TONY RUSSELL—COUNTRY MUSIC ORIGINALS—The Lost & Legends

Description: • For Your Consideration: • An UNREAD/VG+ Trade Paperback Edition (Advance Reading Copy) of: • “COUNTRY MUSIC ORIGINALS: The Legends And The Lost”(Harper & Row / A Joan Kahn Book, 1978) (Hardcover, First US Edition, First Printing) • BY TONY RUSSELL • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “Graced by more than 200 illustrations, many of them seldom seen and some never before published, this sparkling volume offers vivid portraits of the men and women who created country music, the artists whose lives and songs formed the rich tradition from which so many others have drawn inspiration. Included here are not only such major figures as JIMMIE RODGERS, THE CARTER FAMILY, FIDDLIN' JOHN CARSON, CHARLIE POOLE, and GENE AUTRY, who put country music on America’s cultural map, but many fascinating lesser-known figures as well, such as CARSON ROBISON, OTTO GRAY, CHRIS BOUCHILLON, EMRY ARTHUR and dozens more, many of whose stories are told here for the first time. To map some of the winding, untraveled roads that connect today's music to its ancestors, TONY RUSSELL draws upon new research and rare source material, such as contemporary newspaper reports and magazine articles, internet genealogy sites, and his own interviews with the musicians or their families. The result is a lively mix of colorful tales and anecdotes, priceless contemporary accounts of performances, illuminating social and historical context, and well-grounded critical judgment. The illustrations include artist photographs, record labels, song sheets, newspaper clippings, cartoons, and magazine covers, recreating the look and feel of the entire culture of country music. Each essay includes as well a playlist of recommended and currently available recordings for each artist. Finally, the paperback edition now features an extensive index.” —THE PUBLISHER • Winner of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Award for Best Research in Recorded Country Music • “RUSSELL has accomplished a spectacular feat in that he has written a thorough reference book that is as pleasing to read as the best of narrative nonfiction.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) • “Few people alive know as much about the early history of country music as TONY RUSSELL does. Even fewer can write as engagingly about it. In these concise portraits of country music's pioneers, he brings America's musical past to life, revealing such dimly remembered figures as UNCLE JIMMY THOMPSON and CHARLIE POOLE as the living, breathing, creative, and complicated characters they once were. Thoroughly entertaining and indispensable for fans of early country and roots music." —PAUL KINGSBURY, “THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COUNTRY MUSIC” • “COUNTRY MUSIC ORIGINALS combines TONY RUSSELL’s encyclopedic knowledge of country music with a lively and matchless prose style. RUSSELL brings to life the work of both major artists and obscure figures whose important contributions might well have been lost were it not for his voluminous research and penetrating insights. It’s a stunning achievement, perhaps the best book yet written on the subject.” —NOLAN PORTERFIELD, “JIMMIE RODGERS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AMERICA'S BLUE YODELER” • “TONY RUSSELL has been one of the most insightful and knowledgeable writers on pre-World-War-II country music for some forty years.... This is a wonderful addition to the country music bibliography, as well as just being a lot of fun to read.” —ELIJAH WALD, SING OUT! • “RUSSELL brings performers like BLIND ALFRED REED to colorful life with a mixture of chatty, opinionated writing, interview extracts and contemporary reviews.... The perfect introduction to what is now truly another world.” —-DOULGAS MCPHERSON, COUNTRY MUSIC PEOPLE • “TONY RUSSELL has been authoring history making contributions to our knowledge and understanding of American roots music since the 1970s. COUNTRY MUSIC ORIGINALS delivers a substantial body of new biographical information—and a host of good stories—about many of the relative obscurities from the era of his Discography.” —BARRY MAZOR, NO DEPRESSION • “This is quite unlike any other equivalent documentation of the genre that I have seen.... If you have any interest in the genre at all this is certainly an essential buy.” —KEITH CHANDLER, MUSICAL TRADITIONS • “TONY RUSSELL is today’s pre-eminent country music historian. His exhaustive research and congenially articulate writings have bequeathed much of what we know about the music and those who made it. Reading COUNTRY MUSIC ORIGINALS has been lots of fun, and I know a lot more now than I did before I opened it.” —DICK SPOTTSWOOD • “For fans of country music this is an essential purchase.” —CHARLIE GILLETT • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “COUNTRY MUSIC ORIGINALS: The Legends and The Lost” AUTHOR: TONY RUSSELL TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK ILLUSTRATIONS: 200+ BLACK & WHITE PHOTOS PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS (New York, London, etc.), 2010 EDITION: First Edition Thus* *EDITION NOTE: On the Copyright Page, this Number Row: “1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.” NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy NOR a book-club edition. 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