the development of the piano from the 1700s to the present day, with information on the workings of the piano, an A-Z of makers, a discography and details of composers, musicians and personalities connected with the piano.

Piano : Evolution, Design and Performance

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