num_pages: 368
description: This masterful exploration of American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. In incisive portraits based on searching interviews with these legendary performers, Peter Guralnick captures the boundless passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes almost desperately, on the road.
language: English
title: Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
titlecomplete: Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
genres: Essays, Americana, Art, Cultural Studies, Biography, Music, African American, Nonfiction, History, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 799
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: American Book Award
publisher: Back Bay Books