Country category: 255 books

True story of country legend George Strait including a fan's tribute.

A&R Pioneers offers the first comprehensive account of the diverse group of men and women who pioneered artists-and-repertoire (A&R) work in the early US recording industry. In the process, they helped create much of what we now think of as American roots music. Resourceful, innovative, and,...

In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how...

Written in the late 1970s, this Country-Western song is for piano and vocalist and includes chords that can be used by guitarists. This ballad is written in the key of C major and uses basic chords so instrumentalists can improvise. A lyrics only page is included for a vocalist who has learned the melody. A transposition wheel can be helpful to place song in a more convenient key.

Covering three generations of Hank Williams, Family Tradition is both unique and vast in scope. Beginning in the present day with Hank III – who gave the author unprecedented access – and time-traveling across the years, this examines just what kind of rebel mojo inspired this crazed family of...

Every now and then, a song inspires a cultural conversation that ends up looking like a brawl. Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee, released in 1969, is a prime example of that important role of popular music. Okie immediately helped to frame an ongoing discussion about region and class, pride and...

What drives a man to spend 26 years performing night after night? To persevere through a stifling tour bus, bad food, strange women, flared tempers, a plane nearly blown from the sky? Just how did that troubled military brat with a dream claw his way from dirt-floor dive-bar shows to the world’s...

Louisiana Fiddlers shines light on sixty-two of the bayou state's most accomplished fiddlers of the twentieth century. Author Ron Yule outlines the lives and times of these performers, who represent a multitude of fiddling styles including Cajun, country, western swing, zydeco, bluegrass, Irish, contest...

Exclusive CD! Brooks & Dunn's "Gotta Get Me One of Those" inside! Musicians by trade, Slim and Howdy have each come to a figurative crossroads in their lives. As fate would have it, they meet at these crossroads, never realizing it's a turning point in their lives. Forced by circumstances...

This song is a tribute to the country music performed at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville, TN. It was written in the 1970s and is in the Key of F. Lyrics are in the sheet music and there also is a separate "Lyrics Only" sheet for vocalists to use.

This Country-Western song is in the key of F. The sheet music includes lyrics and there also is a "Lyrics Only" sheet for vocalists. The lyrics for this song appear in the novel "Texas Bootstomp Boogie."

Written in the late 1970s, this Country-Western song is for piano and vocalist and includes chords that can be used by guitarists. This ballad is written in the key of C major and uses basic chords so instrumentalists can improvise. A lyrics only page is included for a vocalist who has learned the melody. A transposition wheel can be helpful to place song in a more convenient key.

This Country-Western ballad was written in the 1970s. In addition to the music of melody (treble clef) and basic chords (bass clef) is a vocal clef with lyrics below and guitar chord notations above. The key is F Major.

Music City Myth is an insider's look at the choices, rewards, and the possible perils that await would be songwriters and entertainers who decide to come to Nashville with the hope of making it in the glamorous but often gritty world of country music. Songs sharks do indeed swim in Nashville's murky waters, and this book just might be the one thing that keeps you from becoming fish food.