ABOUT US
Jawbone is a leading independent music book publisher based in London and San Francisco.

Jawbone was launched in 2007 by the team behind many best-selling Backbeat and Thunder Bay titles, including How To Write Songs On Guitar, Beatles Gear, Totally Guitar, and The Piano Handbook. As well as publishing its own books, Jawbone continues to produce Backbeat-branded books for Hal Leonard.
 
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The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk
Jeanette Leech

In the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant garde music. Artists on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Incredible String Band, Vashti Bunyan, Pearls Before Swine and Comus, combined sweet melancholy and modal melody with shape-shifting experimentation to create sounds of unsettling oddness that sometimes go under the name acid or psych folk.

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Todd Rundgren in the Studio
Paul Myers

“If you know what you want, I’ll get it for you. If you don’t know what you want, I’ll do it for you” – Todd Rundgren.

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The True Story Of Jac Holzman’s Visionary Record Label
Mick Houghton

Becoming Elektra is an account of Elektra Records in the Jac Holzman years, from 1950 to 1973. It tells the story of Elektra’s growth from a small independent folk label to a major, multi-faceted, hit making concern.

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Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Years
Sid Griffin

Shelter From The Storm tells the story of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue, the gypsy caravan troupe that lit up US stages between the fall of 1975 and the bicentennial spring that followed. In the company of Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Allen Ginsberg, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, and more, Dylan reinvented the ingenuous troubadour tradition for the cynical 70s – and delivered some of the most thrilling live performances of his career along the way.

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Arthur Lee and the Book of Love
John Einarson

Widely hailed as a genius, Arthur Lee was a character every bit as colorful and unique as his music. In 1966, he was Prince of the Sunset Strip, busy with his pioneering racially-mixed band Love, and accelerating the evolution of California folk-rock by infusing it with jazz and orchestral influences, a process that would climax in a timeless masterpiece, the Love album Forever Changes.

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Elvis Presley's Great Comeback
Gillian G. Gaar

Return Of The King tells the story of a tumultuous period in the life of Elvis Presley. By 1967, The King Of Rock’n’Roll was all but washed-up, thanks to a string of bland movie roles and lackluster records.

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The Authorised Biography
Harry Shapiro

When Cream broke up in 1968 it was by no means a foregone conclusion that it would be Eric Clapton who would enjoy continued commercial success. After all, it was Jack Bruce who had the looks, and who co-wrote and sang all the band’s major hits, including ‘Sunshine Of Your Love’, ‘I Feel Free’ and ‘White Room’.

Read more about Jack Bruce Composing Himself