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|  | | Freebirds: The Lynyrd Skynyrd Story
An in-depth look at Southern Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd
Based on one-on-one interviews with members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, their families, their friends, their business associates, and their fans, Freebirds: The Lynyrd Skynyrd Story examines the roots, evolution, and eventual emergence into world renown of one of the most hard rocking, hard living bands in music history – a group fueled by rock-and-roll fury but crippled by fate.
Material for Freebirds was derived from such primary sources as interviews with past and present Skynyrd members Ed King, Johnny Van Zant, Artimus Pyle, Billy Powell, Rickey Medlocke, Leon Wilkeson, and Hughie Thoma | |  | | Happier Days: Paramount Television's Golden Sitcoms, 1973-1983
NOW AVAILABLE!!! A behind-the-scenes look at Paramount Television sitcoms "Happy Days", "Laverne & Shirley", "Mork & Mindy", "Taxi", "Bosom Buddies", "Cheers" "Family Ties" and many others.
In the ten years that Happy Days would reign as one of the leading shows in television, Paramount Television produced a solid package of comedy series written by some of the best and brightest the industry would ever know: Lowell Ganz, Bob Brunner, Ed. Weinberger, Les and Glen Charles, Gary David Goldberg, Michael Leeson, Dale McRaven, Stan Daniels, Brian Levant, Earl Pomerantz, David Angell, and hundreds more who would keep America connected and laughing out loud. The producers who were selected by Paramount to serve as the foundations of the shows were extremely adept at employing top-notch | |  | | Jesse James: The Man and the Myth
The factual life and times of outlaw Jesse James.
Confederate guerilla. Bank robber. Cold blooded killer. Jesse James was all of these, but still, most of his life remains a mystery. Now the record is set straight, with a portrait painted of a man obsessed with rebellion, loyalty, and irrepressible need to be known. He loved as intensely as he hated. And in his eyes, the War Between the States would never be over. From his obscure childhood to his explosive career during the Civil War to his earning the reputation as the country's most notorious bandit, Jesse James: The Man and the Myth brings you the facts and dispels the fiction. | |  | | Join Together! Forty Years of the Rock Music Festival
Join Together:Forty Years of the Rock Music festival takes us behind the scenes of the major rock festivals such as Monterey Pop, Woodstock, Isle of Wight, Live Aid, Lollapalooza, Ozzfest, Live8, the US Festivals, Vans Warped Tour, SARSstock, Woodstock ’99, Coachella, Bonnaroo and dozens of other international events. Over 90 artists contribute their unique memories and perspectives on the music festival and its impact on rock music and society.
Although popular music has changed and evolved through the years, one predominant aspect of the music scene is the festival. Whether destination, traveling or worldwide television events, the rock festival is a music and cultural phenomenon. The components change, the performers vary, the politics are updated and refocused, the outlets expand, the society of young people is celebrated, and the world watches with curiosity and fascination. Sometimes the music is standard and predictable, other times innovative and electrifying. In a world where anything goes, controversy is common…and | |  | | Outlaws: The Illustrated History of the James-Younger Gang
Outlaws draws upon verified accounts to tell a fascinating story of the most famous band of outlaws in American history. Marley deftly steps through the accumulated legends of the James-Younger Gang to weave a factual and fascinating tale of adventure, terror, grief, and revenge.
No book before has looked in as great detail at how the Gang – some of whom were former Confederate guerillas – were driven by a seething bitterness toward the Yankees who had brutalized their families during the War Between the States. Marley offers compelling evidence that for the Gang, the banks and trains they robbed represented the continued exploitation by the North of the vanquished South. The Gang’s mythic status owed largely to fellow Confederates who felt that the Gang’s robberies were a justified retribution against the oppressive Northern establishment.
Outlaws details t | |  | | Southern Rockers: The Roots and Legacy of Southern Rock
A biography of Southern Rock groups including the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker Band, .38 Special and others.
Southern Rock groups have captured the imaginations of millions of diehard rock and roll fans with their charismatic, hard-driving musical rebellion. The Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Marshall Tucker Band, The Charlie Daniels Band, Wet Willie, The Outlaws, .38 Special, Grinderswitch, Blackfoot...all have knocked the music world off its feet with soulful, primal rhythm anthems to good times, hard times, wild living, romance, heartbreak, stoic independence, and gentle Southern landscapes.
Southern Rock is alive, well, and, most definitely, here to stay. Southern Rockers: The Ro | |  | | Tales From the Rock N Roll Highway
Dozens of music artists, from the Fifties to present, share their stories of their touring adventures.
If you love rock and roll, you'll love this hilarious, outrageous, revealing, poignant, bawdy and highly entertaining collection of stories about some of the most famous and infamous names in music. Tales From the Rock N Roll Highway gives you an uncensored, up-close-and-personal look at rock stars. Told by musicians at all levels of experience, and by roadies, radio personalities, music journalists, tour managers, and fans, these stories describe pranks, diversions, and wild behavior; the tedium and loneliness of life on the road; studio experiences; groupies; the excess of drug and alcohol a | |  | | The Outlaw Youngers: A Confederate Brotherhood
The definitive history of the outlaw Younger Brothers.
In this in-depth biography, Brant shows that the Younger brothers--Cole, Bob, John, and Jim--were motivated by commitment, and she sets them firmly in the context of their times, clearly explaining how and why the sons of a prominent western Missouri merchant turned to a life of crime in the years following the Civil War. In the process, she also shows what life on the Missouri-Kansas border was like for those who supported the Confederacy. Brant has carefully crafted a comprehensive and informal account based on the available primary sources and has properly qualified many statements for whic |
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