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Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Sapphire Skies & Dancing Clouds Author: The Relaxation Company Narrator: The Relaxation Company Format: Original Recording Length: 1 hr and 54 mins Language: English Release date: 05-03-10 Publisher: Sounds True Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: Here are peaceful grooves and intimate musical environments created by internationally renowned recording artist Mick Rossi, with embedded Alpha Brainwave Pulses by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson. These entrancing melodies and gentle rhythms create a truly unique journey into tranquil musical spaces. Please note: This is a nonverbal meditation program.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Gift: Book 6 Author: Jeff Resnick Narrator: Jeff Resnick Format: Unabridged Length: 37 mins Language: English Release date: 01-09-15 Publisher: JeffResnick.com Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: The Gift is a seven-book musical journey through Time and Space! Experience a Musician's life performing on stage, interacting with a tantalizing menagerie of musicians, gangsters, travelers, lovers, and spirits. You'll be challenged to decide what is real and what is imagined, and to wonder whether it even matters. Above all else, The Gift is a tender love story about two musicians who are destined to be together, despite the separations they must endure. In this Age of Mysticism, The Gift stands out as the compelling saga of a Musician's lifelong search for meaning through the realization of his special Gift. This seven-book mini-series should be enjoyed sequentially, beginning with Book 1.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Trouble Boys Subtitle: The True Story of the Replacements Author: Bob Mehr Narrator: Mary Lucia Format: Unabridged Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins Language: English Release date: 06-06-17 Publisher: Hachette Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 79 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: Based on all-new interviews, Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements is the definitive "boigraphy" of one of the last great rock 'n' roll bands of the 20th century. Written with the participation of the group's key members, including reclusive singer-songwriter Paul Westerberg, bassist Tommy Stinson, and the family of late guitarist Bob Stinson, Trouble Boys is a deeply intimate and nuanced portrait, exposing the primal factors and forces - addiction, abuse, fear - that would shape one of the most brilliant and notoriously self-destructive bands of all time. Based on a decade of research and reporting and hundreds of interviews (with family, friends, managers, producers, and musical colleagues) as well as full access to the Replacements' archives at Twin/Tone and Warner Bros. Records, author Bob Mehr has fashioned something far more compelling than a conventional band bio. A roaring rock 'n' roll adventure, a heartrending family drama, and a cautionary showbiz tale, Trouble Boys is a penetrating work of biography and a major addition to the rock book canon. Critic Reviews: "An in-depth biography of a beloved, exasperating band that never quite made it.... [An] impressively researched and well-rendered biography.... The dynamic that made the band great also tore them apart, as this biography superbly documents." ( Publishers Weekly) "The definitive bio of the Replacements... Trouble Boys brings the band back to life. Over six years, Mehr interviewed more than 200 people, creating a narrative thick with detail, revelations and emotion." ( Rolling Stone)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: My Damage Subtitle: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor Author: Jim Ruland, Keith Morris Narrator: James Patrick Cronin Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins Language: English Release date: 08-30-16 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 137 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: Keith Morris is a true punk icon. No one else embodies the sound of Southern Californian hardcore. Short and sporting waist-length dreadlocks, Morris is known the world over for his take-no-prisoners approach on the stage and his integrity off of it. Over the course of his 40-year career, he's battled diabetes, drug and alcohol addiction, and the record industry. My Damage is more than a book about the highs and lows of a punk rock legend, however. It's also a look at rock 'n' roll through the lens of someone who has shared the stage with just about every major figure in the music industry and appeared in cult films like The Decline of Western Civilization and Repo Man. It's a Hollywood story from a native's perspective. My Damage is Morris's streets, his scene, his music - as only he can tell it.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Music Production: How to Produce Music, The Easy-to-Read Guide for Music Producers Author: Tommy Swindali Narrator: Erich Bailey Format: Unabridged Length: 31 mins Language: English Release date: 12-15-17 Publisher: Tommy Swindali Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: You are about to discover proven steps and strategies from music producers on how to produce music, even if you have zero experience in recording and audio engineering. You will be able to learn everything you need to know in order to make your first single sound just the way you want it. In this audiobook, you will to learn how to build your own studio and have the right gear and software in order to start creating music. You will also learn how to be a smart recording artist or give the right direction to performers for whom you want to produce songs. Your first home studio does not need to have all the top-of-the-line gear; you just need the basic stuff, for now. As long as you know how to use the most basic studio equipment, you will know what to do once you hit the big studio. We will make sure you know how to engineer all the tracks that you have recorded in order to make your first single sound just the way you want it. Here is a preview of what you'll learn....

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Colonel Subtitle: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley Author: Alanna Nash - introduction, Alanna Nash Narrator: Gibson Frazier Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins Language: English Release date: 12-12-17 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: In The Colonel, Alanna Nash, the author of Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch, explores in depth the amazing story of Colonel Tom Parker, the man behind the legend and the myth of Elvis Presley. The result is like the most riveting of real-life detective stories - one that will completely change your view of Presley's life, success, and death. While scores of books have been written about Elvis Presley, this is the first meticulously researched biography of Tom Parker written by someone who knew him personally. And for anyone truly interested in the performer many consider the greatest and most influential of the 20th century, it is impossible to understand how Elvis came to be such a phenomenon without examining the life and mind of Parker, the man who virtually controlled Elvis' every move. Alanna Nash has been covering the story of Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker since the day of Presley's funeral in Memphis, Tennessee. She was the first journalist allowed to view Presley's body, a compelling and surprising sight. But the profile of Parker attending the funeral in a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap was even stranger and led her to investigate the man behind the myth. It has been known for 20 years that Thomas Andrew Parker was in fact born in Holland as Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk. But Nash has dug much deeper and, in a masterpiece of reporting, unearthed never-before-seen documents, including Parker's army records and psychiatric evaluations and the original police report of an unsolved murder case in Holland that lies at the heart of the Parker mystery. In the process of weighing the evidence, she answers the biggest riddle in the history of the music industry, as it becomes clear that every move Parker made in the handling of Elvis Presley - from why he never allowed Elvis to perform in Europe, to why he didn't halt Elvis' drug use, to why he put him in so many mediocre movies and even the Colonel's direction of Presley's army career - was designed to protect Parker's own secrets. Filled with startling new material, her book challenges even the most familiar precepts of the Presley saga - everything we presumed about Parker's handling of the world's most famous entertainer must now be reevaluated in the light of information Nash reveals about Parker. Elvis Presley, as one of Parker's unwitting victims, paid a major price for the Colonel's past and his overwhelming need to be more important than his client. As a result Presley was never allowed to reach his potential and died in drug-induced frustration over his stunted and mismanaged career. In this astonishing, impeccably written, and vastly entertaining book, Nash proves that the only figure in American popular culture as fascinating as Elvis Presley is Colonel Tom Parker, the man who shaped Elvis, who in turn helped shape us.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Everything's Bigger in Texas Subtitle: The Life and Times of Kinky Friedman Author: Mary Lou Sullivan Narrator: David Chandler Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins Language: English Release date: 12-09-17 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: Kinky Friedman has always maintained his Kinkster persona and hidden Richard Friedman from the public eye. Using one-liners, humor, and occasional rudeness, he follows the advice of his friend Bob Dylan to keep an aura of mystery. Author Mary Lou Sullivan spent many contentious days and nights at Kinky's Texas Hill Country ranch before he trusted her enough to open up and speak candidly. Best known as an irreverent cigar-chomping Jewish country-and-western singer, turned author, turned politician, Kinky has dined on monkey brains in the jungles of Borneo, supped with presidents, and vacationed with Bob Dylan in the tiny fishing village of Yelapa, Mexico. A satirist who loves pushing the envelope, he's been attacked onstage, received bomb threats, and put on the only show in Austin City Limits' history deemed too offensive to air. From the 1970s music scene in L.A. with Tom Waits and the Band, to political platforms advocating legalized marijuana, to friendships with John Belushi, Joseph Heller, Don Imus, Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, and Billy Bob Thornton, this is the candid account based on dozens and years of interviews of the larger-than-life Texan who is still writing books and songs, recording albums, and performing for enthusiastic audiences throughout the world.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Zen Guitar Author: Philip Toshio Sudo Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 11 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: Unleash the song of your soul with Zen Guitar, a contemplative handbook that draws on ancient Eastern wisdom and applies it to music and performance. Each of us carries a song inside us, the song that makes us human. Zen Guitar provides the key to unlocking this song - a series of life lessons presented through the metaphor of music. Philip Sudo offers his own experiences with music to enable us to rediscover the harmony in each of our lives and open ourselves to Zen awareness uniquely suited to the Western mind. Through 58 lessons that provide focus and a guide, the listener is led through to Zen awareness. This harmony is further illuminated through quotes from sources ranging from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix to Miles Davis. From those who have never strummed a guitar to the more experienced, Zen Guitar shows how the path of music offers fulfillment in all aspects of life - a winning idea and an instant classic.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Uncommon People Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of The Rock Stars Author: David Hepworth Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 11-21-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: Recklessness, thy name is rock. The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations. What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. Talent we wished we had. What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us. To live out their songs. To stay young forever. No wonder many didn't stay the course. In Uncommon People, David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments and turning points in the lives of 40 rock stars from 1955 to 1995, taking us on a journey to burst a hundred myths and create a hundred more. As this tribe of uniquely motivated nobodies went about turning themselves into the ultimate somebodies, they also shaped us, our real lives and our fantasies. Uncommon People isn't just their story. It's ours as well. Critic Reviews: "Although fans may chafe at the idea that the age of the rock star has passed, they will be delighted that award-winning British journalist Hepworth covers key, sizzling moments in the lives of 40 stars flourishing from 1955 to 1995." ( Library Journal)

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Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Addiction Formula Subtitle: A Holistic Approach to Writing Captivating, Memorable Hit Songs. With 317 Proven Commercial Techniques & 331 Examples Author: Friedemann Findeisen Narrator: Friedemann Findeisen Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 10-30-17 Publisher: Author's Republic Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 22 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: Discover the songwriting technique used in 97% of all hit songs How to use subtle psychological triggers to captivate any audience. Writing pop, rock, R&B, or hip-hop has never been easier or more fun. Master the art of writing addicting songs Music is a tough industry to break into. With production gear being affordable for the first time in history, it seems like everyone is making music these days. Getting noticed in the continuous stream of information that is the Internet seems almost impossible. But: There is a technique designed specifically to captivate and hook an audience and with The Addiction Formula, you can learn it in a couple of hours. You will learn all about lyric-less storytelling, a technique used by the most successful songwriters of our time. If you've always wanted to know how to write songs that stick out and speak to a large audience, this is the book for you. The songwriting book for a new generation of songwriters The 60s are over! Songwriting today is a very different experience than it was when the Beatles were on the air. By combining arrangement, harmony, melody, rhythm, lyrics and production in one deviously simple technique it is the first songwriting book that speaks to an all-writing, all-producing DIY generation. Includes over 317 techniques you will be able to use instantly Part two of The Addiction Formula is almost like a dictionary of hit songwriting techniques. All the tools are hand-picked from hit songs of the past 30 years. But this book is far more than just a list of tips and tricks: The Addiction Formula also shows you how the techniques can be applied to your songs. It puts all of what you learn into perspective and shows you how they all fit together. With 331 examples including songs by Rihanna, Katy Perry, Drake and Maroon 5 Are you sick and tired of being taught techniques based on some old country song you've never heard of? One of my guidelines for writing this book was to only include hit songs from the past 30 years. Every single technique in The Addiction Formula is proven with one or more examples to show it in action and to help you learn it quickly and easy. I mean, hey, you get to learn by listening to the songs you listen to anyways! It's fun, quick, and practical.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Ultimate Guitar Beginner's Guide Subtitle: Get to Learn the Art of Playing the Guitar in No Time & Surprise Your Family and Friends Author: Ryan Dorris Narrator: Julie-Ann Amos Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 1 min Language: English Release date: 09-13-17 Publisher: Ryan Dorris Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: Discover everything there is to know about the art of guitar! Are you just into music and want to try it out yourself or are you already great at the guitar and on the look for some new ideas? In this book, we got you covered with everything you need to know about playing guitar. Basic or advanced, you will find what you are looking for! Are you excited to find out how easy it is to become good at playing guitar? Are you looking forward to presenting your new skills to your family and friends? If you answered one the questions above with yes, prepare yourself to learn about one of the greatest arts there is.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Ultimate Guide to Singing for a Living Subtitle: All You Need to Know to Get Started with a Career on the Stage Author: Andrea McCormack Narrator: Louise McCance-Price Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins Language: English Release date: 08-02-17 Publisher: S7VEN Publishing Group Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: In this book you will be provided with the inspiration needed to take the next step to becoming a fabulous fully fledged performer in the competitive world of entertainment. Now, in its second edition, it's not just for those starting out, but it's the real insiders' guide to everything you need to know to reach the very top of your game. You will learn how to... You will be given all the tools you need to make a real go of it and to step up to that stage brimming with confidence and the enjoyment that comes with your new vocation. The result is the hugely rewarding part that states "if you do something you love, you will never have to work a day in your life". Whether you want to be a great singer or entertainer, go for The X Factor/The Voice, start up as a hobby, or even give up your day job, then this book will tell you all you need to know to kick-start your performing career and not look back. For over 20 years, Andrea has been singing for a living, entertaining in the UK and abroad in various shows, to all kinds of venues and audiences. Her ambitions now include sharing her experience with today's generation.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Legacy, a Musical Indictment: Episode 2: The Revolution Author: November Christine Narrator: Damian Sandolo, T. R. Krupa, Brant Rotnem, Declan Meagher, Tony Gonzalez, Kira Alvarez, Davon Williams, Elizabeth Dubberley Format: Original Recording Length: 26 mins Language: English Release date: 07-17-17 Publisher: November Christine Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: Hip-hop meets history in this four-part musical series about the 16th century priest Martin Luther. In Episode 2, The Storyteller continues to build his case for Martin. The year is 1519, and Martin's message of freedom has gone viral with the German people. But Martin's newfound fame with the poor has also made him Public Enemy Number One with the Pope. When an epic "rap battle" of wits at the Leipzig Debate lands him in the Pope's custody, it looks like the mouthy monk doesn't have a prayer. Will Martin's way with words get him off the hook, or is it case closed for the Revolution? Complete cast includes: Brant Rotnem, Davon Williams, Robert Fleet, Amanda Hootman, T.R. Krupa, Tony Gonzalez, Kira Alvarez, Darrell Philips, Damian Sandolo, Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper, Declan Meagher, Brad Simanski, Jonathan Langley, Elizabeth Dubberley, and Nick Dubberley. Arrangement/Orchestrations by Johnnie Long III.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Powerhouse Singing Techniques Subtitle: Develop Your Voice's Range, Power, and Beauty Author: James A. Cohen Narrator: Jared Capper Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 05-23-17 Publisher: James A. Cohen Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: This audiobook reveals how the greatest singers in the world practice and develop their voices. In Powerhouse Singing Techniques, vocal coach James Cohen reveals it all: how to develop one's voice to its full potential. After teaching thousands of students, Cohen has discovered what really works, and he explains it all in simple terms anyone can understand and follow. The methods and techniques in this book will work for anyone, using any method or voice teacher. Consider giving this book to your voice teacher as a gift! That being said, this is not a program for beginners. Among the many powerful techniques, you will learn: And more!

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Otis Redding Subtitle: An Unfinished Life Author: Jonathan Gould Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 05-16-17 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited, definitive biography of the King of Soul, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Redding's iconic performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Otis Redding remains an immortal presence in the canon of American music on the strength of such classic hits as "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay", "I've Been Loving You Too Long", "Try a Little Tenderness", and "Respect", a song he wrote and recorded before Aretha Franklin made it her own. As the architect of the distinctly Southern, gospel-inflected style of rhythm & blues associated with Stax Records in Memphis, Redding made music that has long served as the gold standard of 1960s soul. Yet an aura of myth and mystery has always surrounded his life, which was tragically cut short at the height of his career by a plane crash in December 1967. In Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life, Jonathan Gould finally does justice to Redding's incomparable musical artistry, drawing on exhaustive research, the cooperation of the Redding family, and previously unavailable sources of information to present the first comprehensive portrait of the singer's background, his upbringing, and his professional career. In chronicling the story of Redding's life and music, Gould also presents a social history of the time and place from which they emerged. His book never lets us forget that the boundaries between black and white in popular music were becoming porous during the years when racial tensions were reaching a height throughout the United States. His indelible portrait of Redding and the mass acceptance of soul music in the 1960s is both a revealing look at a brilliant artist and a provocative exploration of the tangled history of race and music in America that resonates strongly with the present day.