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True to the roots : Americana music revealed / Monte Dutton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dutton, Monte.
- Series:
- Bison Original
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country music--History and criticism.
- Country music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Americana music isn't just a musical form. It's a state of mind. This book charts the coordinates of this state of mind with a series of interviews and portraits from the heart of alternative country, often known to its adherents simply as OKOM: Our Kind of Music.
- Contents:
- Waiting for Jack Ingram
- Music city
- Praise the Lord and pass the weed
- Home on the range
- Charlie Dunn, he's the man to see
- To thine own self be true
- Not the way they do things "up north"
- Forever young
- Getting religious
- about country
- If it's broken, don't fix it
- A man of the people
- Who are "those guys"?
- A unique take on cowboys and Indians
- One-chord song
- The soul of Marty Robbins
- Son of a gypsy songman
- Six days on the road
- Contrary to, uh, anything
- The last angry cowboy
- Ain't no place for no poor boy like me
- Hondo's legacy
- Demented genius
- The last true Texas troubadour
- The novelist begat the songwriter
- Two-night stand
- The ones that got away.
- Notes:
- "A Bison original"--P. [4] of cover.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-70529-9
- 9786610705290
- 0-8032-0716-6
- OCLC:
- 476151865
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