Bill C Malone
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Since its first publication in 1968, Bill C. Malone's Country Music USA has won universal acclaim as the definitive history of American country music. Starting with the music's folk roots in the rural South, it traces country music from the early days of radio into the twenty-first century. In this fiftieth-anniversary edition, Malone, the featured historian in Ken Burns's 2019 documentary on country music, has revised every chapter to offer new information...
Author
Series
American popular music volume 8
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of how West Virginia-born Tim O'Brien first made a name for himself as the mandolin- and fiddle-playing lead singer and principal songwriter for the 1980s bluegrass band Hot Rize, then pushed beyond bluegrass by moving to the US West for a time and building a music ecosystem through recording, producing, songwriting, collaborating, and forming new bands, a recording label, and a growing audience"--