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A Musical Medley BULLITT COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY PATHFINDERS 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: Books, Movies, and More on Your Favorite Subjects A Listener’s Life List by Tom Moon 016.78026 MOON Songwriter’s Market Musician Bios Nonfiction section: 070.5 SONG (2013) Adele: A Celebration of an Icon and Her Reference: R 070.5 SONG (2014) Music by Sarah-Louise James B ADEL How Music Works: The Science and Fiction & Nonfiction for Music Lovers Pyschology of Beautiful Sounds, from The Soloist : A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by John Powell 781 POWE by Steve Lopez B AYER / e-audio Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Mas- terpiece by Michael Streissguth B CASH by Oliver Sacks 781.11 SACK / e-book Examines the healing and redemptive powers of mu- I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen sic for patients, musicians, and everyday people. by Sylvie Simmons B COHE The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Chronicles: Volume I by Bob Dylan B DYLA Music: From Adele to Ziggy, the Real A to Z Don Kirshner: The Man with the Golden Ear: How of Rock and Pop He Changed the Face of Rock and Roll by Dylan Jones 781.64092 JONE by Rich Podolsky B KIRS Punk Rock Etiquette: The Ultimate How-To Can’t You Hear Me Callin’: The Life of Bill Monroe, Guide for DIY, Punk and Underground Father of Bluegrass Bands by Michael Richard D. Smith B MONR by Travis Nichols 781.66023 NICH Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason B PINK The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Great- est Songs from Punk to the Present Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a edited by Scott Plagenhoef and Ryan Schreiber Guitar Man Out of Me by Brad Paisley B PAIS 781.6609 PITC Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed 33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of by Paul Trynka B POP Protest Songs, From Billie Holiday to Green The Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Day The Carter Family: Don’t Forget this Song Elvis Presley by Frank Young 751.642092 YOUN by Dorian Lynskey 782.42 LYNS by Peter Guralnick B PRES Uniquely illustrated biography of the first Don't Stop Believin': How Karaoke Con- superstar group of country music, includes a quered the World and Changed My Life CD of original Carter Family recordings. by Brian Raftery 782.42164 RAFT / e-audio Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Check our online catalog for more! Carly Simon and the Journey of a Genera- tion by Sheila Weller 782.42164092 WELL Is there a subject you’d like to learn more about? If you Explore. Learn. Enjoy. There Goes Gravity have suggestions for future pathfinders, let us know! by Lisa Robinson On order Marianne: [email protected] An insider’s 40 years of behind-the-scenes access Reference Services Rhonda: [email protected] documents some of the major personalities of rock Revised May 2014 and roll. www.bcplib.org Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going Music Fiction Troy, a depressed seventeen-year-old weighing nearly Movies 300 lbs., is on the verge of suicide when a homeless Beige by Cecil Castellucci teen who also happens to be a guitar genius recruits Troy for his band. J GOIN / e-audio Quiet, polite Katy doesn’t know how she will adapt to Amadeus life in L.A. when her mother sends her from Canada Brilliant, funny, and suspenseful dramatiza- to live with her father, a recovered addict and mem- Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes tion of the rivalry between Mozart and his ber of the punk band Suck. J CAST Members of a fictional legendary rock band reflect on musical nemesis, Antonio Salieri. BLU-RAY how they came together in high school as outcasts August Rush Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon thrown together in detention and formed a band to A young music prodigy who hears music all around him goes compete in the school talent show. J HUGH Brokeland Records, a vintage vinyl store specializing in in search of his parents. Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell. DVD jazz, blues, and R&B, is just barely making ends meet. When "the fifth richest black man in America" an- Heavy Metal & You by Christopher Krovatin Cadillac Records nounces his intention to build a mega media store Sam, a devotee of heavy metal music, falls hard for a Behind-the-scenes true story of the development of Chess nearby, its days appear to be numbered. FIC CHAB straight-edge girl who doesn’t approve of his friends, Records in the 1950s. Adrien Brody, Beyonce Knowles. DVD his lifestyle, or his love of metal music. Eddie and the Cruisers Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist J KROV A 60s band is rediscovered decades after their only album, by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan and rumors spread about a “lost” album and the lead singer’s mysterious suicide. Tom Berenger, Michael Paré. DVD Nick and Norah meet, argue, and talk music as they Yellow Flag by Robert Lipsyte scour New York City for a missing friend and their A sixteen-year-old trumpet player is conflicted when Immortal Beloved favorite underground band. he is brought into his family’s NASCAR racing busi- Addresses the mystery of Beethoven’s secret love and imagi- FIC COHN / e-audio / e-book ness—taking him away from his musical pursuits— nes the inspiration for several of his works. Gary Oldman, and he must choose between two love interests. Jeroen Krabbé. DVD Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan J LIPS The Hot-Time Swingers, a once legendary six-piece Love for Levon: A Benefit to save the Barn A 2012 tribute concert to the late Levon Helm of The Band, German-American multiracial jazz ensemble gigging in The Facades by Eric Lundgren featuring musicians who worked with him or were influenced Berlin on the eve of WWII, are torn apart after one When a mezzo-soprano star of the local opera disap- by him. DVD member is arrested by the Gestapo. FIC EDUG pears, her worrywart husband must explore the depths of a bizarre and labyrinthine city for clues to Once Adios to My Old Life by Caridad Ferrer her whereabouts. FIC LUND Magical, musical film about the chance meeting of two Indie musicians and their resulting collaboration. DVD As seventeen-year-old Ali Montero competes on a popular music reality show seeking the next Latin Born Blue by Han Nolan The Pianist superstar, she must deal with pressure, sabotage, and An intense novel of abuse and survival of a teen who True story of a Jewish pianist who hid in Warsaw during first romance. J FERR dreams of one day becoming the next Etta James. For World War II. Adrien Brody. DVD mature readers only; contains profanity and some The Blue Door by David Fulmer sexually explicit scenes. FIC NOLA Purple Rain Semi-autobiographical film of a young musician struggling to Eddie, a boxer and music aficionado, is embroiled in an advance his career while dealing with personal crises. Prince. investigation involving a Philadelphia soul singer. The Song Is You by Arthur Phillips DVD MYS FULM Not even his beloved music can comfort Julian—until he is inspired by a young Irish rock singer on the rise. Speak the Music: Robert Mann and the Mysteries FIC PHIL of Chamber Music The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway Ninety-three-year-old violinist Robert Mann shares personal After a devastating mortar attack, a musician plays, anecdotes from his childhood and musical training, including affecting others and drawing the notice of a sniper. his fifty years with the Juilliard String Quartet. DVD Under the Baseball Moon by John H. Ritter FIC GALL / e-audio / e-book 20 Feet from Stardom When skateboarding trumpeter Andy Ramos falls for his childhood nemesis, now a talented softball player, Documentary looking at the careers of Middle C by William H. Gass they bring out the best in each other in a way that is backup singers; “Some of the greatest vo- Joseph Skizzen's family fled from Austria to London in almost mystical. J RITT calists you never heard of.” DVD 1938, but then his father abandoned the family. They then relocated to an unwelcoming American Midwest where Joseph grew up to be a decent piano player but An Equal Music by Vikram Seth Walk the Line Two gifted musicians, separated in the past, are reu- Award-winning biopic of Johnny Cash star- a disturbed man with a single joy — his museum, the ring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese With- Inhumanity Museum. FIC GASS / e-book nited by a concert tour—though secrets still linger. FIC SETH erspoon. DVD .
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