Host Daniel Shaw runs down his list of the best books of 2015 by musicians and/or about music with some accompanying tracks.
The books he recommends are:
1) "Sam Phillips, The Man Who Invented Rock and Roll" by Peter Guralnick
2) "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir" by Carrie Brownstein
3) "M Train" by Patti Smith
4) "Reckless: My Life As a Pretender" by Chrissie Hynde
5) "Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music" by John Fogerty
6) "I'll Never Write My Memoirs" by Grace Jones and Paul Morley
7) "Dream in Blue" by Chris Morris
8) "I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like: Mostly True Tall Tales" by Todd Snider
9) "Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams and Drugs with the Grateful Dead" by Bill Kreutzmann and Benjy Eisen
10) "Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny" by Nile Rodgers
11) "Petty: The Biography" by Warren Zanes
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