The Bluegrass Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bluegrass Reader write by Thomas Goldsmith. This book was released on 2004. The Bluegrass Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A chronological guide to bluegrass music that describes and traces the development of the musical genre.
Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown write by Thomas Goldsmith. This book was released on 2019-09-30. Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recorded in 1949, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" changed the face of American music. Earl Scruggs's instrumental essentially transformed the folk culture that came before it while helping to energize bluegrass's entry into the mainstream in the 1960s. The song has become a gateway to bluegrass for musicians and fans alike as well as a happily inescapable track in film and television. Thomas Goldsmith explores the origins and influence of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" against the backdrop of Scruggs's legendary career. Interviews with Scruggs, his wife Louise, disciple Bela Fleck, and sidemen like Curly Seckler, Mac Wiseman, and Jerry Douglas shed light on topics like Scruggs's musical evolution and his working relationship with Bill Monroe. As Goldsmith shows, the captivating sound of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" helped bring back the banjo from obscurity and distinguished the low-key Scruggs as a principal figure in American acoustic music.Passionate and long overdue, Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown takes readers on an ear-opening journey into two minutes and forty-three seconds of heaven.
The Bill Monroe Reader
The Bill Monroe Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bill Monroe Reader write by Tom Ewing. This book was released on 2000. The Bill Monroe Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lively, heartfelt, and informative, 'The Bill Monroe Reader' is a fitting tribute to the man and the musician who transformed the traditional music of western Kentucky into an international sensation.
Can't You Hear Me Calling
Can't You Hear Me Calling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Can't You Hear Me Calling write by Richard Smith. This book was released on 2009-04-27. Can't You Hear Me Calling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considering the range of stars that have claimed Bill Monroe as an influence—Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Jerry Garcia are just a few—it can be said that no single artist has had as broad an impact on American popular music as he did. For sixty years, Monroe was a star at the Grand Ole Opry, and when he died in 1996, he was universally hailed as "the Father of Bluegrass." But the personal life of this taciturn figure remained largely unknown. Delving into everything from Monroe's professional successes to his bitter rivalries, from his isolated childhood to his reckless womanizing, veteran bluegrass journalist Richard D. Smith has created a three-dimensional portrait of this brilliant, complex, and contradictory man. Featuring over 120 interviews, this scrupulously researched work—a Chicago Tribune Choice Selection, New York Times Notable Book, and Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2000—stands as the authoritative biography of a true giant of American music.
Pretty Good for a Girl
Pretty Good for a Girl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pretty Good for a Girl write by Murphy Hicks Henry. This book was released on 2013-05-01. Pretty Good for a Girl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book devoted entirely to women in bluegrass, Pretty Good for a Girl documents the lives of more than seventy women whose vibrant contributions to the development of bluegrass have been, for the most part, overlooked. Accessibly written and organized by decade, the book begins with Sally Ann Forrester, who played accordion and sang with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys from 1943 to 1946, and continues into the present with artists such as Alison Krauss, Rhonda Vincent, and the Dixie Chicks. Drawing from extensive interviews, well-known banjoist Murphy Hicks Henry gives voice to women performers and innovators throughout bluegrass's history, including such pioneers as Bessie Lee Mauldin, Wilma Lee Cooper, and Roni and Donna Stoneman; family bands including the Lewises, Whites, and McLains; and later pathbreaking performers such as the Buffalo Gals and other all-girl bands, Laurie Lewis, Lynn Morris, Missy Raines, and many others.
