They Came to Nashville
Peter Guralnick and Marshall Chapman
Book
Chapman records the personal stories of musicians shaping the modern history of music in Nashville,...
Soul Mining: A Musical Life
Book
Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, U2, Peter Gabriel, and the Neville Brothers all have one...
Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock
Book
On September 19, 1973, Gram Parsons became yet another rock-and-roll casualty in an era of excess, a...
Comin' Right at Ya: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel
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A six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia starts a Western swing band in 1970, when...
Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives
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Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with...
Music Essays
The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel 'Izzy' Young
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Israel G. “Izzy” Young was the proprietor of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village from the...