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In it for the long run : a musical odyssey / Jim Rooney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rooney, Jim, 1938-
- Series:
- Music in American Life
- Music in American life
- Music in American Life Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rooney, Jim, 1938-.
- Rooney, Jim.
- Sound recording executives and producers--United States--Biography.
- Sound recording executives and producers.
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Folk music--United States--History and criticism.
- Folk music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Inspired by the Hank Williams and Leadbelly recordings he heard as a teenager growing up outside of Boston, Jim Rooney began a musical journey that intersected with some of the biggest names in American music including Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Bill Monroe, Muddy Waters, and Alison Krauss.
- Contents:
- Going my own way in the world. Tex and Abe ; Beats and bluegrass at Amherst ; Into the folk and bluegrass pool ; The light of Greece ; Ireland of the welcomes ; The Club 47 ; Festival time
- Finding my own voice. Time out : Bossmen ; Woodstock ; Ramblin' man ; Sitting in limbo ; Enter : 'cowboy' ; Baby, let me follow you down ; Toontown ; The dead cowboys
- Following my own path. At home in the studio ; Coming into my own ; Completions ; Forerunner ; The Texas connection ; Bringing it all back home ; Forerunner : onward and upward ; Infamous angel ; Old friends ; Carol again ; Other voices ; Growing pains ; Out west ; Changing times
- The long run. A new life ; Bluegrass and folk voices ; Prine country time I ; Ireland calls ; Back to business ; All this way for the short ride ; Herbal and me ; Prine country time II ; Life after Forerunner.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Discography (pages ).
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-252-09606-1
- OCLC:
- 871036955
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