A Million Memory Project imprint

Sound Archive Books

Books for the future of music.

Sound Archive Books helps artists, labels, venues, and music communities turn songs, lyrics, photographs, artwork, and archives into books. Fans get something to keep, and artists get another source of income.

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Why books

Music creates stories. Books give them a place to live.

Albums go out of print.

Tours end.

Posts get buried.

A book gives music a physical form that fans can hold, revisit, collect, and share.

Who it’s for

Books for artists, labels, and venues.

From an artist’s career to the room where it was heard.

Artists

Career retrospectives, lyric collections, and children’s books. Each one draws on the artist’s own songs, photographs, and archives, and gives fans something to take home from the show.

Labels

Catalog and anniversary books, roster histories, and companion books for reissues. A book gathers the label’s history in one place, from the first release to the artists it works with today.

Venues

The history of the room: photos, posters, setlists, and stories from the people who were there. Made for regulars, the bands who played, and fans who missed it.

Our projects

Recent books from Sound Archive Books.

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Coming Soon Sound Archive Books
Career Retrospective
Happy, Lonesome, and Free: The Songs and Dirty Work of Pierce Edens
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Some musicians make records. Some make a life. The story of Pierce Edens, twenty years, six records, and the Madison County hollers he keeps coming home to, with the complete lyrics to every song.
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Illustrated
Conrad the Caterpillar: The Official Children's Book Adaptation
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By Widespread Panic
Illustrated by Rattlesnakes and Rainbows
Based on the Widespread Panic song, Conrad the Caterpillar has a big change coming. Illustrations by Rattlesnakes and Rainbows (Sarah Stewart) follow him through every stage of his metamorphosis.
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Children's Book
Abigail: and the Journey of a Pack Horse Librarian
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By Sarah McCombie
Illustrated by Kelley Wills
A Chatham Rabbits song transformed into a hand-painted story of the Kentucky Pack Horse Librarians of the Great Depression, for families, classrooms, and young readers. Includes an educator's guide.
$40.00 Buy at Sound Archive Books