The Spirit of Music, Victor L. Wooten
The Spirit of Music, Victor L. Wooten
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The Spirit of Music
The Lesson Continues

Author: Victor L. Wooten

Narrator: Victor L. Wooten, Various

Unabridged: 11 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/23/2021

Synopsis

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

About The Author

VICTOR WOOTEN, now a five-time Grammy winner, is a founding member of the super-group Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Victor has also become widely known for his own Grammy nominated solo recordings and tours. Among other accomplishments he is a skilled naturalist, teacher, author, magician, and acrobat and has won every major award given to a bass guitarist including being voted Bassist of the Year in Bass Player Magazine's readers' poll three times (the only person to win it more than once.) In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine voted Victor one of the Top Ten Bassists of all time. Victor has been heralded as "the Michael Jordan of the bass" and "one of the most fearless musicians on the planet."

Reviews

Goodreads review by greggo on February 21, 2021

i loved the first book, the music lesson, and i kept wanting to love this one but it’s less of a lesson and more an incoherent pile of coincidences, tensionless conflict, and vague complaints about the ‘digital era’ that is so preoccupied with the power of magical thinking to prevail over any foe th......more

Goodreads review by Zibby on May 10, 2021

The Spirit of Music is a beautiful story that reads like a love letter to music and its role in the author's life. In this fable-like story, three musicians go to Nashville to join Victor to battle against the "Phasers," whose "music-canceling" headphones destroy music. Only "live" music can restore......more

Goodreads review by Arnie on March 14, 2021

Victor Wooten and his cast of characters from The Music Lesson return to help him save music from disappearing. The very real Wooten Family wisdom and magic is lovingly tucked between these pages. ( I know it's real because I've seen and heard it for myself in person!) Fantasy? Fiction? Maybe, or ma......more

Goodreads review by Johnny on April 15, 2021

This book, unlike the first installment, has no direction. In the Music Lesson we were given 10 elements of music which were weaved into a sort of fantastical story with a fair share of new age "woo woo". Whereas this book is ALL "woo woo" and zero substance. I would say it's a mix between The DaVin......more

Goodreads review by Mark on April 22, 2021

A deep dive into the importance of music in the world by telling a story of it being attacked and saved.......more

Quotes

“[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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