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The Spirit of Music

The Lesson Continues

The Lesson Continues

The Lesson Continues

By Victor L. Wooten

By Victor L. Wooten

By Victor L. Wooten

By Victor L. Wooten

By Victor L. Wooten
Read by Victor L. Wooten and Various

By Victor L. Wooten
Read by Victor L. Wooten and Various

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    About The Spirit of Music

    Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten’s inspiring parable of the importance of music and the threats that it faces in today’s world. 

    We may not realize it as we listen to the soundtrack of our lives through tiny earbuds, but music and all that it encompasses is disappearing all around us. In this fable-like story three musicians from around the world are mysteriously summoned to Nashville, the Music City, to join together with Victor to do battle against the “Phasers,” whose blinking “music-cancelling” headphones silence and destroy all musical sound. Only by coming together, connecting, and making the joyful sounds of immediate, “live” music can the world be restored to the power and spirit of music.

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    About The Spirit of Music

    Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten’s inspiring parable of the importance of music and the threats that it faces in today’s world. 

    We may not realize it as we listen to the soundtrack of our lives through tiny earbuds, but music and all that it encompasses is disappearing all around us. In this fable-like story three musicians from around the world are mysteriously summoned to Nashville, the Music City, to join together with Victor to do battle against the “Phasers,” whose blinking “music-cancelling” headphones silence and destroy all musical sound. Only by coming together, connecting, and making the joyful sounds of immediate, “live” music can the world be restored to the power and spirit of music.

    A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

    About The Spirit of Music

    Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten’s inspiring parable of the importance of music and the threats that it faces in today’s world.

    We may not realize it as we listen to the soundtrack of our lives through tiny earbuds, but music and all that it encompasses is disappearing all around us. In this fable-like story three musicians from around the world are mysteriously summoned to Nashville, the Music City, to join together with Victor to do battle against the “Phasers,” whose blinking “music-cancelling” headphones silence and destroy all musical sound. Only by coming together, connecting, and making the joyful sounds of immediate, “live” music can the world be restored to the power and spirit of music.


    Read by the author, with:
    Odelphis Davis as Mom
    Keb’ Mo’ as Dad
    Jonathan Chase as Jonathan
    Cameron Wooten as the Record Store Owner & Truck Stop Employee
    Sam Lutomia as Ali
    Ryoko Suzuki as Seiko
    India Arie as the music & Isis Singing voice
    Brian Edwards as Sifu
    Michael Kott as Michael
    Chuck Rainey as Uncle Clyde
    Radmila Bowers as Isis
    Daniel J. Levitin as Phaser
    Brandon Blake as Brandon
    Dave Welsch as Larry
    and Jeff Coffin as the Saxophone player

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    About Victor L. Wooten

    Victor L. Wooten is an American bass player, composer, producer, and five-time Grammy Award winner, as well as an original member of the jazz and bluegrass band Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. He is also the author of the parable… More about Victor L. Wooten

    About Victor L. Wooten

    Victor L. Wooten is an American bass player, composer, producer, and five-time Grammy Award winner, as well as an original member of the jazz and bluegrass band Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. He is also the author of the parable… More about Victor L. Wooten

    About Victor L. Wooten

    Victor L. Wooten is an American bass player, composer, producer, and five-time Grammy Award winner, as well as an original member of the jazz and bluegrass band Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. He is also the author of the parable… More about Victor L. Wooten

    Product Details

    Category: Music | Inspiration & Motivation | Personal Growth

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 02, 2021 | 368 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780593081662

    Category: Music | Inspiration & Motivation | Personal Growth

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 02, 2021 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780593081679

    Category: Music | Inspiration & Motivation | Personal Growth | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Feb 23, 2021 | 674 Minutes | ISBN 9780593293393

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    Praise

    “[A] bit like Carlos Castaneda’s shamanist tales, a bit like tween fiction, a bit like websites on, say, sonic healing through principles of sacred geometry and—at its best—an enactment of epiphanies told in the ping-pong dialogue. . . . It’s a book that stands happily against traditional music pedagogy and canned notions of achievement. This is to its great credit.”  —Ben Ratliff, The Washington Post

    “Wooten, bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, delivers a remarkable fable in which music is dying. . . . This allegorical foray into the power of music is both heartfelt and wildly imaginative. Music lovers will adore this sparkling manifesto.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

    “Part exhortation, part New Age–ish memoir, part philosophical treatise, Wooten’s book is full of surprising and illuminating lessons. . . . [An] always rewarding delight for music fans of a mystical bent.” —Kirkus Reviews

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