It All Happened in Renfro Valley
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780813109756
Subjects: Country & western; Folk music; History of specific subjects; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Kentucky; History; History - General History; Renfro Valley Barn Dance (Radi; Music; USA; Lair, John; General; Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General; United States - 20th Century; Country music; History and criticism; Renfro Valley; Renfro Valley Barn Dance (Radio program)
First sentence: On November 4, 1939, the doors of the Old Barn opened on the very first performance of the Renfro Valley Barn Dance from Renfro Valley.
Description: "For sixty years, Renfro Valley has highlighted some of the biggest and most influential names in country and folk music. What began in the 1930s as a combination radio broadcast and stage performance, has grown into an array of shows and headliner concerts featuring old-time country music, country gospel, modern country, bluegrass, and comedy acts."--BOOK JACKET.

"Pete Stamper, a forty-seven-year veteran of Renfro Valley, traces the show's history from its early radio days in Cincinnati and Chicago, through the glory years in the 1940s, the lean times in the 1960s when rock and roll seemed to take over the music scene, to its renewed popularity in the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.