Country category: 255 books
Tammy Wynette
Tragic Country Queen
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
The first full-scale biography of the enduring first lady of country music
The twentieth century had three great female singers who plumbed the darkest corners of their hearts and transformed private grief into public dramas. In opera, there was the unsurpassed Maria Callas. In jazz, the tormented...
Comin' Right at Ya
How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
A six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia starts a Western swing band in 1970, when country fans hate hippies and Western swing. It sounds like a joke but—more than forty years, twenty-five albums, and nine Grammy Awards later—Asleep at the Wheel is still drawing crowds around the world....
Bobby Braddock
A Life on Nashville’s Music Row
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
If you know country music, you know Bobby Braddock. Even if you don't know his name, you know the man's work. "He Stopped Loving Her Today." "D-I-V-O-R-C-E." "Golden Ring." "Time Marches On." "I Wanna Talk About Me." "People Are Crazy." These...
Watermelon Wine
The Spirit of Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Originally published 25 years ago, Watermelon Wine was praised for its honest, unsentimental examination of the compassion as well as the passion behind authentic country music. Author Frye Gaillard looked at the commercialization of the Grand Ole Opry; the tradition-minded rebels such as Hank Williams,...
Woman Walk the Line
How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it's...
Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain
Tales of Romance and Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
The Grand Ole Opry has been home to the greatest legends of country music for over eighty years, and in that time it has seen some of conutry music's most dramatic stories unfold.
We'll hear of the great love stories ranging from Johnny Cash and June Carter in the 1960s to Garth Brooks and Trisha...
The Grand Ole Opry
The Making of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009
This official guide chronicles the story of the birthplace of country music as told by the people who were there. Escott presents the official inside history of the home of country music, offering fans an exclusive look into the heart and soul of country music. Full color, and packed with photos from the Opry Archives covering 80 years of history.
A Good-Natured Riot
The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award
Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award
On November 28, 1925, a white-bearded man sat before one of Nashville radio station WSM's newfangled carbon microphones to play a few old-time fiddle tunes. Uncle Jimmy Thompson played on the air for an hour...
Lonesome Melodies
The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Carter and Ralph Stanley--the Stanley Brothers--are comparable to Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs as important members of the earliest generation of bluegrass musicians. In this first biography of the brothers, author David W. Johnson documents that Carter (1925-1966) and Ralph (b. 1927) were equally...
Banjo on the Mountain
Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Wade Mainer (b. 1907) is believed to be the longest-lived country entertainer ever. His banjo lessons began in childhood and he played informally into his adult years, when he joined his brother, fiddler J. E. Mainer (1898-1971), in Mainer's Mountaineers. Music became their ticket out of the cotton...
So Lonesome
Hank Williams and the Creation of Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Hank Williams (1923–53) was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as the most important country music artist of all time, creator of an unforgettable sound and persona that helped to define the genre from its infancy and beyond. Though unable to read or notate music to any substantive...
by Ace Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
More than just charts, star bios, and boring listings, "The Country Music Book of Lists" is the perfect gift or pop reference guide for trivia fans, filled with humor, insight, and "down home fun".
by Doug Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The history of Purdue athletics is sometimes funny, sometimes poignant and triumphant and often pretty amazing -- but always uniquely human. Along the way many characters have arisen in over 11 decades of competition and nearly 200 of these great stories are chronicled in Tales from the Boilermaker...
Around the Opry Table
A Feast of Recipes and Stories from the Grand Ole Opry
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Country music and country cooking fans everywhere will savor this new official cookbook of the Grand Ole Opry and its members, featuring favorite recipes of country music legends past and present and the stories behind them.