The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues Audiobook

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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"[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