Country category: 255 books
Country Music Broke My Brain
A Behind-the-Microphone Peek at Nashville's Famous & Fabulous Stars
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The Nashville radio host’s “highly entertaining” memoir of getting personal with the biggest names in country music—“one of the genre’s funniest apostles”(Paste).
Nashville is filled with stars, lovers, writers, and dreamers. It’s also teeming with lunatics, grifters, and moochers....
Country Music
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This illustrated A-Z guide covers more than 700 country music artists, groups, and bands. Articles also cover specific genres within country music as well as instruments used. Written in a lively, engaging style, the entries not only outline the careers of country music's greatest artists, they provide...
Creating Country Music
Fabricating Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
In Creating Country Music, Richard Peterson traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumous success of Hank Williams. Peterson captures the free-wheeling entrepreneurial spirit of the era, detailing...
Country Music Changed My Life
Tales of Tough Times and Triumph from Country's Legends
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In this book based on new interviews, some of country music's greatest stars share personal moments of redemption, inspiration, and heartache related to the music that shaped their lives. Brenda Lee explains how her childhood singing gift raised her entire family out of dire poverty, and Pat Boone...
Voices of the Country
Interviews with Classic Country Performers
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2004
"Voices of the Country" presents interviews with innovative musicians, producers, and songwriters who shaped the last fifty years of country music. From Eddy Arnold's new, smoother approach to song delivery to Loretta Lynn's take-no-prisoners feminism, these people opened new vistas in country...
by Leigh H. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Dolly Parton is instantly recognizable for her iconic style and persona, but how did she create her enduring image? Dolly crafted her exaggerated appearance and stage personality by combining two opposing stereotypes—the innocent mountain girl and the voluptuous sex symbol. Emerging through her...
Real Country
Music and Language in Working-Class Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2004
In Lockhart, Texas, a rural working-class town just south of Austin, country music is a way of life. Conversation slips easily into song, and the songs are full of conversation. Anthropologist and musician Aaron A. Fox spent years in Lockhart making research notes, music, and friends. In Real Country,...
Country Soul
Making Music and Making Race in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Have you already exhausted the Gig Books of Acoustic Hits, or Classic Rock, or Number 1 Hits? Got a gig coming up in a Country bar? Well, you’re in luck.
The Gig Book: Country is jam packed with classic country songs by the biggest names of the genre. Presented with melody line arrangements...
Sing Me Back Home
Southern Roots and Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
For over fifty years, Bill C. Malone has researched and written about the history of country music. Today he is celebrated as the foremost authority on this distinctly American genre. This new collection brings together his significant article-length work from a variety of sources, including essays,...
The Nashville Family Album
A Country Music Scrapbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Alan Mayor has spent the last 25 years photographing the stars of Nashville for record albums, music events, and in personal and candid settings. Now, he gives country music fans some of the greatest photographs ever taken of Nashville and the stars - along with her personal observations. Chapters...
The Grand Tour
The Life and Music of George Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
In the vein of the classic Johnny Cash: The Life, this groundbreaking work explores the wild life and extraordinary musical career of “the definitive country singer of the last half century” (New York Times), who influenced, among others, Bob Dylan, Buck Owens, Emmylou Harris, John Fogerty, George...
by Gerry Wood
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Follow Gerry Wood on his journey with country music's biggest stars, featuring Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Shania Twain and many more familiar names in the industry. Tales from Country Music will take you backstage and behind the scenes with some of your favorite country music singers.
He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest Country Record of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
When George Jones recorded "He Stopped Loving Her Today" more than thirty years ago, he was a walking disaster. Twin addictions to drugs and alcohol had him drinking Jim Beam by the case and snorting cocaine as long as he was awake. Before it was over, Jones would be bankrupt, homeless,...