The Spirit of Music

The Lesson Continues

By: Victor L. Wooten

Narrated by: Victor L. Wooten, full cast

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 and truck-stop employee
• Sam Lutomia as Ali
• Ryoko Suzuki as Seiko
• India Arie as the music and 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

©2020 Victor L. Wooten (P)2020 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

“[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)

Who are YOU?

This is an inspiring book for any musician to recognize that YOU are a one of a kind unique creation on this amazing planet, so PLAY! 🥰🥰

unique and different

a unique and interesting story with melodic interludes. definitely and enjoyable. listen from an amazing bass player and musician

Music is magic

As a musician, the first book of Vitor Wooden had enlightened me so much. I felt everything he said in the book but couldn’t say it out myself. This sequel book is good, not as enlightening as the first one though. The story was a bit too expiatory, the ending was the highlight of this book. I still love it.

Amazing

This is deeper than an insight to the spirit of music. Waiting on Michael to show up at my door (or Victor) lol....

Remembering Who I Am

Thank you Victor, The Spirit of Music, has given me a renewed and more purposeful pathway. My life journey continues and has been awaked again to help define "who am I". Thanks Victor for showing so much to me through The Spirit of Music. Namaste, Felton