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American Roots Music
Edited by Robert Santelli, Holly
George-Warren,and Jim Brown
Foreword by Bonnie Raitt 200 illustrations, 100 in full color, 240 pages, 9 3/4x 12" ISBN 0-8109-1432-8 US$49.50 / OUR PRICE: $20.00 |
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The companion volume to the
four-part prime-time PBS series, American Roots Music digs down deep,
past today's pop and rock, to uncover the blues, gospel, folk, country &
western, and other traditional genres at the heart of the nation's musical
heritage. Telling the compelling tales of the pioneers, entrepreneurs, and
artists who brought it to the world stage, it profiles the Singing Brakeman
Jimmie Rodgers, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson, pardoned convict Lead Belly,
Dust Bowl poet laureate Woody Guthrie, electric blues pioneer Muddy Waters,
honky-tonker Hank Williams, protester Pete Seeger, and blues-guitar legend
B. B. King, among hundreds of colorful personalities.
Including incisive essays, informative sidebars, and first-person narratives
from key artists, this book presents both personal and historical
perspectives. Portraits, performance shots, and ephemera such as sheet music
and record sleeves illustrate the authoritative text.
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