Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians

by PeterGuralnick (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $6.97

  This text is the companion volume to Sweet Soul Music and Feel Like Going Home , the author's tribute to country music and the blues and their revolutionary offspring, rockabilly, the first heady step toward rock n roll. In this middle volume of the trilogy the author has created 22 profiles of artists both celebrated and little known. From country legends like Ernest Tubb and Hank Snow to blues legends Big Joe Turner and Bobby blue Band, from latter-day outlaws Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard, to rockabillies like Charlie Feathers and Sleepy Labeef, from Sam Phillips to Howlin' Wolf and Elvis Presley the author conveys the passions that drove these men to music-making.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.44

  This stirring tribute to American roots music - country, rockabilly, and the blues - spotlights artists both celebrated and obscure, including Elvis Presley, Ernest Tubb, Bobby 'Blue' Bland, Merle Haggard and Sleepy LaBeef. Guralnick conveys the passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes desperately, on the road. The second book of a trilogy focusing on the most revolutionary eras in music history, Lost Highway brings to life the people, the songs and the performances that forever changed not only the American country music scene but America itself.