Books built around the road — tour diaries, live-era histories, and the documented chaos of bands built for the stage as much as the studio.
Browse by artist: Phish and Keith Richards both have strong tour-history entries.
Music Tour & Live History Books
- Woodstock - Paperback
- Woodstock: An Encyclopedia of the Music and Art Fair - Hardcover
- The Road to Woodstock - Paperback
- Getting High: Marijuana in World History - Paperback
- Getting High: Marijuana in World History - Hardcover
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Paperback
- Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind - Paperback
- Talkin' Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital - Hardcover
- Sound of the Machine: My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond - Paperback
- Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop: Santa Monica's Legendary Music Venue - Paperback
- The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin - Paperback
- My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future - Paperback
- From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga - Paperback
- Gypsy Alibi: A Gonzo Memoir - Hardcover
- Rocking the Wall. Bruce Springsteen: The Berlin Concert That Changed the World. The Untold Story How the Boss Played Behind the Iron Curtain - Hardcover
- Rocking The Wall: Bruce Springsteen: The Berlin Concert That Changed the World. The Untold Story How the Boss Played Behind the Iron Curtain - Paperback
- Trinh Cong Son and Bob Dylan: Essays on War, Love, Songwriting, and Religion - Hardcover
- Only Wanna Be with You: The Inside Story of Hootie & the Blowfish - Hardcover
- Death Trip: Iggy and the Stooges, 1972-74 - Hardcover
- Cornell '77: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead's Concert at Barton Hall - Hardcover
- Were They Ever Here at All? More Epic Tales of the Grateful Dead - Paperback
- Songs to Fill the Air: Tales of the Grateful Dead - Paperback
- Hip-Hop Is History - Hardcover
- Acid Test: Lsd, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal - Paperback
- Neil Young and his use of Native American imagery in the sixties: 1960's Counter Culture and History - Paperback
- Hello, I'm Johnny Cash - Hardcover
- This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century - Paperback
- The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century - Paperback
- There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." and the End of the Heartland - Hardcover
- 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing about - Paperback
- Paul McCartney: The Songs He Was Singing Vol. 1 - Paperback
- Better Than Lennon, the Music and Talent of Paul McCartney - Paperback
- Brick Through the Window: An Oral History of Punk Rock, New Wave and Noise in Milwaukee, 1964-1984 - Paperback
- Hip-Hop Is History - Paperback
- Little People, BIG DREAMS: Bob Marley - Hardcover
- Little People, BIG DREAMS: Elvis Presley - Hardcover
- Little People, BIG DREAMS: Bob Dylan - Hardcover
- Electric Bluesman: The Life and Times of Jimi Hendrix - Paperback
- Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock - Paperback
- Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist - Paperback
- The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time - Paperback
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories - Hardcover
- Steppin' Razor: The Rebel Life of Peter Tosh - Paperback
- Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation - Paperback
- Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World - Hardcover
- How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music - Hardcover
- Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly - Paperback
- Led Zeppelin: The Biography - Paperback
- The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead--The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter - Hardcover
- The Little Bach Book: An eclectic Omnibus of Notable Details about the Life and Times of the esteemed and highly respected Johann Sebastian Bach - Paperback