Lost Highway (Enhanced Edition)

Author: Peter Guralnick
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316199486
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 563

Book Description
This masterful explorationof American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. In incisive portraits based on searching interviews with these legendary performers, Peter Guralnick captures the boundless passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes almost desperately, on the road. This enhanced edition includes: Exclusive video footage prepared specifically for the enhanced eBook that has never been seen before. Rare audio clips.

Lost Highway

Author: Peter Guralnick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140148824
Category : Musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Lost Highway

Author: Peter Guralnick
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780394752150
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
Depicts the lives of American musicians who create and perform country and blues music, creating from a union of the two rockabilly, and includes text and photographs on such performers as Elvis, Charlie Rich, and Johnny Cash

Lost Highway

Author: Peter Guralnick
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316255813
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
LOST HIGHWAY spotlights Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Merle Haggard, and others in a tribute to American country music, the blues, and their revolutionary offspring, rockabilly. "You put the book down feeling that its sweep is vast, that you have read of giants who walked among us".--Lester Bangs, LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER. 140 photos.

Lost Highway

Author: Peter Guralnick
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316191227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Lost highway

Author: Peter Guralnick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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I Don't Sound Like Nobody

Author: Albin Zak
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472035126
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
A definitive study of the most important decade in post-World War II popular music history

Popular Music Perspectives

Author: B. Lee Cooper
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879725051
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
In thirteen essays, this book probes ideas and themes that are prominent in contemporary song lyrics. The essays take social change, human interaction, technology, and intellectual development as points of departure for specific examinations of public education, railroads, death, automobiles, and rebels. The essays also examine humor, traditions, and historical events found in answer songs, cover recordings, nursery rhyme adaptations, and novelty tunes.

Dancing to a Black Man's Tune

Author: Susan Curtis
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826215475
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
As one of the creators of ragtime, Joplin moved between black and white society, and his experience offers a window into the complex forces of class, race, and culture that shaped modern America.

The B.B. King Reader

Author: Richard Kostelanetz
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780634099274
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
B.B. King is a national treasure. For more than five decades, he has been the consummate blues performer. His unique guitar playing, powerful vocals, and repertoire of songs have taken him from tiny Itta Bena, Mississippi, to worldwide renown. In this comprehensive volume, the best articles, interviews and reviews about B.B. King's life and career have been gathered. Learn how he first made his mark as a disc jockey in Memphis hawking "Pepticon" elixir and taking the moniker of the "Beale Street Blues Boy"; trace his early tours and recordings; see him be swept up in the blues revival; and finally, enjoy his fame as the greatest living exponent of the blues style.