Lonely Avenue:

The Unlikely Life & Times of Doc Pomus

Alex Halberstadt

Introductory note by Peter Guralnick

The “taut and affecting” (New York Times) story of the music legend who wrote “Save the Last Dance for Me,” “This Magic Moment,” and “Viva Las Vegas”

Blue Monday:

Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock n Roll

Rick Coleman

An immense cultural biography -- the first to convey the full scope of Fats Domino’s impact on the popular music of the twentieth century.

Brother Ray

Ray Charles' Own Story

Ray Charles

David Ritz

As the Chicago Sun-Times put it, Brother Ray is "candid, explicit, sometimes embarrassing, often hilarious, always warm, touching and deeply human-just like his music."

Divided Soul

The Life Of Marvin Gaye

David Ritz

A definitive and enduring look at the man who embodied the very essence of the word soul.

Stomping the Blues

Albert Murray

This study of the blues by one of America's premier essayists and novelists will change old attitudes about a tradition that continues to feed the very heart of popular music-a blues that dances, shakes, shimmies, and exchanges bad news for stomping, rollicking, pulse-quickening good times.