Summertime Blues

• Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues

  Texas blues couldn't hide from Sam 'Lightnin'' Hopkins

  The Rise & Fall of EMI Records

  The Stones for the Sex Pistols? No wonder EMI missed the digital revolution.

  How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War II to Hip-Hop, the Machine Speaks

  Before babies could talk in TV commercials, there was World War II code-breaking technology

  And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Records/Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

  Kiss sang 'Rock & Roll All Nite,' and their label followed suit – and disco! Disco, from the inside out.

  Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic

  Nas' Illmatic: 16 years of oral street poetry in 308 pages of the written word

• The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's 'Kind of Blue' and the Remaking of Modern Music

  Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and everything after

  Lagniappe

  Found country, the lost art of LP design, and Flatstock's rock, paper, scissors

  Brian Eno's 'Another Green World'

  Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies should be at work here

  Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life

  You can take rock & roll out of the novels but not the novelist

  Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star's Revolution

  'Mine was a sort of Sex Pistols situation in reverse,' writes Pakistani rocker Salman Ahmad

• I Am Ozzy

  Snorting ants? Who can remember!

  Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music ... From Hank Snow to the Band

  Stand for the Canadian National Anthem – Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, the Band, and ... Charlie Daniels?

  Neil Young's 'Greendale'

  Neil Young's comic morality tale

  Phish: The Biography

  What about Ben & Jerry's Phish Food?

  Baby, Let's Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him

  Elvis Presley's 700 madonna/whores