 | Buy now! Title: The Sound of Austin Photographer Mathew Sturtevant's beautiful coffee table book of 100 portraits and stories of Austin artists; a gem. |
 | Buy now! Title: Music In The Kitchen Label: University of Texas Press Year: October 2009 From The University Of Texas Press and editor Glenda Pierce Facemire, Head Makeup Artist at Austin City Limits for twenty years, comes this exclusive collection of favorite recipes from some of ACL's most beloved performers, including, Willie Nelson, B.B. King, Dolly Parton, Buddy Guy, My Morning Jacket, David Gray, Jason Mraz, The Allman Brothers, Rosanne Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and a host of other national and international artists who have been serving up a musical gumbo from our stage to nourish our souls for the last three and a half decades. And now, come to find out, they can cook off stage just as well! With over 130 tasty dishes generously seasoned with artist biographies and fabulous photos from the ACL archives, this cookbook is destined to become a collector's item and treasured kitchen companion for the ages. |
 | Buy now! Title: Hidden Kitchens Year: 2009 by NPR Radio's "The Kitchen Sisters" ( Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson). Below-the-radar kitchen traditions across the Lone Star State...Ice Houses, Chili Queens, NASA space test kitchens, Birth of the Frito, the Slurpee, the Margarita, and more! Great stories. |
 | Buy now! Title: Slide Rules: Tunings for Lap Steel, Bottleneck, Resophonic and Indian Slide Guitar Year: 2009 By: Andy Volk Designed to fit in your guitar case, Slide Rules includes over 70 of the most popular and useful tunings for acoustic & electric lap steel guitar, bottleneck slide guitar, resophonic guitar, Weissenborn® and Hindustani slide guitar as used by the greatest players of the past and present. The book features tunings & string gauges for Rock, Blues, Country, Hawaiian, Western Swing, Folk, Celtic, Bluegrass, Jazz, Pop, Cajun, Ambient, Classical, Raga and every genre in between. Presented in an easy-to-read, graphic manner, the strings, notes, & musical intervals for each tuning are shown along with comments about the tuning; its uses, advantages and the players who've used it. A string gauge chart helps you set-up each tuning with the proper gauge strings. |
 | Buy now! Title: Lap Steel Guitar Year: 2003 By: Andy Volk Lap Steel Guitar is the first-ever comprehensive book about lap-style and console steel guitar. Including interviews and profiles more than 35 of the greatest electric & acoustic steel guitarists to date, including Cindy. |
