Swing Shift

Swing Shift
Author: Sherrie Tucker
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822328179

The story, based on extensive individual interviews, of the women’s swing bands that toured extensively during World War II and after -- a kind of “League of their Own” for jazz.

Best of the Marshall Tucker Band

Best of the Marshall Tucker Band
Author: Marshall Tucker Band
Publisher: Play It Like It Is Guitar
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781575603957

(Play It Like It Is). This outstanding songbook features note-for-note transcriptions with tab for 9 classics from these Southern-rock pioneers from Spartanburg, SC: Blue Ridge Mountain Sky * Can't You See * Fire on the Mountain * Heard It in a Love Song * Hillbilly Band * Ramblin' * Searchin' for a Rainbow * Take the Highway * 24 Hours at a Time. Includes a bio of the band written by Spirit Music Group President Mark Fried, and John Stix's interview Inside the Guitars of The Marshall Tucker Band, originally printed in Circus .

The Tucker Band

The Tucker Band
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1992
Genre:
ISBN:

Robert Tucker was born about 1676 in Charles City County, Virginia. In 1698 he married Elizabeth Parham. In 1719 or 1720 he married Martha (Epps?) and settled on land in Amelia, County, Virginia where he died in 1750. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and elsewhere.

The Dirt

The Dirt
Author: Tommy Lee
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0062209817

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL MOVIE STARRING MACHINE GUN KELLY, DANIEL WEBBER, DOUGLAS BOOTH, AND IWAN RHEON, DIRECTED BY JEFF TREMAINE. Celebrate thirty years of the world's most notorious rock band with the deluxe collectors' edition of The Dirt—the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography of Mötley Crüe. Fans have gotten glimpses into the band's crazy world of backstage scandals, celebrity love affairs, rollercoaster drug addictions, and immortal music in Mötley Crüe books like Tommyland and The Heroin Diaries, but now the full spectrum of sin and success by Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil, and Mick Mars is an open book in The Dirt. Even fans already familiar with earlier editions of the bestselling exposé will treasure this gorgeous deluxe edition. Joe Levy at Rolling Stone calls The Dirt "without a doubt . . . the most detailed account of the awesome pleasures and perils of rock & roll stardom I have ever read. It is completely compelling and utterly revolting."

Show Biz the Big Band Way

Show Biz the Big Band Way
Author: Dare Tucker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre:
ISBN:

Show Biz: The Big Band Way Tommy Tucker and his Orchestra _____________________ A Memoir by his wife Dare This memoir by Dare Tucker describes the unusual experiences she and her husband had during their experience on the road as a major Big Band orchestra. After Dare married Tommy, she joined him and his popular band as they traveled back and forth across the country for many one-night or one-week stands. They stared out with cars to transport the many musicians, their instruments, the vocalists; the group eventually got so large they had to hire buses to make their way to the next gig. It's interesting to read Dare's observation of the scene. She describes in detail the variety of adjustments that bands had to make as they performed at theaters and adapted their activities so they could be successful at record making. Tommy's big hit, "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" was so well received it became a Gold record. Their daughter Trudy who published this notes: "What remains so curious to me is that the very same tricks they did on stage, during recordings, and on TV we continue to see every day as we watch talk shops on TV. "

Ellington

Ellington
Author: Mark Tucker
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780252065095

For nearly fifty years, Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington was one of America's most famous musicians. Tucker traces Ellington's childhood and young adult years in Washington, D. C. where he got his start as a ragtime pianist, and also draws on accounts from newspapers, periodicals, and trade publications.

Stuff You Should Know

Stuff You Should Know
Author: Josh Clark
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1250268516

From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew. Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious—curious about the world around them, curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations, and curious to dig deeper on stuff they thought they understood. As it turns out, they aren't the only curious ones. They've since amassed a rabid fan base, making Stuff You Should Know one of the most popular podcasts in the world. Armed with their inquisitive natures and a passion for sharing, they uncover the weird, fascinating, delightful, or unexpected elements of a wide variety of topics. The pair have now taken their near-boundless "whys" and "hows" from your earbuds to the pages of a book for the first time—featuring a completely new array of subjects that they’ve long wondered about and wanted to explore. Each chapter is further embellished with snappy visual material to allow for rabbit-hole tangents and digressions—including charts, illustrations, sidebars, and footnotes. Follow along as the two dig into the underlying stories of everything from the origin of Murphy beds, to the history of facial hair, to the psychology of being lost. Have you ever wondered about the world around you, and wished to see the magic in everyday things? Come get curious with Stuff You Should Know. With Josh and Chuck as your guide, there’s something interesting about everything (...except maybe jackhammers).

Where the Devil Don't Stay

Where the Devil Don't Stay
Author: Stephen Deusner
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1477323937

In 1996, Patterson Hood recruited friends and fellow musicians in Athens, Georgia, to form his dream band: a group with no set lineup that specialized in rowdy rock and roll. The Drive-By Truckers, as they named themselves, grew into one of the best and most consequential rock bands of the twenty-first century, a great live act whose songs deliver the truth and nuance rarely bestowed on Southerners, so often reduced to stereotypes. Where the Devil Don’t Stay tells the band’s unlikely story not chronologically but geographically. Seeing the Truckers’ albums as roadmaps through a landscape that is half-real, half-imagined, their fellow Southerner Stephen Deusner travels to the places the band’s members have lived in and written about. Tracking the band from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Richmond, Virginia, to the author’s hometown in McNairy County, Tennessee, Deusner explores the Truckers’ complex relationship to the South and the issues of class, race, history, and religion that run through their music. Drawing on new interviews with past and present band members, including Jason Isbell, Where the Devil Don’t Stay is more than the story of a great American band; it’s a reflection on the power of music and how it can frame and shape a larger culture.

Nickel Dreams

Nickel Dreams
Author: Tanya Tucker
Publisher: Hyperion
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1998-05-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780786889365

Tanya chronicles her rise to the top of country music fame, and tells her story about her struggle up from poverty. She became a country music superstar as an adult but not without going through some painful struggles. She talks about her eventual addiction and struggle with cocaine, her infamous brutal affair with Glen Campbell, and tells stories of other celebrities, such as Waylon Jennings, Tammy Wynette, Elvis Presley, Don Johnson, Andy Gibb, Cher, and Clint Eastwood.