This gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining history begins where
country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to
themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they
danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in
the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the
wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation--a diverse range
of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to
rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive
commercial success today.
But above all, Country Music is
the story of the musicians. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk
life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood, and
Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women
everywhere. Here too are interviews with the genre's biggest stars,
including the likes of Merle Haggard to Garth Brooks to Rosanne Cash.
Rife with rare photographs and endlessly fascinating anecdotes, the
stories in this sweeping yet intimate history will captivate longtime
country fans and introduce new listeners to an extraordinary body of
music that lies at the very center of the American experience.
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