The Country Music Reader

Contents

• THE COUNTRY MUSIC READER
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Note on Sources
• 1. Lindon K. Starr, Georgia's Unwritten Airs Played by Old 'Fiddler's' for Atlanta Prizes: Untutored Players from Hillsides and Marshes Perform Traditional Southern Melodies on Wire-Stringed Violins-Society Folk and Workers in Audiences 'Shuffle Feet' to
• 2. Cecil B. Sharp, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1917)
• 3. John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (1910) (excerpt)
• 4.What the Popularity of Hill-Billy Songs Means in Retail Profit Sensibilities: The Widespread Vogue of the Funereal Type of Songs Is Attested by Publishers and Record Manufacturers-Is It of Significance as Indication of Public Taste? (1925)
• 5.Mountain Songs Recorded Here by Victor Co.: Notable Performers of This Section at Work at Station in This City (1927)
• 6. Ralph Peer, Discovery of the 1st Hillbilly Great (1953)
• 7. Bill Williams, excerpt Interview with Mother Maybelle Carter (1968/1971)
• 8. Harold A. Safford, Bradley Kincaid (1928)
• 9. Paul Hobson, Radio's Hillbilly King, Carson Robison, who is, with his Pioneers, a regular attraction for Oxydol every Sunday from Luxembourg, Lyons and Normandy, tells us in this interview how he writes his world-famous songs (1938)
• 10. John Wright, J.E. Mainer (1993)
• 11. Virginia Seeds, Back Stage Ramble: Cowboys and Cow Belles Enjoy the Barn Dance (1936)
• 12. No Hill Billies in Radio: Ballads Are Still Written, Says John Lair (1935)
• 13. Alva Johnston, Tenor on Horseback (1939)
• 14. George D. Hay, excerpt from A Story of the Grand Old Opry (1945)
• 15. Janis Stout, The Light Crust Doughboys Were on the Air: A Memoir (1996)
• 16.Okies Reverse Order of Steinbeck's Tale (1941)
• 17. Maurice Zolotow, Hillbilly Boom (1944)
• 18. Nicholas Dawidoff, Earl Scruggs: Three Fast Fingers (excerpt) (1997)
• 19. Rufus Jarman, Country Music Goes to Town (1953)
• 20. Johnny Cash on recording at Sun with Sam Phillips, Cash: The Autobiography (excerpt) (1997)
• 21. Charlie Louvin, Elvis (2012)
• 22. Murray Nash, Miss Country Music and Her Family (1955)
• 23. Linda Lamendola, Steve Sholes-Star Maker (1956)
• 24. Ben A. Green, Chet Makes Guitar Talk with Rhythm and Melody (1957)
• 25. Coast Country Biz Booms (1957)
• 26. Alan Lomax, Bluegrass Background: Folk Music with Overdrive (1959)
• 27. Tom T. Hall, The Storyteller's Nashville on songwriting and song plugging (1979)
• 28. The Story of the Country Music Association (1968)
• 29. Ask Trina (1968)
• 30. John Grissim, Jr., California White Man's Shit Kickin' Blues (1969)
• 31. Lee Arnold, A DJ Tells Why-There's Country Music in the City Air (1975)
• 32. Michael Bane, The Outlaws: Revolution in Country Music (1978)
• 33. Rex Rutkoski,The Pill: Should It Be Banned from Airplay? (1975)
• 34. George F. Will, Of Pride and Country Music (1975)
• 35. Aaron Latham, The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy: America's Search for True Grit (1978)
• 36. Tom Anthony, Kenny Rogers: Drawing Full Houses (1981)
• 37. Alanna Nash, Emmylou Harris (1988)
• 38. Holly G. Miller, Randy Travis: Nice Guy Finishes First (1988)
• 39. Bruce Feiler, Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes, and the Changing Face of Nashville (1998)
• 40. Debbie Holley, Country Dancing Sparks Club Growth: New Nightclubs, Remixes Target Trend (1992)
• 41. Eric Boehlert, Classic Country Stations Fill Niche: Claim Fans of Currents, Standards Mix (1993)
• 42. Peter Cronin, Nashville's Studio Boom Alters Musical Landscape (1993)
• 43. Kyle Ryan, Any Kind of Music But Country: A Decade of Indie Country, Punk Rock, and the Struggle for Country's Soul (2005)
• 44. Rich Kienzle, Review of BR5-49 (1996)
• 45. Deborah Evans Price, Has There Been 'Murder on Music Row'? Key Players Speak Out and Is There 'Murder on Music Row'? Debate Continues (2000)
• 46. Scott Galupo, The Critical Rockist and Gretchen (2005)
• 47. Craig Havighurst, Scenes from a Rose Garden: Martina McBride Found Career and Family Bliss by Carefully Balancing the Timeless and the Timely (2006)
• 48. Jill Sobule, Searching for the Republican Artist (2008)
• 49. Vanessa Grigoriadis, The Very Pink, Very Perfect Life of Taylor Swift (2009)
• 50. Chet Flippo, Why the Term 'Country Music' May Disappear: Marketers of the Future May Dissolve Music Genre Labels (2010)
• 51. Skip Hollandsworth, The Girl Who Played with Firearms (2011)
• INDEX
• SONG INDEX