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"The long-awaited, definitive book for lovers of the low-end. Willie G. Moseley, senior writer for Vintage Guitar Magazine, profiles more than one hundred historic and unique electric bass models from such makers as Alembic, Danelectro, Fender, Gibson, Gretsch, Guild, Hamer, Kram...

John Scofield is considered one of the most important and influential jazz guitarists and composers since he arrived on the scene in the mid seventies. A masterful improviser at the peak of his creative art, Scofield revisits today compositions & interpretations richly combining ...

A literary exhibition of 101 objects from across the Smithsonian's museums that together offer a marvelous new perspective on the history of the United States. Ranging from the earliest years of the pre-Columbian continent to the digital age, and from the American Revolution to V...

Outside of the United Kingdom, only the most obsessive music fans were aware of what was known as ' Pub Rock' during its brief heyday in the early to mid-1970s. But in England, Pub Rock was a important precursor to the punk and new wave scene; the Pub bands rejected the growing p...

"In 1968, Vashti Bunyan gave up everything and everybody she knew in London to take to the road with a horse, wagon, dog, guitar and her then partner. They made the long journey up to the Outer Hebrides in an odyssey of discovery and heartbreak, full of the joy of freedom and the...

In this deeply moving memoir, one of Canada' s most respected singer-songwriters traces his difficult, often tumultuous relationship with his father. From the time Dan Hill picked up a guitar at age 11, he tried to win the approval of Daniel Hill Sr., a man who has been called ...

New Zealander Justin Brown, the world's only door-to-door busker, had a bet one day with an Australian mate over the outcome of a rugby match between the All Blacks and the Wallabies. Whoever lost the bet would have to re-enact the most embarrassing thing they'd ever done. Justin...