Artist Biographies and Music History Books from Jawbone Press
Strange Brew
This definitive look at the British
blues explosion centers around
three guitarists: Peter Green, Mick
Taylor, and Eric Clapton. Describ-
ing the groups they played in
from 1965 to 1970, the book is
presented in an engaging day-
by-day format. With a wealth of
illustrations and never-before-
published details.
00331498 ...........................$29.95
Beatles for Sale
The book details the ups and
downs of the group as they
promoted, advertised, and sold
records, played concerts, sold
merchandise, made films, and set
up publishing and record companies of their own. It is a story of
naivety and greed, inexperience
and luck, gullibility and ingenuity.
00331978 ......................... $19.95
Metal: The Definitive Guide
Combining biography, critical
analysis, and detailed reference
sections, it profiles all the major
heavy metal artists as well as a
huge selection of other niche acts
from around the world. Metal:
The Definitive Guide includes new
firsthand interviews with many
major metal musicians and de-
tailed discographies.
00331757 ............................ $27.95
Million Dollar Les Paul
The original sunburst Gibson
Les Paul is the most celebrated
electric guitar of all time. This
book by renowned historian Tony
Bacon explores why these instruments have become so desirable.
It takes readers from a factory in
Kalamazoo, through the British
blues scene of the ’60s, to today’s
salesrooms and concert stages.
00332393 ..........................$19.95
riot on Sunset Strip
From the moment The Byrds debuted at Ciro’s in March of ’65
up to the demonstrations of 1966,
clubs on the Strip nurtured and
broke The Doors, Love, Buffalo
Springfield, The Standells, The Mamas & The Papas, and many others.
This book captures the excitement
of this great artistic awakening and
explains its tragic disappearance.
00331759 ...........................$29.95
The 100 Greatest
Metal Guitarists
As well as celebrating the classic
metal musicians who’ve defined
the scene since the ’70s, this book
delves deep into thrash metal,
death metal, black metal, doom
metal to unearth those players for
whom no tremolo divebomb is too
high, and no tuning is too low.
00332394 ..........................$22.95
Million Dollar Bash
In this new book, musician and
author Sid Griffin examines the
recordings in detail, demonstrating on every page a musician’s insight into the Basement Tapes, the
men who recorded them, and the
times in which they were made.
Every Dylan fan needs this book.
00331760 ...........................$19.95
So You Want to Be a
rock’n’roll Star
Drawing on hundreds of lost and
previously undiscovered sources,
not to mention a wealth of pre-
viously unseen photos, it is a
gripping chronicle of the life and
times of this seminal band.
00332395 ..........................$29.95
Bowie in Berlin
Bowie fled Los Angeles in 1975 and
ended up in Berlin, the divided city
on the frontline between communist East and capitalist West. There
he sought anonymity, taking an
apartment in a run-down district
with his sometime collaborator
Iggy Pop, while they explored the
city and its notorious nightlife.
00331977 ...........................$19.95
Hot Burritos
Hot Burritos is the first ever biography of the band, as told to writer
John Einarson by founding Bur-rito Chris Hillman and other group
members and associates.
00332396 ..........................$19.95
White Light/White Heat
Noted rock historian Richie Un-
terberger analyses the band’s
career and influence in detail,
drawing on many new interviews
with band members and associ-
ates, and a vast knowledge of the
music of the times. The result is
a comprehensive, articulate, im-
mensely detailed history – the
most thorough work on the band
yet published.
00332837 ..........................$29.95
To Live is to Die
Cliff’s life was short but influential;
his death was sudden and shocking. With his death, Metallica’s
most critically acclaimed period
of activity ended. They went on
to record huge-selling albums,
but by their own admission, never
pushed the creative envelope as
radically as they had done in the
first four years of their career.
00332838 ..........................$19.95
The impossible Dream
Drawing on decades of archive
interviews with the band (some
previously unpublished), and
many new interviews with backing musicians, record label staff
and producers, The Impossible
Dream is the definitive telling of
The Walker Brothers’ story.
00332874 ..........................$19.95
Bill Bruford –
The Autobiography
Bill Bruford – once called “the
godfather of progressive-rock
drumming” – has been at the top
of his profession for four decades,
playing with Yes, King Crimson,
Genesis, Earthworks, and many
more. The Autobiography is his
memoir of life at the heart of prog
rock, art rock, and modern jazz.
00332836 ..........................$19.95
Jack Bruce -
Composing Himself
His has been an often troubled life
– heroin addiction, family tragedy,
and a failed liver transplant – all
of which he speaks about frankly
in this book, telling a story that is
sometimes inspirational, some-
times bleak, and always honest.
00332875 ............................. $19.95
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