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

Book Description

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.

Sweet Soul Music

Author: Peter Guralnick
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031620675X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 655

Book Description
A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and liberating energy of a nation in transition, Sweet Soul Music is an intimate portrait of the legendary performers--Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among them--who merged gospel and rhythm and blues to create Southern soul music. Through rare interviews and with unique insight, Peter Guralnick tells the definitive story of the songs that inspired a generation and forever changed the sound of American music.

Checklist of Writings on American Music, 1640-1992

Author: Guy A. Marco
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810831339
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Cumulative index to all three volumes of Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music Collections.

Looking to Get Lost

Author: Peter Guralnick
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316412643
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 576

Book Description
By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick’s remarkable work, which from the start has encompassed the full sweep of blues, gospel, country, and rock 'n' roll. It covers old ground from new perspectives, offering deeply felt, masterful, and strikingly personal portraits of creative artists, both musicians and writers, at the height of their powers. “You put the book down feeling that its sweep is vast, that you have read of giants who walked among us,” rock critic Lester Bangs wrote of Guralnick’s earlier work in words that could just as easily be applied to this new one. And yet, for all of the encomiums that Guralnick’s books have earned for their remarkable insights and depth of feeling, Looking to Get Lost is his most personal book yet. For readers who have grown up on Guralnick’s unique vision of the vast sweep of the American musical landscape, who have imbibed his loving and lively portraits and biographies of such titanic figures as Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, and Sam Phillips, there are multiple surprises and delights here, carrying on and extending all the themes, fascinations, and passions of his groundbreaking earlier work. One of NPR’s Best Books of 2020 One of Kirkus Review/Rolling Stone’s Top Music Books of 2020 One of No Depression’s Best Books of 2020

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Author: Lester Bangs
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
ISBN: 1847655580
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for distinguishing the pre-packaged imitation from the real thing; written in a conversational, wisecracking, erotically charged style, his hallucinatory hagiographies and excoriating take-downs reveal an iconoclast unafraid to tell it like it is. To his journalism he brought the talent of a great a renegade Beat poet, and his essays, reviews and scattered notes convey the electric thrill of a music junky indulging the habit of a lifetime. As Greil Marcus writes in his introduction, 'What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.'

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.