New Booktalk Booklist: Polley Picks

Polley Picks: Some Recent Additions to the Polley Music Library
Bethany Branch BooksTalk, March 27, 2009
Carolyn D.

Carolyn, head of the Polley Music Library, within the downtown Bennett Martin Public Library, presented a booktalk highlighting several recent additions to the music library's holdings.

Classical Music

• Challenges: A Memoir of My Life in Opera by Sarah Caldwell [Music 782.109 Cal]
• Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story by Lang Lang [Music 786.2 Lan]
• The Young Musician's Survival Guide: Tips From Teens and Pros by Amy Nathan [Music 780.7 Nat]
• The Voice: A Memoir by Thomas Quasthoff [Music 782.109 Qua]
• Music in the Post-9/11 World by Jonathan Ritter and J. Martin Daughtry [Music 780.905 Rit]
• 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Here Before You Die by Matthew Rye, ed. [Music 781.68 Rye]
• A History of American Classical Music by Barrymore Laurence Scherer [Music 780.983 Sch]
• Note by Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson by Tricia Tunstall [Music 786.2 Tun]
• Yo-Yo Ma: A Biography by Jim Whiting [Music 787.4 Ma]

Country & Folk Music

• The New Generation of Country Music Stars: Biographies of 50 Artists Born After 1940 by David Dicaire [Music 781.642 Dic]
• River of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman He Loved by Jeffrey Buckner Ford [Music 781.642 For]
• Sing it Pretty: A Memoir by Bess Lomax Hawes [Music 781.62 Haw]
• Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death and Country Music by Dana Jennings [Music 781.642 Jen]
• Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio by Kristine M. McCusker [Music 781.642 McC]
• Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain: Tales of Romance and Tragedy by Robert K. Oermann [Music 781.542 Oer]
• Born Country: How Faith, Family and Music Brought Me Home by Randy Owen [Biography Owen]

Rock, Pop & Blues

• The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard by Peter Benjaminson [Music 781.644 Bal]
• Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001) by Don Felder with Wendy Holden [Music 781.66 Fel]
• Tell the Truth Until They Bleed: Coming Clean in the Dirty World of Blues and Rock and Roll by Josh Alan Friedman [Music 781.66 Fri]
• Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia [Music 781.643 Gio]
• Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business by Danny Goldberg [Music 781.66 Gol]
• Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson by Tom Graves [Music 781.643 Joh]
• When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Search of Rock and Roll, Friendship and Dreams by Bob Greene [Music 781.66 Gre]
• Ska'd for Life: A Personal Journey With The Specials by Horace Panter [Music 781.646 Spe]
• It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways and the Search for the Next American Music by Amanda Petrusich [Music 781.64 Pet]
• Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor [Music 781.66 Tay]
• Woodstock: A New Look by Greg Walter and Lisa Grant [Music 780.79 Wal]

Musicals

• Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
• Mary Martin: Broadway Legend by Ronald L. Davis [Music 782.14 Mar]