Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General
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Vintage Country: The Essential Artists and Songs, from Old-Time to Honky-Tonk, 1920-1970
$35.00 Add to cartVintage Country is the first illustrated book to explore the rural and urban roots of country music, tracing its evolution from early recordings and radio days to its 1940s-1950s rise, before Nashvill… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0764369687
- Language: English
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You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song
$29.95 Add to cartIn You Are My Sunshine, Robert Mann weaves together the birth of country music, Louisiana political history, World War II, and the American civil rights movement to produce a compelling biography of o
- Author: Mann, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183504
- Language: English
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Songs of Nashville: The Real Stories Behind Country Music’s Greatest Hits
$30.99 Add to cart“Jake Brown puts the songwriter in the spotlight.”
Here are the untold stories behind country’s most influential songs from the tunesmiths themselves–featuring interviews with Je
—Billboard Country- Author: Brown, Jake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895150436
- Language: English
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Picnic: Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Tradition
$35.00 Read moreIn 1973, a forty-year-old country musician named Willie Nelson, inspired by a failed music festival the year before, decided he was going to hold his own party. He would stage it in the same remote a
- Series: Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University
- Author: Thomas, Dave Dalton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1648431941
- Language: English
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Willie, Waylon, and the Boys: How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever
$32.50 Add to cartThe tragic and inspiring story of the leaders of Outlaw country and their influence on today’s Alt-County and Americana superstars, tracing a path from Waylon Jennings’ survival on the Day the Music D
- Author: Fairbanks, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0306831082
- Language: English
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Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music
$29.00 Add to cartPart memoir, part oral history, Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music traces Tamara Saviano’s remarkable journey through the rise of the Americana music genre. Spanning more than three decad
- Series: Gary Hartman Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State Univer
- Author: Saviano, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1648433219
- Language: English
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Music of the Statler Brothers
$29.00 Read moreTHE MUSIC OF THE STATLER BROTHERS is an in-depth look at the musical career of The Statler Brothers’s forty-year reign as country music’s premier group. Lead singer, Don Reid, writes about each song e… [more below]
- Series: Music and the American South
- Author: Reid, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 423
- Publish Date: August 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0881467510
- Language: English
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Riders in the Sky: Romancing the West with Music and Humor
$30.00 Add to cart” . . . Bobbie and Bill Malone secure the Riders’ rightful place in country music history, recounting the story of their remarkable journey, which simultaneously entertained millions of people and rev
- Author: Malone, Bobbie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1648432859
- Language: English
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100 Years of Grand OLE Opry: A Celebration of the Artists, the Fans, and the Home of Country Music
$60.00 Add to cartThe official book celebrating 100 years of the Grand Ole Opry–an intimate, gorgeously illustrated behind-the-scenes look at the American institution and world-renowned stage for country music
Since- Author: Grand Ole Opry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1419773607
- Language: English
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My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future
$18.99 Add to cartAlice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country musi… [more below]
- Author: Randall, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1668018411
- Language: English
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Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
$17.99 Read moreA deep dive into the Man in Black’s demons, triumphs, and ultimate road back to faith by a celebrated pastor and best-selling author. A national bestseller in hardcover.
Join Greg Laurie, pastor and b- Author: Laurie, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513278
- Language: English
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Deford Bailey: A Black Star in Early Country Music
$19.95 Read moreIncludes a new foreword by musician Dom Flemons, forty-five illustrations, and a complete session discography.
A founding member of the Grand Ole Opry and the program’s first Black star, DeFord Bailey
- Series: Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press
- Author: Morton, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0915608391
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of Patsy Cline
$24.95 Read moreThe riveting and heart-wrenching story of country music diva Patsy Cline, from her against-all-odds rise from poverty and a strange, lonely childhood shrouded in secrecy, to her tragic and untimely de… [more below]
- Series: Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press
- Author: Jones, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 091560843X
- Language: English
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Dolly Parton All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track
$60.00 Add to cartDolly Parton All the Songs is an album-by-album, track-by-track deep dive into the almost 60 year career of a musical icon. This completist’s guide features more than 400 photographs, and tells the li… [more below]
- Series: All the Songs
- Author: Benoît, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0762482273
- Language: English
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Fifty Cents and a Box Top: The Creative Life of Nashville Session Musician Charlie McCoy
$24.99 Add to cartFrom Ann-Margret to Bob Dylan and George Jones to Simon & Garfunkel, Nashville harmonica virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist Charlie McCoy has contributed to some of the most successful recordings of c… [more below]
- Series: Sounding Appalachia
- Author: McCoy, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1943665710
- Language: English
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The Bakersfield Sound: How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music
$27.00 Add to cartIn California’s Central Valley, two thousand miles away from country music’s hit machine, the hard edge of the Bakersfield Sound transformed American music in the latter half of the twentieth century…. [more below]
- Author: Price, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1597144150
- Language: English
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Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
$21.99 Add to cartThis masterful explorationof American roots music–country, rockabilly, and the blues–spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Elvis … [more below]
- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0316332747
- Language: English
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Easy Banjo Songbook: With Digital Video & Audio Access
$19.95 Add to cartThe Easy Banjo Songbook for Beginners with Digital Video & Audio Access by Geoff Hohwald will teach you how to play beginner arrangements for ten classic bluegrass songs. This is a great follow-up to
- Author: Hohwald, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: February 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1940301386
- Language: English
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The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive biography of country legend Merle Haggard by the New York Times bestselling biographer of Clint Eastwood, Cary Grant, The Eagles, and more.
Merle Haggard was one of the most important co
- Author: Eliot, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0306923203
- Language: English
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The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music
$28.95 Add to cartWhile on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, journalist and novelist Paul Hemphill wrote of that pivotal moment in the late sixties when traditional defenders of the hillbilly roots of country music were … [more below]
- Author: Hemphill, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0820348570
- Language: English
