Heyya all!
On one of Justin’s musings he talks about Victor Wooten’s book “The Music Lesson”. If you haven’t read it, you might want to. “The Spirit of Music” is Victor’s follow on. Also worth a look.
Two of my “Justin friends” recommended “How to Write One Song” by Jeff Tweedy (of Uncle Tupelo and Wilco fame). I think everyone should OWN this one. In fact, I think you should have a stack of them to give as gifts! Not just to other guitarists, but to anyone you like or love. I’m reading Jeff’s latest book “World Within a Song”, another wonderful read. His memoir “Let’s Go” was great as well.
Hope there are no days that your guitar goes untouched, that a few notes don’t pass from your mouth, or that you aren’t tapping your foot.
Cheers
I listened to “The Music Lesson” on Audible. Victor (with some help from others) reads it - or I should say, performs it. Highly recommended if listening fits into your life!
Yes, I have the book and have been listening to the audiobook on Spotify too.
It’s very entertaining.
Cheers,
Keith
Thanks so much for the recommendations Kevin 
I haven’t read any of those by Jeff Tweedy but sounds like that needs to change
Thank you! Wishing the same for you 
Hey Kevin!!
Loved the Victor Wooten book and posted on it here in the forum in September '23.
Will definitely check out the Tweedy book as I love the music he has made with both those groups!!
Thanks for the recommendations!!!
J
I sometimes read books about musicians.
My latest was Phil Palmer’s Session Men which was great and now I am reading Eric Clapton’s autobiography. I just reached The Fool’s guitar part and things are getting more interesting 
IMO, the autobios by Miles and Keith Richards are a must-read for anyone with even a slightly deeper interest in music. The one by Jorma Kaukonen is also a great read. A few others off the top of my head that I recommend:
Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions
Ian MacDonald: Revolution in the Head: The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties
Geoff Emerick: Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles (take this with a grain of salt)
Glyn Johns: Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles , Eric Clapton, the Faces…
Art Taylor: Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews
I’ve a few lined up actually but not started yet, I tend to mainly read whilst on holiday so I’m waiting until August at the moment!!
But on recommendations I’ve got The Music Lesson and The Spirit of Music by Victor Wooten and Zen Guitar by Philip Toshio Sido to take with me.
I was about to start a new thread with a similar theme when the system suggested I reuse this old one (Hi @Kevguitar!). If it’s considered bad form to revive old topics, perhaps the moderators can split this out?
I did a lot of reading during the last year and half - for BLIM at first, but then I just kept going with books about music, musicians and musicianship 
I have marked the books I particularly liked or learned from in bold.
- The Blues - a Visual History, by Mike Evans
- Mojo Hand - the life and times of lightning Hopkins by Timothy O’Brien
- Guitar the worlds most seductive instrument by David Schiller
- The Music Lesson - a spiritual search for growth through music by Victor Wooten
- The Practice of Practice, by Jonathan Harnum
- Chuck Berry - an American Life, RJ Smith
- Play It Loud, by Brad Tolinksi and Alan di Perna
- Glyn Johns - Sound Man, by Glyn Johns
- John & Paul - a love story in songs by Ian Leslie (I am a third of the way through and love it - I have decided to listen to each song reference before moving on, so its going to take some time to finish!)
Next at bat:
- The Devil Is In It - a history of the American acoustic guitar by John Stubbings
- The Inner Game of Music - Barry Green and Tim Galwey
- Escaping the Delta - Robert Johnson and the invention of the blues, by Elijah Wald
Is That It? by Bob Geldof. The first half is very entertaining. The second half gets dry as it’s mostly about the logistics of the live aid concert. I would give the second half a miss but the first half is worth reading.