The Gig Book: Country Hits


Book Description

Have you already exhausted the Gig Books of Acoustic Hits, or Classic Rock, or Number 1 Hits? Got a gig coming up in a Country bar? Well, you’re in luck. The Gig Book: Country is jam packed with classic country songs by the biggest names of the genre. Presented with melody line arrangements in standard notation, with guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics, this is the perfect reference for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians, allowing you to quickly understand and learn every song – how to sing it and what chords to play. The setlist includes: - 3:10 To Yuma, The [Frankie Laine] - A Boy Named Sue [Johnny Cash] - Act Naturally [The Beatles] - Always On My Mind [Willie Nelson] - Blue Moon Of Kentucky [Bill Monroe] - Born To Lose [Ted Daffan] - Crazy [Patsy Cline] - For The Good Times [Kris Kristofferson] - Gentle On My Mind [Glen Campbell] - Guitar Man [Elvis Presley] - I Can't Stop Loving You [Don Gibson] - I Saw The Light [Hank Williams] - I Walk The Line [Johnny Cash] - If Tomorrow Never Comes [Garth Brooks] - Jolene [Dolly Parton] - Long Black Veil [Lefty Frizzell] - She Believes In Me [Kenny Rogers] - Take Me Home Country Roads [John Denver] - Tennessee Waltz [Patti Page] - The Yellow Rose Of Texas [Gene Autry] - Tobacco Road [The Swingin’ Blue Jeans] - Wabash Cannonball [The Carter Family] And many, many more!




Fingerstyle Guitar Gig Book


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This collection of 146 fingerstyle transcriptions and arrangements covers a wide variety of styles including dozens of popular and jazz standards as well as blues and country songs, sea chanteys, folk ballads, sacred, gospel and Christmas melodies, Celtic and patriotic tunes, children's songs, classical and wedding music, and select Piburn originals. the book is designed as a resource for guitarists in virtually any solo performance situation. the result of years of experience as an arranger/composer and performing guitarist, this book provides a goldmine of tunes for the fingerstyle player. from Greensleeves and the Girl I left Behind Me to 'Round Midnight and the Girl from Ipanema, this comprehensive anthology has it all. You'll be able to compile your set lists for a broad array of venues from this single source! Intermediate to advanced in difficulty with all tunes appearing in standard notation and tablature.




The Gig Book: No. 1 Hits


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Need to quickly learn some songs for your gig? Going out busking with only 3 songs in your repertoire? Thankfully, The Gig Book: No. 1 Hits is here, jam packed with 101 Hits from the past 60 years. Presented with melody line arrangements in standard notation, with guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics, this is the perfect reference for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians, allowing you to quickly understand and learn every song – how to sing them and what chords to play. The setlist includes: - ...Baby One More Time [Britney Spears] - America [Razorlight] - Ashes To Ashes [David Bowie] - Beautiful Day [U2] - Bleeding Love [Leona Lewis] - Can't Get You Out Of My Head [Kylie Minogue] - Come On Eileen [Dexys Midnight Runners] - Crazy [Gnarls Barkley] - Don't Speak [No Doubt] - Going Underground [The Jam] - Grace Kelly [Mika] - Heart Of Glass [Blondie] - I Believe I Can Fly [R. Kelly] - I Want To Know What Love Is [Foreigner] - I Will Survive [Gloria Gaynor] - Imagine [John Lennon] - Karma Chameleon [Culture Club] - Like A Prayer [Madonna] - Love Is All Around [Wet Wet Wet] - Mull Of Kintyre [Wings] - My Heart Will Go On [Celine Dion] - Never Gonna Give You Up [Rick Astley] - Umbrella [Rihanna] - Video Killed The Radio Star [The Buggles] - Viva La Vida [Coldplay] And many, many more!




The Gig Book


Book Description

Featuring lyrics, chord boxes and melody line, text, as well as black and white photos, these handy books are an ideal size for stuffing in your gig bag. Glance inside and you'll see they're super-sized packages of hit after hit for all musicians.With a hard-wearing PVC cover, each book in the series is designed to be carried around and used, over and over again!Bound to be as popular with keyboard players as the Little Black Books are with guitarists!




The Gig Book: Bob Dylan


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The Gig Book: Bob Dylan features the lyrics, Guitar chord boxes and melody line to one hundred classic Bob Dylan songs from the every decade of his career. This is the perfect reference for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians, allowing you to quickly understand and learn every song – how to sing them and what chords to play. Setlist: - Blowin' In The Wind - Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Ballad Of Hollis Brown - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Masters Of War - Girl From The North Country - With God On Our Side - Only A Pawn In Their Game - Chimes Of Freedom - The Times They Are A-Changin' - One Too Many Mornings - All I Really Wanna Do - I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) - Spanish Harlem Incident - My Back Pages - It Ain't Me Babe - To Ramona - Subterranean Homesick Blues - Maggie's Farm - Mr Tambourine Man - It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Gates Of Eden - Love Minus Zero/No Limit - She Belongs To Me - Its All Over Now, Baby Blue - Like A Rolling Stone - Tombstone Blues - It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry - Highway 61 Revisited - Queen Jane Approximately - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Desolation Row - Positively 4th Street - Visions Of Johanna - One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - I Want You - Just Like A Woman - Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again - Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) - Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands - I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine - All Along The Watchtower - Drifter's Escape - I Pity The Poor Immigrant - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight - Quinn The Eskimo - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - This Wheel's on Fire - Tears Of Rage - Lay Lady Lay - I Threw It All Away - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You - If Not For You - Watching The River Flow - I Shall Be Released - New Morning - When I Paint My Masterpiece - Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Forever Young - Tangled Up In Blue - Simple Twist Of Fate - You're A Big Girl Now - Idiot Wind - If You See Her, Say Hello - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - Shelter From The Storm - Hurricane - One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) - Oh, Sister - Isis - Romance In Durango - Changing Of The Guards - Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) - Gotta Serve Somebody - I Believe In You - Every Grain Of Sand - Jokerman - Blind Willie McTell - Brownsville Girl - Most Of The Time - Ring Them Bells - Everything Is Broken - Man In The Long Black Coat - Dignity - Series Of Dreams - Love Sick - Tryin' To Get To Heaven - Make You Feel My Love - Not Dark Yet - Mississippi - High Water (For Charley Patton) - Things Have Changed - Workingman's Blues #2 - Thunder On The Mountain - Someday Baby - When The Deal Goes Down - Life Is Hard - Beyond Here Lies Nothin’




The Starday Story


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Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Research in Record Labels–Certificate of Merit (2012) The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built is the first book entirely dedicated to one of the most influential music labels of the twentieth century. In addition to creating the largest bluegrass catalogue throughout the 1950s and '60s, Starday was also known for its legendary rockabilly catalogue, an extensive Texas honky-tonk outpouring, classic gospel and sacred recordings, and as a Nashville independent powerhouse studio and label. Written with label president and co-founder Don Pierce, this book traces the label's origins in 1953 through the 1968 Starday-King merger. Interviews with artists and their families, employees, and Pierce contribute to the stories behind famous hit songs, including "Y'all Come," "A Satisfied Mind," "Why Baby Why," "Giddy-up Go," "Alabam," and many others. Gibson's research and interviews also shed new light on the musical careers of George Jones, Arlie Duff, Willie Nelson, Roger Miller, the Stanley Brothers, Cowboy Copas, Red Sovine, and countless other Starday artists. Conversations with the children of Pappy Daily and Jack Starns provide a unique perspective on the early days of Starday, and extensive interviews with Pierce offer an insider glance at the country music industry during its golden era. Weathering through the storm of rock and roll and, later, the Nashville Sound, Starday was a home to traditional country musicians and became one of the most successful independent labels in American history. Ultimately, The Starday Story is the definitive record of a country music label that played an integral role in preserving our nation's musical heritage.




The Bones Beneath


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The twelfth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham. 'Atmospheric, gripping . . . with a superb ending' Sunday Express The Deal Tom Thorne is back in charge - but there's a terrifying price to pay. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath he has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body he buried twenty-five years before. But only if Thorne agrees to escort him. The Danger Unable to refuse, Thorne gathers a team and travels to a remote Welsh island, at the mercy of the weather and cut off from the mainland. Thorne is determined to get the job done and return home before Nicklin can outwit them. The Deaths But Nicklin knows this island well and has had time to plan ahead. Soon, new bodies are added to the old, and Thorne finds himself facing the toughest decision he has ever had to make... Tom Thorne returns in this utterly gripping, brilliantly plotted thriller. The Bones Beneath is Sunday Times bestseller Mark Billingham's most ambitious and accomplished work to date. 'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times 'Mark Billingham gets better and better' Michael Connelly




Woman Walk the Line


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Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it’s Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it’s the humanity beneath the music that resonates. Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly’s Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn’s girl-power anthem “The Pill”; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt’s unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on a post-9/11 survivor on the run; Emmylou Harris offers a gateway through paralyzing grief; and Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it. Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who make them, Woman Walk the Line is a very personal collection of essays from some of America’s most intriguing women writers. It speaks to the ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in various states of grace and imperfection—and ultimately how music transforms not just the person making it, but also the listener.




Country Hits


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"Perfect for guitarists, keyboard players and othe musicians"-- Cover.




The Nashville Number System


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The Nashville Number System was originally written and published in 1988 by Chas. He has rigorously updated and edited the book for each of 7 subsequent editions. Featured here is the 2005 printing and 7th edition of The Nashville Number System; expanded with the inclusion of the cd/cd rom, String Of Pearls. By word of mouth, it has become the most recommended source for learning the Number System. The Nashville Number System is used as a text at Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Belmont University, in Nashville, and MTSU in Murfreesboro,TN. SYNOPSISIn the late 50's, Neil Matthews devised a musical number system for the Jordanaires to use in the studio. Charlie McCoy and fellow studio musicians began adapting Matthews' number system into chord charts. The Nashville Number System has evolved into a complete method of writing chord charts and melodies---combining Nashville shorthand with formal notation standards. The Nashville Number System is 130 pages with a step by step method of how to write a Nashville number chart for any song. Included with each NNS book in Edition 7 is the cd, "String Of Pearls". This is a 10 song cd of instrumentals, including, Amazing Grace. I walk you through the details of each song and explain the Number System tools used to write the charts. Now, while listening to the cd, you can see and hear how Nashville number charts work.String Of Pearls is an Extended CD (CD ROM). As well as high quality audio that will play in your cd player, you can insert the disc into your computer and watch animated number charts as you listen to the songs. On the cd rom, there is a click track with each song and a highlight moving from chord to chord in time with the music. You can see exactly how to count each measure in real time with the music. Counting bars is probably the hardest part of the number system to teach. With this cd rom, you will be able to see, hear and feel how these charts work.