07.01.03
The
Story of Country Music
by
Colin Escott
Published:
6th March 2003
Price:
Β£16.99 hardback
Accompanies
the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TWO Series Lost Highway
Country
music is the most popular music in the world today, but for many
people it is much more than that. It is the embodiment of America:
a celebration and a soundtrack.
Tracing
country music's origins from the Anglo-Celtic immigrants who adapted
their native folk songs to the life they found in the southeastern
United States, The Story of Country Music is a fascinating account
of a music that continues to reflect people and places throughout
America's heartland. Once it chronicled the hardships and dreams
of poor, uneducated Southerners, but now country music deals with
the universal problems of modern life and love, problems often reflected
in the lives of the performers themselves. Today, the influence
of country music can be heard everywhere, nowhere more than in contemporary
rock music.
The
Story of Country Music combines rare and unpublished photographs
with exclusive interviews from country's greatest singers, musicians,
and songwriters. It encompasses the lives and music of performers
from Jimmie Rogers, Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, to Tammy Wynette,
Shania Twain and Garth Brooks, who has sold more albums than any
other performer. The Story of Country Music reveals how hillybilly
music became the authentic voice of a nation and won hearts around
the world.
Colin Escott is a Grammy award-winning music historian and a consultant/
producer for numerous record labels. His books include Hank Williams:
The Biography; Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway, and
two anthologies of journalism, Tattooed on their Tongues, and Road
Kill on the Three-Chord Highway. He lives in the USA.
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