Country & Bluegrass

'Lovingly detailed and exhaustively researched - easily the most readable and comprehensive guide I've seen to this fascinating hidden history' Tom Robinson, musician, broadcaster and long-time LGBT rights activist From Sia to Elton John, Dusty...

July, 1967: It seems the entire country stopped to listen to a husky voice steeped in the simmering secrets of the South tell a tragic tale of teenage suicide. So much for the Summer of Love. "Ode to Billie Joe" knocked the Beatles' "All You Need is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480382879Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 514Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

As told by the musicians who made it happen, Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock revisits country rock's rise to the top of the charts. Music scholar John Einarson delves into the years from 1963, when Buck Owens and his Buckaroos brought an electric...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915608331Author Peter CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Country Music Foundation Press,U.S.Publisher Country Music Foundation Press,U.S...

For more than half a century, Kenny Rogers has been recording some of the most revered and beloved music in America and around the world. In that time, he has become a living legend by combining everything from R and B to country and gospel to folk in...

Legends have to start somewhere... Witness the King of Rock 'n' Roll's humble beginnings in Memphis as a young artist struggling to define his voice and break into the music industry. From the history-making Sun Studio to television sets across the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560256731Author Jessica HundleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth PressWeight(grams) 344gDimensions(mm)...

The definitive biography of country legend Merle Haggard by the New York Times bestselling biographer of Clint Eastwood, Cary Grant, The Eagles, and more.Merle Haggard was one of the most important country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing...

Now for the first time, country music authority Charles K. Wolfe gathers together his profiles of 50 legends of country music, including Bill Monroe, Lefty Frizzell, and Kitty Wells.About the AuthorCharles K. Wolfe, Professor of English at Middle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063087781Author Miranda LambertFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 454g

Dolly Parton All the Songs is an album-by-album, track-by-track deep dive into the almost 60 year career of a musical icon. This completist's guide features more than 400 photographs, and tells the little-known stories behind how each of Dolly's albums...

Before he achieved his dream of being an internationally known rock personality, Ryan Adams had a band in Raleigh, North Carolina. Whiskeytown led the wave of insurgent-country bands that came of age with No Depression magazine in the mid-1990s, and for...

The Little Book of Country Music Wisdom offers the wise, unvarnished words of country stars past and present on a variety of topics like love, family, fun, work, health, heartache and even death to offer the full, big-picture view of country wisdom...

The twentieth anniversary paperback edition, updated with a new prefaceThe twentieth anniversary paperback edition, updated with a new prefaceAbout the AuthorGrammy Award winner Neil V. Rosenberg is professor emeritus of folklore at Memorial University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540091758Author Hal Leonard CorpPage Count 272Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Birdland was a legendary nightclub in New York City and, from 1949 to 1965, was the scene for the greatest jazz music and musicians in the world. This illustrated book offers a history of this legendary jazz club and presents the greats who played its...

Offering a unique glimpse into the Gram Parsons legend that has never been offered before this book is the inside story by his bandmate and travelling partner from the The International Submarine Band. Set between September 1965 and June 1968 it follows...

The page-turning, never-before-told story of Kim Campbell's roller-coaster thirty-four-year marriage to music legend Glen Campbell, including how Kim helped Glen finally conquer his addictions only to face their greatest challenge when he was diagnosed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915608430Author Margaret JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Country Music Foundation Press,U.S.Publisher Country Music Foundation Press,U.S...

Mickey Newbury (1940-2002) grew up in Houston and moved to Nashville in the early 1960s, following his muse. He wrote top hits for many well-known artists, including Don Gibson, Andy Williams, Kenny Rogers, Tom Jones, and others. He is probably best...

How Nashville Became Music City, U.S.A. was first published in 2006 and quickly became the go-to reference for those seeking to understand the Nashville music industry, or write about it. Now, Michael Kosser, prolific songwriter and author, returns with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781705131152Author Chris StapletonPage Count 64Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883206406Author Wayne ErbsenPage Count 180Imprint Native Ground Music, IncorporatedPublisher Native Ground Music, Incorporated

2023 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound Collections 2023 The Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, American Musicological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609499532Author Michael C. ScogginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky sits a sagging outdoor stage buried in moss and dead leaves. It used to be the centrepiece of carnival-like Sunday afternoons where local guitarists, fiddlers and mandolin players hammered out old mountain...

In this day of digital delivery, more and more popular music arrives to its listeners in downloadable bits, giving away very little about where the songs come from or who is behind them. At the same time contemporary popular culture, with its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440223733Author George JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic BooksWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 106mm *...

Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country's most obvious...

With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. The most popular music in America today, it's also big business. Amazing, then, that country music has been so little studied by critics, given its...

For thirty years, Leftover Salmon has blended musical styles from rock and bluegrass to zydeco and Cajun into an undeniably original sound and forever influenced generations of bands from across the musical spectrum. Emerging from the progressive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574241044Author Randy NolesPage Count 256Imprint Centerstream PublishingPublisher Centerstream Publishing

For almost five decades, the band known as Riders in the Sky ("America's Favorite Cowboys") has entertained and delighted audiences in Nashville and throughout the United States with their mixture of quirky sendups of the silver-screen Western and their...

Part memoir, part oral history, Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music traces Tamara Saviano's remarkable journey through the rise of the Americana music genre. Spanning more than three decades, Saviano unfolds the story of Americana-country...

Country music of late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the flowering hippie counterculture. But in 1972, the city of Austin, Texas became host to a growing community of musicians, entrepreneurs,...

The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built is the first book entirely dedicated to one of the most influential music labels of the twentieth century. In addition to creating the largest bluegrass catalogue throughout the 1950s and '60s,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596290983Author Dan William PeekFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Country music, an original American artform, has been around since before the recording industry began and long before a singer even had the opportunity to sing into a microphone. From the early beginnings in the hills of Appalachia, to the rise of Hank...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950961610Author Lowry Global Media LLCFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Lowry Global Media LLCPublisher Lowry Global Media LLCWeight(grams)...