Shreveport sounds in black & white
By: edited by Kip Lornell and Tracey E.W. Laird.
Contributors: Lornell, Kip, 1953-.; Laird, Tracey E. W.
Series: American made music series
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781934110416; 9781934110423
Subjects: Folk music -- Louisiana -- Shreveport -- History and criticism.; Folk musicians -- Louisiana.
Other titles: Shreveport sounds in black and white
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Country. Introduction from Louisiana Hayride : radio and roots music along the Red River / Tracey E.W. Laird ; The Grigg family and the Taylor-Griggs Melody Makers : the history of a north Louisiana string band / Monty Brown ; The Cox family / Susan Roach ; Remembering Hiter Colvin, the fiddle king of Oilfield and Gum Stump / J. Michael Luster ; Sing it good, sing it strong, sing it loud : the music of Governor Jimmie Davis / Kevin Fontenot ; Louisiana's honky-tonk man : Buddy Jones, 1935-41 / Donald Lee Nelson ; Interview with Horace Logan, October 13, 1976 / Earl Porter ; Getting the sound right : Bob "Sully" Sullivan, KWKH, and the Louisiana Hayride / Steven Morewood ; Beyond country music / Tracey E.W. Laird; value: Blues. Fannin Street / Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell ; Some Negro songs heard on the hills of north Louisiana / Vallie Tinsley ; Jerry's saloon blues : 1940 field recordings from Louisiana / Paul Oliver ; Jesse "Babyface" Thomas / Eleanor Ellis ; The Flying Crow blues / Paul Swinton ; The legend of old blue goose / Dan Garner ; Down-home postwar blues in Shreveport / John M. Shaw; value: Radio, records, and rhythm. A historical study of programming techniques and practices of radio station KWKH, Shreveport, LA, 1922-1950 / Lillian Jones Hall ; A friend in Las Vegas / H. Allen Smith ; Stan Lewis / Randy McNutt ; "Reconsider me" : Margaret Lewis Warwick and the Louisiana Hayride / Tracey E.W. Laird ; The making of Dale Hawkins / David Anderson and Lesley-Anne Reed ; The life and times of Dandy Don Logan / Don Logan ; Shreveport southern soul : the Murco story / John Ridley ; Eddie Giles and Reuben Bell : synonymous with Shreveport / John M. Shaw ; Shreveport's pop/rock music scene : the 1970s and 1980s / John Andrew Prime.