Why Every Musician Suddenly Has an Audiobook
Hazel Monroe · May 15, 2024 · 6 min read
Cassia Rue's Two-Lane Heart and Elias Thorne's Static Cathedral: A Memoir have something in common beyond the charts: the artist is in the booth.
The voice is the value
Self-narration is the whole appeal. You're not buying the story so much as the delivery — the pauses, the laugh, the song they can't help playing between chapters.
What to listen for
The best of these treat the audiobook like an album: paced, sequenced, produced. The worst are a PDF read aloud. On our scale, production and performance separate them fast.
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