Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
This masterful exploration of American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. In incisive portraits based on searching interviews...
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This masterful exploration of American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. In incisive portraits based on searching interviews with these legendary performers, Peter Guralnick captures the boundless passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes almost desperately, on the road.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316332736 (0316332739)
ASIN: 316332739
Publish date: July 1st 1999
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Reference,
Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
African American,
Culture,
Music,
Pop Culture,
Music Biography
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