Country category: 255 books
by DAVID PHILLIPS
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Country singer Judd Rich is frustrated. His gigs go well but he is getting nowhere and his next gig is out of Darwin, miles from country music action.
Mick Turner is a drunk and feels he is washed up for good. He needs something to fire him up or he feels there may be nothing to live for.
They...
Outlaw
Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Outlaw by acclaimed author Michael Streissguth follows the stories of three legends as they redefined country music: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.
Streissguth delves into the country music scene in the late '60s and early '70s, when these rebels found themselves in...
For the Music
The Vince Gill Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
TO LOVE MUSIC IS TO LOVE VINCE GILL
His pure tenor voice, amazing guitar playing, and superb songwriting skills have earned Vince Gill eleven Grammies and seventeen Country Music Association Awards--making him the biggest CMA winner of all time. But it's the man behind the music who inspires...
The Bakersfield Sound
How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
In California’s Central Valley, two thousand miles away from country music’s hit machine, the hard edge of the Bakersfield Sound transformed American music in the latter half of the twentieth century. It turned displaced Oklahomans like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard into household names, and it...
The Nashville Sound
Bright Lights and Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
While on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, journalist and novelist Paul Hemphill wrote of that pivotal moment in the late sixties when traditional defenders of the hillbilly roots of country music were confronted by the new influences and business realities of pop music. The demimonde of the traditional...
by Chris Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Dolly Parton, the undisputed "Queen of Country Music," sold over 100 million records around the world. Dolly is not just singer, songwriter. She's also involved in acting and films. During her diverse career, she eliminated the myth of "dumb blondes," as she is advocating women empowerment and...
Behind Closed Doors
Talking with the Legends of Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2002
Interviews with 27 country stars reveal the range of personalities and viewpoints that make up today's country music scene. Journalist Alanna Nash speaks in candid interviews with performers about Nashville's music industry, changes in the country audience over the past thirty years, and their own...
Margo: Queen of Country & Irish
The Promise and the Dream
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
The official memoir of Margo O'Donnell, legendary Irish Country Music singer
For fifty years now the name 'Margo' has been synonymous with everything that is positive and enriching in Country and Irish music. Blessed with an instantly recognisable voice, a voice unlike any other in the music...
River of Tears
Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing música sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil’s central-southern region to become national...
by R. Crumb
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Anyone who knows R. Crumb’s work as an illustrator knows of his passion for music. And all those who collect his work prize the Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country Music trading card sets he created in the early to- mid-1980s. Now they are packaged together for the first...
by Eric Edstrom
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
This breezy, easy-to-read, 6800 word eBooklet will teach you the fundamentals of writing lyrics for hit country songs.
The author has analyzed in detail hundreds of hit songs to find commonalities among them. This eBooklet distills that info to show you what makes hit songs tick. Topics covered...
Gone to the Country
The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Gone to the Country chronicles the life and music of the New Lost City Ramblers, a trio of city-bred musicians who helped pioneer the resurgence of southern roots music during the folk revival of the late 1950s and 1960s. Formed in 1958 by Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley, the Ramblers introduced...
Elvis, Strait, to Jesus
An Iconic Producer's Journey with Legends of Rock 'n' Roll, Country, and Gospel Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
"In the world of modern country music history, Tony Brown has earned a critical spot...[as] one of the top creative minds of the past four decades." --Billboard.com
This striking photographic journey shows how Tony Brown became the King of Nashville: from pianist for Elvis Presley,...
by Mark Ribowsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
"A compassionate yet clear-eyed" (Washington Post) portrait of country music’s founding father and "Hillbilly King."
Mark Ribowsky’s Hank has been hailed as the "greatest biography yet" (Library Journal, starred review) of the beloved icon. Hank Williams, a...