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The Union Signal Radio Theater Collection by Anthony Ellis, Jeff Ward, Doug Bost

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/244535 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/244535] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Union Signal Radio Theater Collection Series: Part of The Union Signal Radio Theater Collection Author: Anthony Ellis, Jeff Ward, Doug Bost Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 15, 2015 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Union Signal is Jeff Ward and Doug Bost. From their ruined garage, they’ve been producing radio plays that have been broadcast on National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, and Bavarian State Radio, as well as on local public radio stations across the country and on Joe Bevilacqua’s The Comedy-O-Rama Hour in its first XM Radio incarnation. Their plays have won awards with the BBC and the Midwest Radio Theater Workshop, as well as the Mark Time Award and the Charles Ogle Award. As members of the comedy group Euphobia, Jeff and Doug also write and produce audio sketches that are hilariously short. The Union Signal Radio Theater Collection features ten of Jeff and Doug’s best productions: CD 1 - Dead Man’s Hole (Tracks 1-11) - The Toad (Tracks 12-20) CD2 - December 17 (Tracks 1-9) - Georgia and the Bad Idea (Tracks 10-15) - The Dan (Tracks 16-23) CD 3 - Roadkill (Tracks 1-9) - Dorcus (Tracks 10-12) - October Surprise (Tracks 13-15) - Mallets Aforethought (Tracks 16-21) - A Study in Wax, part 1 (Tracks 22-25) CD 4 - A Study in Wax, part 2 (Tracks 1-4) - Jeff Ward and Doug Bost Interview on “The Joe Bev Experience” (Tracks 5-24) Doug Bost is a writer living in Brooklyn. His screenplays include Diminished Capacity, Kubuku Rides (This Is It), Focus Group, and Policy of Truth. His radio plays include Dead Man’s Hole, Roadkill, The Dan, and The Bride in the Box. His short stories have been heard on station KCRW’s Unfictional. Jeff Ward writes radio plays and musicals. He is the author of December 17, The Toad, Georgia, and the hard-hitting, impeccably researched documentaries Dorcus and October Surprise. He wrote the musical Take One and has written jokes for SNL’s Weekend Update. Waterlogg Productions is a full service audio/video entertainment company, founded in 2002 by husband and wife creative duo Joe Bevilacqua & Lorie Kellogg. They are the proud distributors of Union Signal, whose plays have graced Joe Bev’s The Comedy-O-Ram in its XM Radio incarnation. Together, Joe and Lorie have been responsible for over 150 titles distributed exclusively by Blackstone Audio. Check out their website at www.Waterlogg.com.

Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews by Jerry Garcia

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245872 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245872] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews Author: Jerry Garcia Narrator: Jerry Garcia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: These never-before-published interviews with Jerry Garcia reveal his thoughts on religion, politics, his personal life, and his creative process. Jerry on Jerry provides new insight into the beloved frontman of the Grateful Dead in time for the 50th Anniversary of the band. Released by the Jerry Garcia Family and made available to the public for the first time, these are some of the most candid, intimate interviews with Jerry Garcia ever published. Here, Garcia speaks openly about everything from growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area and his first encounters with early R&B to his thoughts on songwriting, LSD, the Beats and Neal Cassady, government, movies, and more. Illustrated with family photographs, ephemera, and Jerry's artwork, Jerry on Jerry presents uniquely poignant, unguarded, and astute moments, showing a side of Jerry that even his biggest fans have not known.

This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead by David Gans, Blair Jackson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247703 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247703] to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead Author: David Gans, Blair Jackson Narrator: David Gans, Cynthia Hopkins, Arthur Bishop, Helen Litchfield, Fred Berman, Holter Graham, Oliver Wyman, Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, Blair Jackson and David Gans, reveal the band’s story through the words of its members, their creative collaborators and peers, and a number of diverse fans, stitching together a multitude of voices into a seamless oral tapestry. Capturing the ebullient spirit at the group’s core, Jackson and Gans weave together a musical saga that examines the music and subculture that developed into its own economy, touching fans from all walks of life, from penniless hippies to celebrities, and at least one U.S. vice president. This definitive book traces the Dead’s evolution from its humble beginnings as a folk/bluegrass band playing small venues in Palo Alto to the feral psychedelic warriors and stadium-filling Americana jam band that blazed all the way through to the 90s. Along the way, we hear from many who were touched by the Dead—from David Crosby and Miles Davis, to Ken Kesey, Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia, and a host of Merry Pranksters, to legendary concert promoter Bill Graham, and others. Throughout their journey the Dead broke (and sometimes rewrote) just about every rule of the music business, defying conventional wisdom and charting their own often unusual course, in the process creating a business model unlike any seen before. Musically, too, they were pioneers, fusing inspired ideas and techniques with intuition and fearlessness to craft an utterly unique and instantly recognizable sound. Their music centered on collective improvisation, spiritual and social democracy, trust, generosity, and fun. They believed that you can make something real, spontaneous, and compelling happen with other musicians if you trust and encourage each other, and jam as if your life depended on it. And when it worked, there was nothing else like it. Whether you’re part of the new generation of Deadheads who are just discovering their music or a devoted fan who has traded Dead tapes for decades, you will want to listen in on the irresistible conversations and anecdotes shared in these pages. You’ll hear stories you haven’t heard before, possibly from voices that may be unfamiliar to you, and the tales that unfold will shed a whole new light on a long and inspiring musical odyssey. Includes archival recordings of Grateful Dead band members and fans.

The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy by Rainn Wilson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247272 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247272] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy Author: Rainn Wilson Narrator: Rainn Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 4.81 of Total 16 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Rainn Wilson’s memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life.   For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and media company, SoulPancake, that eventually became a bestselling book of the same name. He also started a hilarious Twitter feed (sample tweet: “I'm not on Facebook” is the new “I don't even own a TV”) that now has more than four million followers.   Now, he's ready to tell his own story and explain how he came up with his incredibly unique sense of humor and perspective on life. He explains how he grew up “bone-numbingly nerdy before there was even a modicum of cool attached to the word.” The Bassoon King chronicles his journey from nerd to drama geek (“the highest rung on the vast, pimply ladder of high school losers”), his years of mild debauchery and struggles as a young actor in New York, his many adventures and insights about The Office, and finally, Wilson's achievement of success and satisfaction, both in his career and spiritually, reconnecting with the artistic and creative values of the Bahá’í faith he grew up in.

Special Deluxe by Neil Young

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237974 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237974] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Special Deluxe Author: Neil Young Narrator: Neil Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 5, 2015 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Special Deluxe, written and read by Neil Young. Quirky and wonderfully candid, Neil Young's new book of reminiscences is as compelling as his first book. He returns with more unforgettable stories about his six decades in the music business - but this is not your average rock biography. He centres this new work on one of his life's passions, cars, using the framework of all the cars he's ever owned to construct a narrative of his life and career, exploring and demonstrating how memories are attached to objects. Young also expresses regret for the environmental impact of his past cars, and now passionately advocates the use of clean energy. Special Deluxe is a mix of memoir and environmental politics by one of the most gifted and influential artists of our time.