MBR: The Music Shelf

The Music Shelf

Like Me
Chely Wright
Pantheon
c/o Random House
1745 Broadway, 17th floor, New York, NY 10019
9780307378866, $25.95, www.pantheonbooks.com

LIKE ME: CONFESSIONS OF A HEARTLAND COUNTRY SINGER provides a fine
memoir of Chely Wright's life and career growing up in America's
heartland. From her determination to become a country music singer to
her early knowledge of her desires for women, she writes of country
music associations, experiences, and friendships. A fine pick for
music and general lending libraries alike.

Shelter from the Storm
Sid Griffin
Jawbone
1700 - 4th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
9781906002275, $19.95, www.jawbonepress.com

SHELTER FROM THE STORM: BOB DYLAN'S ROLLING THUNDER YEARS offers a
survey of a specific time in Dylan's life, when his Rolling Thunder
Revue, a gypsy caravan troupe, re-invented the traveling troubadour
tradition and delivered amazing live performances to audiences across
the country. During this time his personal life became shambles even
as his career was expanding to enter the acting realm. Musician and
author Sid Griffin covers all aspects of these years in a survey
that's a 'must' for any Dylan fan and collection covering his life and
times.

Chicago Jazz and Then Some
Jean Porter Dmytryk
BearManor Media
PO Box 71426, Albany, GA 31708
9781593935368, $19.95, www.bearmanormedia.com

The world of jazz has created a community all of its own. "Chicago
Jazz and Then Some, as told by one of the original Chicagoans, Jess
Stacy" looks into the history of Chicago Jazz through the eyes of Jess
Stacy. Writer Jean Porter Dmytryk tells Stacy's stories of the old
days of Jazz and gives readers an exciting and thought provoking
history of the music's scene over the decades. "Chicago Jazz and Then
Some" is a must for any Jazz fan or Chicago music fan.

For the Parlor & The Concert Stage
Keith Ward
Pendragon Press
PO Box 190, Hillsdale, NY 12529
9781576471883, $48.00, www.amazon.com

The piano is often associated with European composers, but Americans
have made their own impact with the instrument. "For the Parlor & The
Concert Stage" looks at the history of piano music and its composers
in American history. Looking how American piano music began to take
form, at historical pieces in the past few hundred ears, the
advancement of technique, the people who have composed this music and
the people who are composing it today. "For the Parlor & the Concert
Stage" is a must for anyone studying the history and relevance of
piano music in America, in the past and the present.

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