Workin' man blues
Subtitle: country music in California
By: Gerald W. Haslam ; with Alexandra Haslam Russell and Richard Chon.
Contributors: Haslam, Alexandra R., 1963-; Chon, Richard.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Country music -- California -- History and criticism
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-356) and indexes.