Classic Country: Legends of Country Music

Classic Country: Legends of Country Music

by Charles K . Wolfe (Author)

Synopsis

Now for the first time, country music authority Charles K. Wolfe gathers together his profiles of 50 legends of country music, including Bill Monroe, Lefty Frizzell, and Kitty Wells.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 348
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 20 Dec 2000

ISBN 10: 0415928273
ISBN 13: 9780415928274

Media Reviews
Wolfe takes some of the best and least-known personalities of Traditional Country and gives them life in succinct but informative vignettes...Still, whether Wolfe is retelling well-known lore or delving into the fascinating, forgotten, yet influential lives of lesser-knowns; he provides vivid. loving portraits of a country music that barely exists anymore.
-David M. Turkalo, Booklist
An essential book for popular music collections.
-ray Olson, Booklist
In lively, easy-going prose, he undertakes honest, generous, largely biographical investigations of the musicians to whom he's devoted his career... His sensitive, masterful essays elucidate the contributions these artists made to the great unifying, nourishing stream [that] runs through the history of country music.
-Publisher's Weekly
Author Bio
Charles K. Wolfe, Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, is the author of sixteen books on folk, country, and popular music, including A Good Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry (1999), The Life and Legend of Leadbelly (cowritten with Kip Lornell, 1992), and The Devil's Box: Masters of Southern Fiddling (1997). He has produced or annotated over one hundred albums of music, for which he has received three Grammy nominations.