Americana music : voices, visionaries, & pioneers of an honest sound /
With roots in Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, New Orleans, the Piedmont, Memphis, and the prairies of Texas and the American West, the musical genre called Americana can prove difficult to define. Nevertheless, this burgeoning trend in American popular music continues to expand and develop, winni...
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | John and Robin Dickson series in Texas music.
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Table of Contents:
- Back to the beginning
- Routes and roots
- The instrumental essentials
- Mississippi and the birth of the Blues
- Bluegrass breaks out
- Talking with a legend: Dr. Ralph Stanley
- The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band completes the circle
- Byrds, Burritos, and changing times
- David Crosby: a Byrd's timeless flight
- Chris Hillman: the Byrds and beyond
- Richie Furay remembers: seminal member of Buffalo Springfield, Poco, and Souther-Hillman-and Furay shares his story
- Poco primes country rock
- Timothy B. Schmit: from Poco to the Eagles, still flying high
- The Eagles' one time wingman Don Felder shares his story
- Graham Nash: past but present
- Dwight Yoakam goes back to Bakersfield
- Holly Williams: heir to a legend
- Sam Bush: from bluegrass to nu-grass, and stopping in Nashville in between.
- Kinky Friedman: an irascible icon speaks out
- Guy Clark's melancholy musings
- Billy Joe Shaver: a rebel with a cause
- Ray Wylie Hubbard's past perfect
- David Bromberg: sideman as superstar
- Delbert McClinton peruses the past, while contemplating the present
- The transition is complete: Americana today
- John Oates takes a rural route off the mainstream mile
- Steve Forbert and the art of compromise
- A lot to Lovett
- No baggage for Bela
- Jay Farrar talks about a prodigal Son Volt
- Chris Isaak aims for arcane Americana
- Shawn Colvin: Covers Girl
- The Mavericks: renegade rockers
- The Steep Canyon Rangers: bluegrass boosters on a steady ascent
- The Punch Brothers get punchy
- Yonder Mountain String Band: a testament to Telluride
- Greensky Bluegrass: breaking down barriers
- The Avett Brothers redefine the template
- Amanda Shires emerges on her own
- Donna the Buffalo and the populist stampede
- A Rose by any other name.
- Derek Trucks talks multitasking, working with his wife, and lessons learned from the past
- Dave Rawlings: man as machine
- The Dawes pause: looking forward with a nod to the past
- Ruthie keeps it real
- Mekons blur the line between past and present
- Band of Heathens as a band of brothers
- Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band go back to the roots
- Americana abroad
- Julian Dawson: despite English origins, he's found his Nashville niche
- The Dreaming Spires share their search for the "Supertruth"
- The Sadies look south
- The Falls: love, life, and life on the road
- Ireland's Arborist details his circumspect
- Jenn Grant channels her mother's inspiration and her own determination
- The Henrys' unlikely exposition
- Appendix. Essential albums that trace the transition.
