Music: Styles & Genres

This true account of the rise of country music is told by a 1940s' band musician, Don Davis, who became a music business executive and worked with ...

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:A tale of hard work, musical discovery, and faith, Charlie Danielss journey has been one of a kind. Equal parts rebel-rouser an...

In Ireland, Daniel ODonnell is more than just a singing star: he has reached the status of 'national treasure'. It has been a long journey for the ...

Willie Nelson - award-winning country-music superstar, author, poet, actor and activist - is widely recognized as an American icon. This is the fir...

Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton,...

The astonishing story of a singer-songwriter living on the streets of Nashville who met Jesus, got sober, and found international stardom at the ag...

With an iconic sound that transcends country, pop, rock, and blues, Rosanne Cashs voice and vision have captured American life for generations of f...

From cradle to great, the comprehensive real story of Bill Monroe The Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe was a major star of the Grand Ole Opry...

Tommy Thompson was a banjo player, writer, actor, teacher and thinker. He arrived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the early 1960s smitten by fol...

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The writer of such influential songs as Pancho and Lefty, To Lives to Fly, If I Needed You, and For the Sake of the Song, Townes Van Zandt exerted ...

With an influx of Appalachian migrants who came looking for work in the 1940s and 1950s, Baltimore found itself populated by some extraordinary ...

Although known primarily as a country music star, Marty Stuart has been taking photographs of the people and places surrounding him since he first ...

In his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs like Your Cheatin' Heart, Hey Good Lookin' and Jambala...

Bean Blossom, Indiana--near Brown County State Park and the artist-colony town of Nashville, Indiana--is home to the annual Bean Blossom Bluegrass ...

'Can't Be Satisfied is that rare thing in musical biographies: a book that maps out not just a single, extraordinary life but the cultural forces t...

Bobby Womack was born on 4 March 1944, and died on 27 June 2014, aged 70. In a career that spanned two centuries and seven decades, the soul singer...

The philosophy of the blues From B.B. King to Billie Holiday, Blues music not only sounds good, but has an almost universal appeal in its reflecti...

David Robertson charts W. C. Handy's rise from a rural-Alabama childhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century to his emergence as one of t...

With opinions and personal testimonies from the artists themselves, this book takes a detailed look at the huge impact that Mexican music and cu...

Dwight Hamilton Diller is a musician from West Virginia devoted to traditional Appalachian fiddle and banjo music, and a seminary-trained minist...

Country music evokes a simple, agrarian past, with images of open land and pickup trucks. While some might think of the genre as a repository of no...

Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best.  A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardsh...

First time in paperback and e-book! The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working inand stretching beyo...

Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scenes raucous heyday. Whats more, unlike most artists in this ...

'Without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced' Eric Clapton'No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues' President B...

It is no easy feat to capture the enormous spirit of Stevie Ray Vaughan a man whose presence in the world was like an untamable fire shooting fla...

This book, the result of a lifetime of listening and 30 plus years of research, focuses on the magic that is jazz, particularly the element of Tric...

Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century''s most dynamic and fiercely adve...