Now in its second edition, the All Music Guide to Country rounds up the music you love, from the Appalachian Mountains to the Grand Ole Opry, from gospel tents to honky-tonk bars, and from the open range to the open road, giving this diverse genre its due respect and helping you choose the most essential albums from more than 1,200 artists. Country legends like Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn and Hank Williams are covered in depth, along with such popular artists as the Dixie Chicks, Wynonna Judd, Garth Brooks and Faith Hill. You'll also find 10,281 reviews and ratings for a wide range of country-influenced performers, including Will Oldham, Lyle Lovett, k.d. lang and country rockers ranging from Gram Parsons to Uncle Tupelo. Whether you prefer old-time or contemporary country, acoustic banjo or electric guitar, everything you need to make the most of your music-buying dollar is here!
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With country music and its manifestations reaching ever deeper into the world's cultural psyche, All Music offers this in-depth encyclopedic guide to the massive genre. The book covers the extended bluegrass scene given greater popularity by O Brother Where Art Thou? with entries from the close harmony traditionalists Osborne Brothers to such progressives as Darrell Scott. Doc Watson gets four pages and the FM country scene from Dwight Yoakam to popular Western swing revivalists Asleep at the Wheel is here. The alt-country scene is present, too, covered from Bloodshot recording artist Robbie Fulks to the popular Old 97's. The entries are in the expected form for these successful All Music cyclopedias. That is, biographies and then key reviews with recommended starting points. This makes for over 10,000 rated reviews. The well-indexed tome includes style descriptions, a section for compilations, soundtracks, essential albums by genre and two dozen rich essays on aspects of country music, like "Country on Film" and "Country Soundtracks". This is an invaluable resource for the serious fan of any part of the varied country music spectrum. Where else would you find that The Residents, Savoy Brown and Elvis Costello all drew on the early `70s countrified British pub rock group Chilli Willi & the Red Hot Peppers for members?
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Reviews and ratings to 10,281 recordings by 1,219 artists,
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The collaborative effort of country music experts Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine, and now in an expanded and updated second edition, All Music Guide To Country: The Definitive Guide To Country Music is a gigantic, 963-page reference book which is crammed from cover to cover with reviews and ratings to 10,281 recordings by 1,219 artists and represent all facets and subgenres of the western music genre and is a compendium of facts and factoids about country music and the people who sing it. A thorough, "must-have" resource for dedicated country fans or anyone else who needs to look up country-music related information quickly, the text published in a rather tiny font -- so readers with impaired eyesight had best invest in a good magnifying glass.
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Nathan Abshire helped bring the blues and honky tonk to Cajun music and repopularized the accordion with his recordings during the 1950s and '60s, but still never managed to make a living from his music Born in Gueydan, L.A. on June 23, 1913, Abshire began playing professionally in the 1920s, and he first recorded in the early '30s with Happy Fats & His Rayne-Bo Ramblers Abshire went to work at the Basile, L.A. town dump around that time, and he held the job for most of his working life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
roots rock album, bluegrass collection, major country hits, popular female country singers, hardcore honky, new traditionalist country, progressive bluegrass musicians, updated honky, first duet album, honky took blues, hardcore country, excellent title track, releasing several albums, three minor hits, barroom weepers, new traditionalist movement, countrypolitan sound, minor chart entries, rootsy country, leadoff track, pedal steel work, progressive country movement, swinging honky, new country singers, charting hits Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bear Family, Thomas Erlewine, Hank Williams, Warner Bros, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Thom Owens, Willie Nelson, Sugar Hill, Thomas Erlewme, Greg Adams, Bill Monroe, Elvis Presley, Grand Ole Opry, William Ruhlmann, Bob Wills, Chet Atkins, Los Angeles, Buck Owens, New York, Bob Dylan, Van Zandt, Cub Koda, Emmylou Harris New!
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Nathan Abshire helped bring the blues and honky tonk to Cajun music and repopularized the accordion with his recordings during the 1950s and '60s, but still never managed to make a living from his music Born in Gueydan, L.A. on June 23, 1913, Abshire began playing professionally in the 1920s, and he first recorded in the early '30s with Happy Fats & His Rayne-Bo Ramblers Abshire went to work at the Basile, L.A. town dump around that time, and he held the job for most of his working life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
roots rock album, bluegrass collection, major country hits, popular female country singers, hardcore honky, new traditionalist country, progressive bluegrass musicians, updated honky, first duet album, honky took blues, hardcore country, excellent title track, releasing several albums, three minor hits, barroom weepers, new traditionalist movement, countrypolitan sound, minor chart entries, rootsy country, leadoff track, pedal steel work, progressive country movement, swinging honky, new country singers, charting hits Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bear Family, Thomas Erlewine, Hank Williams, Warner Bros, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Thom Owens, Willie Nelson, Sugar Hill, Thomas Erlewme, Greg Adams, Bill Monroe, Elvis Presley, Grand Ole Opry, William Ruhlmann, Bob Wills, Chet Atkins, Los Angeles, Buck Owens, New York, Bob Dylan, Van Zandt, Cub Koda, Emmylou Harris New!
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