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Country Guitar for Beginners - A Complete Method to Learn Traditional and Modern Country Guitar Playing (Paperback): Levi Clay Country Guitar for Beginners - A Complete Method to Learn Traditional and Modern Country Guitar Playing (Paperback)
Levi Clay
R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Missouri Folklore Society Journal - Special Issue: Songs and Ballads (Paperback): Lyn Wolz, Elizabeth Frieze, Jim Vandregriff Missouri Folklore Society Journal - Special Issue: Songs and Ballads (Paperback)
Lyn Wolz, Elizabeth Frieze, Jim Vandregriff
R647 R534 Discovery Miles 5 340 Save R113 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Whisperin' Bill Anderson - An Unprecedented Life in Country Music (Hardcover): Bill Anderson Whisperin' Bill Anderson - An Unprecedented Life in Country Music (Hardcover)
Bill Anderson; As told to Peter Cooper
R947 R781 Discovery Miles 7 810 Save R166 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bill Anderson is one of the most successful songwriters, performers, and personalities in country music history. Known as "Whisperin' Bill" to generations of fans, Anderson's soft vocalisations and spoken lyrics are the hallmarks of his style. A long-standing member of the weekly Grand Ole Opry radio program and stage performance in Nashville, he also discovered future Country Music Hall of Famer Connie Smith and wrote her first hits, toured with Johnny Cash, hosted his own television show, sang eighty charting singles and thirty-seven Top Ten country music hits, and wrote songs recorded by James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Louvin Brothers, Dean Martin, Aretha Franklin, and many more. Anderson's current and reinvigorated career is covered in this revision and expansion of his 1989 autobiography. Over the past twenty years, he has won two Country Music Association Song of the Year prizes, been nominated for GRAMMY awards, won the Academy of Country Music's Song of the Year distinction, and had works recorded by superstars Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, Alison Krauss, George Strait, Vince Gill, Elvis Costello, and many more. In 2001, he entered the Country Music Hall of Fame. Whisperin' Bill: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music presents a portrait of a long-gone Nashville and introduces readers to the famous and fascinating characters who helped build what is now known as country music. Richly illustrated with black-and-white photos of Anderson interacting with the superstars of American roots music, including such legends as Patsy Cline, Vince Gill, and Steve Wariner, this autobiography highlights Anderson's trajectory in the business and his influence on the past, present, and future of this dynamic genre.

Knoxville's 'merry-Go-Round, ' Ciderville And... - The East Tennessee Country Music Scene (Paperback): Ruth White Knoxville's 'merry-Go-Round, ' Ciderville And... - The East Tennessee Country Music Scene (Paperback)
Ruth White
R542 Discovery Miles 5 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Eddy Arnold - His Life and Times (Paperback): Don Cusic Eddy Arnold - His Life and Times (Paperback)
Don Cusic
R574 R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Save R85 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Beatles and Country Music (Hardcover): Don Cusic The Beatles and Country Music (Hardcover)
Don Cusic
R750 R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Save R124 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Beatles and Country Music (Paperback): Don Cusic The Beatles and Country Music (Paperback)
Don Cusic
R437 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R62 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hank Williams - The Singer and the Songs (Hardcover): Don Cusic Hank Williams - The Singer and the Songs (Hardcover)
Don Cusic
R1,007 R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Save R185 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dang Me (Paperback): M.L. Lindberg Dang Me (Paperback)
M.L. Lindberg
R194 Discovery Miles 1 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bluegrass Guitar Essentials (Paperback): Scott Nygaard Bluegrass Guitar Essentials (Paperback)
Scott Nygaard; Edited by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
R713 R642 Discovery Miles 6 420 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

(String Letter Publishing). Learn the fundamentals of bluegrass by exploring its various styles and the masters who defined the genre: Doc Watson, Clarence White, and Norman Blake. The book includes background information, instruction and 12 classic songs, including: Greenback Dollar * Kingdom Come * Lonesome Old River * Midnight on the Stormy Deep * Up the Creek * Whiskey Before Breakfast * and more. The CD includes demos of the exercises and songs.

Outlaw Country - (1950s - Present) (Paperback): Willie P Clayton Outlaw Country - (1950s - Present) (Paperback)
Willie P Clayton
R889 Discovery Miles 8 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe (Paperback): Tara Murtha Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe (Paperback)
Tara Murtha
R300 R249 Discovery Miles 2 490 Save R51 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In August 1967, "Ode to Billie Joe," a B-side throwaway performed by a total unknown, knocked the Beatles' "All You Need is Love" out of the Billboard chart's top slot. Listeners obsessed over the mysteries ensnarled in the song's haunting refrain: Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Why did Billie Joe kill himself? Is he the narrator's secret lover? Fans also wanted to know: Who is this glamorous young woman who could boil air with just a parlor guitar and voice low as the Mississippi moon? That is a mystery as deep as the Tallahatchie's rushing water. Less than 10 years after bursting onto the world's stage with an album that scored an unprecedented trifecta on the Pop, Country and Black charts, the woman born Roberta Lee Streeter vanished from the spotlight. This much we know: Gentry was an artistic polymath and astute businesswoman. After "Ode," she wrote more music, DJed a radio program, hosted a TV show and started her own publishing company. Disenchanted with the record business, she produced spectacular Las Vegas shows, writing the music, choreographing the routines and designing the costumes. But despite working herself to exhaustion, Gentry was unable to replicate the commercial sales of her debut, and she disappeared. Bobbie Gentry has not been seen in public for over 30 years. With unprecedented access to a treasure trove of Gentry's memorabilia, Murtha excavates the mysteries of "Ode to Billie Joe," in terms of both the record's production and the effect of its success on Gentry. With input from the artist's collaborators and contemporaries, Murtha argues that though Gentry has every right to vanish, her role as a pioneering woman in the music industry should not.

Soul, Country, and the USA - Race and Identity in American Music Culture (Hardcover): S. Shonekan Soul, Country, and the USA - Race and Identity in American Music Culture (Hardcover)
S. Shonekan
R2,192 Discovery Miles 21 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Soul music and country music propel American popular culture. Using ethnomusicological tools, Shonekan examines their socio-cultural influences and consequences: the perception of and resistance to hegemonic structures from within their respective constituencies, the definition of national identity, and the understanding of the 'American Dream.'

Linthead Stomp - The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South (Paperback, Large type / large print edition): Patrick... Linthead Stomp - The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South (Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Patrick Huber
R1,473 Discovery Miles 14 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows. Rather, much of this music recorded before World War II emerged from the bustling cities and towns of the Piedmont South. No group contributed more to the commercialization of early country music than southern factory workers. In Linthead Stomp, Patrick Huber explores the origins and development of this music in the Piedmont's mill villages. Huber offers vivid portraits of a colorful cast of Piedmont millhand musicians, including Fiddlin' John Carson, Charlie Poole, Dave McCarn, and the Dixon Brothers, and considers the impact that urban living, industrial work, and mass culture had on their lives and music. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including rare 78-rpm recordings and unpublished interviews, Huber reveals how the country music recorded between 1922 and 1942 was just as modern as the jazz music of the same era. Linthead Stomp celebrates the Piedmont millhand fiddlers, guitarists, and banjo pickers who combined the collective memories of the rural countryside with the upheavals of urban-industrial life to create a distinctive American music that spoke to the changing realities of the twentieth-century South.

Wayfaring Stranger - A Musical Journey in the American South (Hardcover): Emma John Wayfaring Stranger - A Musical Journey in the American South (Hardcover)
Emma John 1
R712 R592 Discovery Miles 5 920 Save R120 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Can you feel nostalgic for a life you've never known? Suffused with her much-loved warmth and wit, Emma John's memoir follows her moving and memorable journey to master one of the hardest musical styles on earth - and to find her place in an alien world. Emma had fallen out of love with her violin when a chance trip to the American South introduced her to bluegrass music. Classically trained, highly strung and wedded to London life, Emma was about as country as a gin martini. So why did it feel like a homecoming? Answering that question takes Emma deep into the Appalachian mountains, where she uncovers a hidden culture that confounds every expectation - and learns some emotional truths of her own.

Music from the True Vine - Mike Seeger's Life and Musical Journey (Paperback, New Ed): Bill C. Malone Music from the True Vine - Mike Seeger's Life and Musical Journey (Paperback, New Ed)
Bill C. Malone
R950 Discovery Miles 9 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A musician, documentarian, scholar, and one of the founding members of the influential folk revival group the New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger (1933-2009) spent more than fifty years collecting, performing, and commemorating the culture and folk music of white and black southerners, which he called ""music from the true vine."" In this fascinating biography, Bill Malone explores the life and musical contributions of folk artist Seeger, son of musicologists Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger and brother of folksingers Pete and Peggy Seeger. Malone argues that Seeger, while not as well known as his brother, may be more important to the history of American music through his work in identifying and giving voice to the people from whom the folk revival borrowed its songs. Seeger recorded and produced over forty albums, including the work of artists such as Libba Cotten, Tommy Jarrell, Dock Boggs, and Maybelle Carter. In 1958, with an ambition to recreate the southern string bands of the twenties, he formed the New Lost City Ramblers, helping to inspire the urban folk revival of the sixties. Music from the True Vine presents Seeger as a gatekeeper of American roots music and culture, showing why generations of musicians and fans of traditional music regard him as a mentor and an inspiration.

Linthead Stomp - The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South (Paperback): Patrick Huber Linthead Stomp - The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South (Paperback)
Patrick Huber
R1,195 Discovery Miles 11 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows. Rather, much of this music recorded before World War II emerged from the bustling cities and towns of the Piedmont South. No group contributed more to the commercialization of early country music than southern factory workers. In Linthead Stomp, Patrick Huber explores the origins and development of this music in the Piedmont's mill villages. Huber offers vivid portraits of a colorful cast of Piedmont millhand musicians, including Fiddlin' John Carson, Charlie Poole, Dave McCarn, and the Dixon Brothers, and considers the impact that urban living, industrial work, and mass culture had on their lives and music. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including rare 78-rpm recordings and unpublished interviews, Huber reveals how the country music recorded between 1922 and 1942 was just as modern as the jazz music of the same era. Linthead Stomp celebrates the Piedmont millhand fiddlers, guitarists, and banjo pickers who combined the collective memories of the rural countryside with the upheavals of urban-industrial life to create a distinctive American music that spoke to the changing realities of the twentieth-century South.

Barn Dances & Jamborees Across Kentucky (Hardcover): J. D. Wilkes Barn Dances & Jamborees Across Kentucky (Hardcover)
J. D. Wilkes; Foreword by John Cohen
R865 R706 Discovery Miles 7 060 Save R159 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the... He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest Country Record of All Time (Paperback)
Jack Isenhour
R635 R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Save R114 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When George Jones recorded "He Stopped Loving Her Today" more than thirty years ago, he was a walking disaster. Twin addictions to drugs and alcohol had him drinking Jim Beam by the case and snorting cocaine as long as he was awake. Before it was over, Jones would be bankrupt, homeless, and an unwilling patient at an Alabama mental institution. In the midst of all this chaos, uber producer Billy Sherrill--the man who discovered Tammy Wynette and co-wrote "Stand by Your Man"--would somehow coax the performance of a lifetime out of the mercurial Jones. The result was a country masterpiece.

In "He Stopped Loving Her Today," the story behind the making of the song often voted the best country song ever by both critics and fans, offers an overview of country music's origins and a search for the music's illusive Holy Grail: authenticity. The schizoid bottom line--even though country music is undeniably a branch of the make-believe world of show biz, to fans and scholars alike, authenticity remains the ultimate measure of the music's power."

Chicken Pickin' - The Vocabulary of the Country Guitar Masters (Paperback): Sam Smiley Chicken Pickin' - The Vocabulary of the Country Guitar Masters (Paperback)
Sam Smiley
R499 Discovery Miles 4 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Winding Stream - An Oral History of the Carter and Cash Family (Paperback): Beth Harrington The Winding Stream - An Oral History of the Carter and Cash Family (Paperback)
Beth Harrington
R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There is a stream that courses through American roots music. Its source is in the Appalachian foothills in a place called Maces Springs, Virginia. It was there that A.P. Carter, his wife Sara, and his sister-in-law Maybelle began their careers as three of the earliest stars of country music. These three didn't just play the music emerging from their hill country upbringing. They helped invent it. The stream these three created turned into a rushing river and moved through several generations of musicians, most notably touching the life of one Johnny Cash who first heard the Carters - including a young June Carter - over the airwaves. It was a wonderful twist of fate when Cash, as a Sun Records artist, first met Mother Maybelle and her girls. the Carter Sisters. and vowed to June that "I'm gonna marry you someday." The Winding Stream is an oral history that tells the tale of this important music dynasty. In their own words, family and friends, musicians and historians offer first-hand recollections and insightful observations that illuminate the Carter and Cash contributions to American popular culture.

The Scotch-Irish Influence on Country Music in the Carolinas - Border Ballads, Fiddle Tunes & Sacred Songs (Hardcover): Michael... The Scotch-Irish Influence on Country Music in the Carolinas - Border Ballads, Fiddle Tunes & Sacred Songs (Hardcover)
Michael C Scoggins; Foreword by Sarah Peasall McGuffey
R821 R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Save R146 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Texas Style Fiddle Tunes For Mandolin (Paperback): Pete Martin Texas Style Fiddle Tunes For Mandolin (Paperback)
Pete Martin
R832 Discovery Miles 8 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A collection of common Texas style fiddle tunes, arranged for the mandolin.

Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee (Paperback): Rachel Lee Rubin Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee (Paperback)
Rachel Lee Rubin
R299 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R51 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Every now and then, a song inspires a cultural conversation that ends up looking like a brawl. Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee, released in 1969, is a prime example of that important role of popular music. Okie immediately helped to frame an ongoing discussion about region and class, pride and politics, culture and counterculture. But the conversation around the song, useful as it was, drowned out the song itself, not to mention the other songs on the live album-named for Okie and performed in Muskogee-that Haggard has carefully chosen to frame what has turned out to be his most famous song. What are the internal clues for gleaning the intended meaning of Okie? What is the pay-off of the anti-fandom that Okie sparked (and continues to spark) in some quarters? How has the song come to be a shorthand for expressing all manner of anti-working class attitudes? What was Haggard's artistic path to that stage in Oklahoma, and how did he come to shape the industry so profoundly at the moment when urban country singers were playing a major role on the American social and political landscape?

Dance All Night - Those Other Southwestern Swing Bands, Past and Present (Paperback): Jean A. Boyd Dance All Night - Those Other Southwestern Swing Bands, Past and Present (Paperback)
Jean A. Boyd
R1,291 Discovery Miles 12 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Its strains may be haunting, but western swing is alive and on the upswing, enjoying a renaissance among musicians too young to recall or even comprehend its heyday. For them, the term may evoke the nationally known country music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys and the Spade Cooley Band. Yet on the local level, western swing bands dominated the airways and dance halls in every town and rural setting throughout the Southwest in the 1930s and by the 1940s had spread their influence and music to California. Jean A. Boyd presents the history and music of those bands that did not garner national fame, but were local sensations to thousands of southwesterners hungry for diversion and good dancing during the depression and World War II. Devoted fans who travel the festival circuit will surely appreciate the histories and recollections Boyd has carefully compiled, while musicologists will welcome her musical analysis and her transcriptions of recorded performances. Performers, as well, may learn new licks and tricks from the ubiquitous swing jazz artists of a time not yet forgotten, preserved here for another generation's enjoyment and edification.

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