Country Music Originals
Subtitle: The Legends and the Lost
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: October 9, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780195325096
Subjects: Country & western; Country And Western Music; Music; Music/Songbooks; USA; Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General; History & Criticism - General; Music / Country; Historical - General; Biography; Country music; Country musicians; History and criticism
Description: "In this sparkling collection, "roots" music authority Tony Russell offers vivid portraits of the men and women who created country music, the artists whose lives and songs formed the rich tradition from which Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, The Dixie Chicks, and so many others have drawn their inspiration. Included here are not only such major figures as Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, Fiddlin' John Carson, Charlie Poole, and Gene Autry, who put country music on America's cultural map in the 1920s and '30s, but many fascinating lesser-known figures as well, such as Carson Robison, Otto Gray, Chris Bouchillon, Emry Arthur and dozens more, many of whose stories are told here for the first time. To map some of the winding, untraveled roads that connect today's music to its ancestors, Russell draws upon new research and rare source material, such as contemporary newspaper reports and magazine articles, internet genealogy sites, and his own interviews with the musicians or their families" -- publisher website (February 2008).