Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
Can't You Hear Me Calling
The Life Of Bill Monroe, Father Of Bluegrass
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Considering the range of stars that have claimed Bill Monroe as an influence-Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Jerry Garcia are just a few-it can be said that no single artist has had as broad an impact on American popular music as he did. For sixty years, Monroe was a star at the Grand Ole Opry, and...
He Is . . . I Say
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
He Is...I Say examines Neil Diamond's singular place in the pantheon of popular music. David Wild-who has written about Diamond for Rolling Stone, penned the liner notes to a number of Diamond's anthologies, and produced Diamond's scandal-free episode of Behind the Music. Now he dares to turn on his...
The Dark Stuff
Selected Writings On Rock Music Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
A smart, scathing look at the most hell-bent performers of our time: Here are profiles of everyone you'd expect (and a few you wouldn't)-Brian Wilson, Miles Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Sid Vicious, and Kurt Cobain. "Kent matters because he wrote about rock better than anyone before or since." -Tony Parsons, The Daily Telegraph
The Book of Drugs
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Mike Doughty first came to prominence as the leader of the band Soul Coughing then did an abrupt sonic left turn, much to the surprise of his audience, transforming into a solo performer of stark, dusky, but strangely hopeful tunes. He battled addiction, gave up fame when his old band was at the height...
Not Afraid
The Evolution of Eminem
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Whatever You Say I Am, chronicling the last 20 years of rapper Eminem's life, based on new, exclusive interviews with the artist, his friends, family, and associates.
In 1999, a former dishwasher from Detroit became the most significant, controversial,...
Ain't It Time We Said Goodbye
The Rolling Stones on the Road to Exile
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
For ten days in March 1971, the Rolling Stones traveled by train and bus to play two shows a night in many of the small theaters and town halls where their careers began. No backstage passes. No security. No sound checks or rehearsals. And only one journalist allowed. That journalist now delivers...
Tommy Dorsey
Livin' in a Great Big Way, A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Swing has never gone out of style. It was the music the Greatest Generation danced to--and went to war to. And no musician evokes the Big Band era more strikingly than Tommy Dorsey, whose soaring trombone play and hit tunes influenced popular music for a generation. Tommy Dorsey (1905-1956) led a...
Apathy for the Devil
A Seventies Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Chronicling Nick Kent's up-close , personal, often harrowing adventures with the Rolling Stones, Lester Bangs, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, the Sex Pistols, and Chrissie Hynde, among scores of others, Apathy for the Devil is a picaresque memoir that bears witness to the beautiful and the damned of this...
Heroes and Villains
Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The Beach Boys have been rolling, like the tide their great songs evoke, for more than thirty years, reaching professional peaks and tragic personal depths. In this electrifying account Steven Gaines reveals the gothic tale of violence, addiction, greed, genius, madness, and rock 'n' roll behind the...
Almost a Woman
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Following the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santiago delivers the tale of her young adulthood, where she continually strives to find a balance between...
The Turkish Lover
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Enthralled admirers of Esmeralda Santiago's memoirs of her childhood have yearned to read more. Now, in The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally breaks out of the monumental struggle with her powerful mother, only to elope into the spell of an exotic love affair. At the heart of the story is Esmeralda's...
Bop Apocalypse
Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The gripping story of the rise of early drug culture in America, from the author of the acclaimed Can't Find My Way Home
With an intricate storyline that unites engaging characters and themes and reads like a novel, Bop Apocalypse details the rise of early drug culture in America by weaving...
by Elliott Schwartz, Barney Childs, Jim Fox
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music-from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernacular, electronic, and non-Western influences. Featuring classic essays by Stravinsky, Stockhausen,...
I Am the Wolf
Lyrics and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
A collection of lyrics and autobiographical commentary by singer Mark Lanegan, with a preface by John Cale and a foreword by Moby
With a voice that Pitchfork has called "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather," former Screaming Trees and Queens...