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Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass

by Murphy Henry

Untold and unsung stories of women in bluegrass

Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians

by Peter Guralnick

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,...

Luck or Something Like It

by Kenny Rogers

A remarkable story of a boy who couldn't stop singing, and a man who knew how to hold 'em

For more than half a century, Kenny Rogers has been recording some of the most revered and beloved music in America and...

Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock

by Bob Kealing

On September 19, 1973, Gram Parsons became yet another rock-and-roll casualty in an era of excess, a time when young men wore their dangerous habits like badges of honor. Unfortunately, his many musical accomplishments...

Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock

by John Einarson

The first full history to describe the development of country rock.

Willie: An Autobiography

by Willie Nelson & Bud Shrake

Willie Nelson is more than just a singer whose albums have captured the imagination of America for more than thirty years.

Family Tradition - Three Generations of Hank Williams

by Susan Masino

Book

Covering three generations of Hank Williams, Family Tradition is both unique and vast in scope. Beginning in the present day with Hank III who gave the author unprecedented access and time-traveling across...

Elvis Presley: Memphis

by Mark P. P. Bernardo

Weaving the story of the King’s personal and public life with detailed descriptions of the locations in Memphis that served as the setting for his musical education and evolution, this pop culture guide offers...

In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music

by Nicholas Dawidoff

From the author of the bestselling The Catcher Was a Spy comes an exhilarating exploration of the performers, places, and experiences which form country music--a genre which is uniquely and authentically American....

Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me

by Brad Paisley & David Wild

The Story of a Life with Strings Attached

Brad Paisley is one of country music’s leading men—admired as a recording artist, a performer, a songwriter, and a guitar slinger. This was not always so. In Diary...

I Love You a Thousand Ways: The Lefty Frizzell Story

by David Frizzell & Merle Haggard

Telling the story of one of country music’s most influential artists, this biography details the incredible journey of a brilliant singer-songwriter from his humble beginnings in Arkansas and the peak of his...

They Came to Nashville

by Marshall Chapman & Peter Guralnick

Musician-turned-author/journalist Marshall Chapman (Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller) asks Nashville stars what brought them to Music City USA.

If Trouble Don't Kill Me: A Family's Story of Brotherhood, War, and Bluegrass

by Ralph Berrier

Making moonshine, working blue-collar jobs, picking fights in bars, chasing women, and living hardscrabble lives . . .

Clayton and Saford Hall were born in the backwoods of Virginia in 1919, in a place known...

Buck Owens: The Biography

by Eileen Sisk

Retracing the life of Buck Owens—from his poverty-stricken youth as the son of a sharecropper to one of the nation’s best-loved and wealthiest entertainers—this biography pays tribute to the man and his...

Literary Cash: Unauthorized Writings Inspired by the Legendary Johnny Cash

by Bob Batchelor

The legendary lyrics of Johnny Cash are the inspiration for this collection of extraordinarily creative works that provides a new spin on this musical legend. For nearly five decades, Cash captivated audiences...

The Grand Ole Opry: The Making of an American Icon

by Colin Escott & Vince Gill

This official guide chronicles the story of the birthplace of country music as told by the people who were there. Escott presents the official inside history of the home of country music, offering fans an exclusive...

Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain: Tales of Romance and Tragedy

by Grand Ole Opry & Robert K. Oermann

The Grand Ole Opry has been home to the greatest legends of country music for over eighty years, and in that time it has seen some of conutry music's most dramatic stories unfold.

We'll hear of the great love...

A Guitar and a Pen: Stories by Country Music's Greatest Songwriters

by Robert Hicks, John Bohlinger & Justin Stelter

Nothing tells a story better than the story-songs of country music. A GUITAR AND A PEN presents, for the first time, the literary work of some of the best storytellers in the world: the songwriters who cut and...

Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City

by Craig Havighurst

Started by the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in 1925, WSM became one of the most influential and exceptional radio stations in the history of broadcasting and country music. WSM gave Nashville...

Growing Up Country: What Makes Country Life Country

by Charlie Daniels

From Growing Up Country:

“I learned early in life that country is not a place on a map. Country is a place in your heart. In your soul. In the very depth of your being.” —Bill Anderson

“One of the things...