Charles K. Wolfe Music Series – serie
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19 produkter
Howdy!
The Minnie Pearl Story
Av Mary Ellen Pethel, Don Cusic
Inbunden, 2025
364 kr
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"Take the backroads, not the highways," Minnie Pearl often said—a sentiment that captures her life's winding, unpredictable journey. Born Sarah Ophelia Colley in 1912, she grew up in Centerville, Tennessee. This small-town upbringing inspired her imagined hometown of Grinder's Switch.During the …
Couldn't Have a Wedding Without the Fiddler
The Story of Traditional Fiddling on Prince Edward Island
Av Ken Perlman
Häftad, 2015
341 kr
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Canada’s Prince Edward Island is home to one of the oldest and most vibrant fiddling traditions in North America. First established by Scottish immigrants in the late eighteenth century, it incorporated the influence of a later wave of Irish immigrants as well as the unique rhythmic sensibilities …
Story of the Dulcimer
Häftad, 2016
225 kr
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Perhaps no instrument better represents the music of Appalachia than the fretted dulcimer. The instrument was no longer confined to back porches and local music halls when Jean Ritchie so melodically thrust herself and her dulcimer into the national limelight during the folk revival of the 1950s. …
Roots Music in America
Collected Writings of Joe Wilson
Häftad, 2017
341 kr
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Joe Wilson served for twenty-eight years as executive director of the National Folk Festival and National Council for Traditional Arts. Throughout his impressive career, Wilson wrote extensively and colorfully about many facets of vernacular music in North America, including works on major folk …
Lucky Joe's Namesake
The Extraordinary Life and Observations of Joe Wilson
Häftad, 2017
341 kr
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Joe Wilson (1938-2015), a native of rural East Tennessee, was a civil rights activist, self-educated scholar, founder/administrator of nationally important roots music enterprises, and was legendary for his colorful writing and opinions. Lucky Joe’s Namesake, a companion to Roots Music in America: …
Folk Music in Overdrive
A Primer on Traditional Country and Bluegrass Artists
Av Ivan Tribe
Häftad, 2018
341 kr
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Folk Music in Overdrive is a reader of music scholar Ivan Tribe’s more significant published articles, revised and updated, from their original publication in magazines such as Bluegrass Unlimited, Precious Memories: Journal of Gospel Music, Old Time Music, and Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional …
Powerhouse for God
Speech, Chant, and Song in an Appalachian Baptist Church
Häftad, 2018
444 kr
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The Fellowship Independent Baptist Church near Stanley, Virginia, was a group of fundamental Christian believers broadly representative of southern Appalachian belief and practice. Jeff Todd Titon worked with this Baptist community for more than ten years in his attempt to determine the nature of …
Waylon
A Biography
Häftad, 2020
351 kr
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From his earliest recordings to his posthumously released albums, the haunting baritone of Waylon Jennings marked him as an extraordinarily individualistic country music artist. This biography by the late R. Serge Denisoff, first published in 1983, recounts Waylon’s west Texas upbringing, his …
Searching for Woody Guthrie
A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics
Av Ron Briley
Häftad, 2020
341 kr
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Born in the summer of 1912, Woody Guthrie remains one of the most significant figures in American folk music to this day. While most Americans know his iconic anthem “This Land Is Your Land”, surprisingly few understand Guthrie’s place in the greater context of American radicalism and protest in …
Randy Wood
The Lore of the Luthier
Av Daniel Wile
Häftad, 2020
351 kr
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In the 1960s and 1970s, Randy Wood was a forerunner in the vintage instrument industry. Known as the instrument repairman to the stars, the list of Wood’s clients reads like a Hall of Fame roster: Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton, Johnny Cash, Chet Atkins, Emmylou Harris, Billy Gibbons, Bill Monroe, …
Bodhrán
Experimentation, Innovation, and the Traditional Irish Frame Drum
Häftad, 2020
210 kr
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In the past fifty years, the bodhrÁn, or traditional Irish circular frame drum, has undergone a rapid evolution in development. Traditionally, it is a shallow drum ranging from ten to twenty-six inches in diameter, covered in goatskin on the top (or drum) side and open on the other. Unlike any …
Making Music in Music City
Conversations with Nashville Music Industry Professionals
Av John Markert
Inbunden, 2021
355 kr
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At least since the rise of the “Nashville sound” in the 1950s, Tennessee’s capital city has attracted numerous books and articles offering insight into the celebrity machine known as Music City. But behind the artist in the limelight are a host of support personnel and contributors who shape the …
King of the Delta Blues
The Life and Music of Charlie Patton
Av Edward Komara, Gayle Dean Wardlow
Häftad, 2022
351 kr
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Born 130 years ago in the heart of Mississippi, Charlie Patton (c. 1891–1934) is considered by many to be a father of the Delta blues. With his bullish baritone voice and his fluid slide guitar touch, Patton established songs like “Pony Blues,” “A Spoonful Blues,” and “High Water Everywhere” in the …
Tex Morton
From Australian Yodeler to International Showman
Häftad, 2023
341 kr
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Born in 1916 at the northern end of New Zealand’s South Island, the teenaged Robert William Lane became obsessed with the singing and expressive yodeling of country music’s Jimmie Rodgers. By the 1940s, his obsession and subsequent focus on his own guitar playing, singing, and yodeling led him to …
Cool Wooden Box
Transformation of the American Acoustic Guitar
Av Rand Smith
Häftad, 2023
341 kr
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Beginning with a comparison of the American acoustic guitar world in the early 1960s with that of today, then describing iconic performances at storied venues such as The Ark in Ann Arbor while meticulously researching the instrument’s top makers, Smith assembles a passion-filled and eye-opening …
Adirondack Traditional Music
The Marjorie Lansing Porter Collection of Folk Songs and Ballads
Av Lee Knight
Inbunden, 2027
600 kr
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Driving a black Studebaker with a distinctive red interior, former journalist Marjorie Lansing Porter crisscrossed the Adirondack Mountains and the Champlain Valley, visiting small hamlets, farmhouses, and Grange halls to record the songs and stories of those who lived and worked in the mountains. …
Legacy of Ron Gonnella
Scottish Fiddler, 1930–1994
Häftad, 2025
232 kr
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In the latter half of the twentieth century, Ron Gonnella’s extensive discography played a pivotal role in reviving interest in traditional Scottish fiddling, particularly in the United States. Jane MacMorran’s The Legacy of Ron Gonnella offers an in-depth exploration of this legendary fiddler …
Country Music Comes to Australia
An American Art Form and Its Evolution in the Land Down Under
Häftad, 2026
375 kr
Kommande
In Country Music Comes to Australia, Andrew K. Smith charts the development of Australian country music from its genesis in the mid-1800s through the early 1950s. Documenting the origins and development of the genre and its various influences, including Australian indigenous music traditions, …
Howdy!
The Minnie Pearl Story
Av Mary Ellen Pethel, Don Cusic
Häftad, 2027
290 kr
Kommande
"Minnie Pearl became my friend in 1964. I was 18, new in town, and Minnie Pearl took me under her wing. She gave me good advice, the how to's, the how not to's, the when to's, and the when not to's. I learned a lot from her as a woman and as a professional entertainer but above all that, as a good, …
