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THE ROCK BIBLE: UNHOLY SCRIPTURE FOR FANS & BANDS > By Henry Owings(0)
January 1, 2009
This is real I-wish-I’d-written-that, honest-to-god gospel.
SMART BLONDE: DOLLY PARTON > By Stephen Miller
Miller never quite gets inside his subject, but it’s as close a look at Parton as you’ll probably get.
PURE COUNTRY: THE LEON KAGARISE ARCHIVES, 1961-1971 > by Eddie Dean
This coffee-table book illuminates a time when country artists played anywhere…
IT STILL MOVES: LOST SONGS, LOST HIGHWAYS & THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT AMERICAN MUSIC > by Amanda Petrusich
This book, as its subtitle suggests, is constructed as a sort of report back from the road from musical locales-Nashville, Memphis, the Mississippi Delta-and from research into moments in roots music history-the making of the Harry Smith Anthology, the Lomaxes’ explorations, the founding of No Depression magazine-taken to be key to understanding the direction of [...]
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