Elijah Wald is an American folk blues guitarist, music journalist, and a blues, pop, and cultural music historian. He is a 2002 Grammy Award winner for his liner notes to The Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Box: The Journey of Chris Strachwitz. Wald's 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties served as the basis for the film A Complete Unknown.

Narcocorrido
2012
ISBN 9780062018595
Global Minstrels
2006
ISBN 9780203944189
How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll
2009
ISBN 9780195341546
Josh White
2013
ISBN 9781306214858
EXPLODING GENE MYTH PA
1994
ISBN 9780807004197
El Mito Del Gen/ The Myth of Gen
1999
ISBN 9788420644936
Escaping the Delta
2004
ISBN 9780060524272
Riding with strangers
2006
ISBN 9781556526909
The Mayor of Macdougal Street
2006
ISBN 9780306814792
The blues
2010
ISBN 9780195398939
The dozens
2012
ISBN 9781280595820
Dylan goes electric!
2015
ISBN 9780062366696
The Blues: A Very Short Introduction