Country category: 255 books
Fifty Cents and a Box Top
The Creative Life of Nashville Session Musician Charlie McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
From Ann-Margret to Bob Dylan and George Jones to Simon & Garfunkel, Nashville harmonica virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist Charlie McCoy has contributed to some of the most successful recordings of country, pop, and rock music of the last six decades. As the leader of the Hee Haw “Million-Dollar...
by Dick Spottswood
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
During the 1940s, country music was rapidly evolving from traditional songs and string band styles to honky-tonk, western swing, and bluegrass, via radio, records, and film. The Blue Sky Boys, brothers Bill (1917-2008) and Earl (1919-1998) Bolick, resisted the trend, preferring to perform folk and...
Louisiana Hayride
Radio and Roots Music along the Red River
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
On a Saturday night in 1948, Hank Williams stepped onto the stage of the Louisiana Hayride and sang "Lovesick Blues." Up to that point, Williams's yodeling style had been pigeon-holed as hillbilly music, cutting him off from the mainstream of popular music. Taking a chance on this untried artist,...
Born for the Road
My Story So Far
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Nathan Carter has become Ireland's biggest country music star. He is heralded by many as reviving the country music genre and bringing it into the mainstream. He has sold out venues across the UK and Ireland, has landed his own primetime show, and is loved and respected by legions of fans across Ireland.
But...
An Outlaw and a Lady
A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith that Brought Me Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Renowned songwriter, singer, and wife of Waylon Jennings writes an intimate, enormously entertaining memoir of American music, of life with Waylon and the Outlaws, and of faith lost and found.
The daughter of a Pentecostal evangelist and a race-car driver, Jessi Colter played piano and sang...
Looking Back to See
A Country Music Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
A vocal group without peer, The Browns were central artists in the changing sound of country and American popular music at mid-century. They were part of major changes in the entertainment business and American culture, participated in the folk music movement in the ‘60’s, and saw the steady birth...
by Stephen Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Smart Blonde: Dolly Parton is a comprehensive and revealing biography which includes interviews with family members, musicians and producers who have worked with Dolly over the years. This new and fully updated edition includes a detailed section on the superstar's legendary performance at 2014's...
by Wensley Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Johnny Cash's death in September 2003 left the music world bereft. His was the most recognisable voice in the history of country music and indeed in the history of recorded music itself. Building musical bridges between the worlds of country, folk, rock and even gospel, Cash's influence is as immeasurable...
by George Jones, Tom Carter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Boozing. Womanizing. Brawling. Singing. For the last forty years George Jones has reigned as the country's king--the singer many have called the Frank Sinatra of country. And for most of that time, his career has been marked by hard-living, hard-loving, and hard luck. From his early east Texas recordings...
Luck or Something Like It
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
A living legend of Country Music and a worldwide music icon, superstar Kenny Rogers has enjoyed a fascinating five decades in show business, and he tells the full story of his remarkable life and career in Luck or Something Like It. From his days with hit group The First Edition to his sterling solo...
Dream Come True
The LeAnn Rimes Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
THE DAZZLING RISE OF A YOUNG COUNTRY STAR
Who is this singer with the incredible voice, the youngest ever artist ever nominated for a Country Music Association Award, and winner of the Grammy Award for Best New Artist? Jo Sgammato traveled from Nashville to LeAnn's hometown of Pearl, Mississippi,...
Desperados
The Roots of Country Rock
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2001
The first full history to describe the development of country rock.
Shania Twain
An Intimate Portrait of a Country Music Diva
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Shania Twain is not your average pop star. She has mega-hits like "You're Still the One", multi-platinum albums (Come on Over)...but she's much more than merely the sum of her success. Growing up in rural Canada amidst great poverty. Shania spent summers working for her father in a reforestation...
Homeplace
A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
An intimate account of country music, social change, and a vanishing way of life as a Shenandoah town collides with the twenty-first century
Winchester, Virginia is an emblematic American town. When John Lingan first traveled there, it was to seek out Jim McCoy: local honky-tonk owner and the...