Roadkill on the Three-Chord Highway: Art and Trash in American Popular Music

Contents

• Introduction
• Part 1 The Smoother Side of Town
• 1. Roy Orbison: Starlight Lit My Lonesomeness
• 2. Perry Como: RIP
• 3. Patti Page: Oklahoma Blues
• Part 2 Fabor A Scam for Every Occasion
• 4. Jim Reeves: Say "Yes" to Rugs
• 5. Mitch Torok: When Mexican Joe Gave up the Rhumba
• 6. Ned Miller: From a Jack to a King
• Part 3 Town Hall Party
• 7. Skeets McDonald: You Oughta See Grandma
• 8. Wynn Stewart: Not Such a Pretty World
• 9. Wanda Jackson: Did She or Didn't She?
• 10. The Collins Kids: Brokenhearted Ricky
• Part 4 Memphis Sun Records, June 1957
• 11. Sonny Burgess: The Wild Man at 70
• 12. Ed Bruce: Mammas Don't Let Your Rock Boppin' Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys
• 13. Onie Wheeler Onie's Unlikely Bop (3188)
• Part 5 Postscript
• 14. Vernon Oxford: Too Country for Country (5761)
• Index