Country Music White Man S Blues
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Country Music White Man S Blues
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Author : John Grissim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Country Music White Man S Blues written by John Grissim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Country music categories.
Stars Of Country Music
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Author : Bill C. Malone
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1975
Stars Of Country Music written by Bill C. Malone and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Country musicians categories.
A collection of essays, written in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Grand Ole Opry, that provides portraits of the personal lives and careers of nineteen country music stars, with a chapter devoted to early pioneers such as Fiddlin' John Carson, and Carl T. Sprague.
White Man S Blues
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Author : Barry Saunders
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-07-01
White Man S Blues written by Barry Saunders and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07-01 with Country music categories.
Desperados
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Author : John Einarson
language : en
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Release Date : 2001-01-16
Desperados written by John Einarson and has been published by Cooper Square Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-16 with Music categories.
The first full history to describe the development of country rock.
Reading Country Music
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Author : Cecelia Tichi
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1998
Reading Country Music written by Cecelia Tichi and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. Bringing together a wide range of scholars and critics from literature, communications, history, sociology, art, and music, this anthology looks at everything from the inner workings of the country music industry to the iconography of certain stars to the development of distinctive styles within the country music genre. 72 photos.
Whiskey River Take My Mind
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Author : Johnny Bush
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2017-05-24
Whiskey River Take My Mind written by Johnny Bush and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Fans of live music will get a kick out of” this Texas Country Music Hall of Famer’s “fond but brutally honest memories, playing gigs with Willie Nelson” (Publishers Weekly). When it comes to Texas honky-tonk, nobody knows the music or the scene better than Johnny Bush. Author of Willie Nelson’s classic concert anthem “Whiskey River,” and singer of hits such as “You Gave Me a Mountain” and “I’ll Be There,” Johnny Bush is a legend in country music, a singer-songwriter who has lived the cheatin’, hurtin’, hard-drinkin’ life and recorded some of the most heart-wrenching songs about it. He has one of the purest honky-tonk voices ever to come out of Texas. And Bush’s career has been just as dramatic as his songs—on the verge of achieving superstardom in the early 1970s, he was sidelined by a rare vocal disorder. But survivor that he is, Bush is once again filling dance halls across Texas and inspiring a new generation of musicians. In Whiskey River (Take My Mind), Johnny Bush tells the twin stories of his life and of Texas honky-tonk music. He recalls growing up poor and learning his chops in honky-tonks around Houston and San Antonio. Bush vividly describes life on the road in the 1960s as a band member for Ray Price and Willie Nelson. Woven throughout Bush's autobiography is the never-before-told story of Texas honky-tonk music, from Bob Wills and Floyd Tillman to Junior Brown and Pat Green. For everyone who loves genuine country music, Johnny Bush, Willie Nelson, and stories of triumph against all odds, Whiskey River (Take My Mind) is a must-read.
Workin Man Blues
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Author : Gerald Haslam
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-04-29
Workin Man Blues written by Gerald Haslam and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-29 with Art categories.
California has been fertile ground for country music since the 1920s, nurturing a multitude of talents from Gene Autry to Glen Campbell, Rose Maddox to Barbara Mandrell, Buck Owens to Merle Haggard. In this affectionate homage to California's place in country music's history, Gerald Haslam surveys the Golden State's contributions to what is today the most popular music in America. At the same time he illuminates the lives of the white, working-class men and women who migrated to California from the Dust Bowl, the Hoovervilles, and all the other locales where they had been turned out, shut down, or otherwise told to move on. Haslam's roots go back to Oildale, in California's central valley, where he first discovered the passion for country music that infuses Workin' Man Blues. As he traces the Hollywood singing cowboys, Bakersfield honky-tonks, western-swing dance halls, "hillbilly" radio shows, and crossover styles from blues and folk music that also have California roots, he shows how country music offered a kind of cultural comfort to its listeners, whether they were oil field roustabouts or hash slingers. Haslam analyzes the effects on country music of population shifts, wartime prosperity, the changes in gender roles, music industry economics, and television. He also challenges the assumption that Nashville has always been country music's hometown and Grand Ole Opry its principal venue. The soul of traditional country remains romantically rural, southern, and white, he says, but it is also the anthem of the underdog, which may explain why California plays so vital a part in its heritage: California is where people reinvent themselves, just as country music has reinvented itself since the first Dust Bowl migrants arrived, bringing their songs and heartaches with them.
We Take Care Of Our Own
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Author : June Skinner Sawyers
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2024-09-15
We Take Care Of Our Own written by June Skinner Sawyers and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-15 with Music categories.
We Take Care of Our Own traces the evolution of Bruce Springsteen’s beliefs, beginning with his New Jersey childhood and ending with his most recent works from Springsteen on Broadway to Letter to You. The author follows the singer’s life, examining his albums and a variety of influences (both musical and nonmusical), especially his Catholic upbringing and his family life, to show how he became an outspoken icon for working-class America—indeed for working-class life throughout the world. In this way, the author emphasizes the universality of Springsteen’s canon and depicts how a working-class sensibility can apply to anyone anywhere who believes in fairness and respect. In addition, the author places Springsteen in the historical context not only of literature (especially John Steinbeck) but also of the art world (specifically the work of Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hopper). Among the themes explored in the book include community, a sense of place, America as the Promised Land, the myth of the West, and, ultimately, mortality.
Meeting Jimmie Rodgers
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Author : Barry Mazor
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-05-15
Meeting Jimmie Rodgers written by Barry Mazor and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Meeting Jimmie Rodgers, the first book to explore the deep legacy of "The Singing Brakeman" from a twenty-first century perspective, Barry Mazor offers a lively look at Rodgers' career, tracing his rise from working-class obscurity to the pinnacle of renown that came with such hits as "Blue Yodel" and "In the Jailhouse Now." As Mazor shows, Rodgers brought emotional clarity and a unique sense of narrative drama to every song he performed, whether tough or sentimental, comic or sad. His wistful singing, falsetto yodels, bold flat-picking guitar style, and sometimes censorable themes--sex, crime, and other edgy topics--set him apart from most of his contemporaries. But more than anything else, Mazor suggests, it was Rodgers' shape-shifting ability to assume many public personas--working stiff, decked-out cowboy, suave ladies' man--that connected him to such a broad public and set the stage for the stars who followed him. In reconstructing this far-flung legacy, Mazor enables readers to meet Rodgers and his music anew-not as an historical figure, but as a vibrant, immediate force.
Sam Phillips The Man Who Invented Rock N Roll
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Author : Peter Guralnick
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date : 2015-11-10
Sam Phillips The Man Who Invented Rock N Roll written by Peter Guralnick and has been published by Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography: Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical day. With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over a 25-year period with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, or Thomas Edison.