All Music Guide to Country: The Experts' Guide to the Best Country Recordings Paperback - 1997
by Chris Woodstra (Editor); Stephen Thomas Erlewine (Editor); Vladimir Bogdanov (Editor)
This complete guide to country performers and their top recordings covers the entire spectrum of the genre, from 1920's hillbilly yodelers to the 1990's superstars. Artists are listed alphabetically and briefly profiled, with their best CDs, albums, and tapes concisely reviewed and rated by noted critics.
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Nathan Abshire helped bring the blues and honky tonk to Cajun music and re-popularized the accordion with his recordings during the 1950s and '60s, but still never managed a living from his music.
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For country music fans everywhere, this is a comprehensive guide to the entire spectrum of the music, from string bands and old-timey country, to new traditionalists, alternative country, and today's Nashville superstars. A wealth of great country music has been made over the course of the 20th century, but unfortunately that music hasn't always been well presented. Country has a history of poorly assembled studio albums, quickly recorded cash-in albums, budget-priced compilations, and rerecordings. This book helps listeners to sort through all of this and find the best recordings of old favorites, as well as to discover some great music they may not have heard before. The All Music Guide to Country points out which albums have all the original recordings, which budget-line collections are actually worth acquiring, and which old records are worth a search. Designed for devoted country fans and newcomers alike, this book is packed with fascinating and informative features, including biographies of more than 1,000 artists and groups, providing thorough and concise overviews of their careers; reviews and ratings of the best recordings of each performermore than 5,500 in all; historical essays and "music maps" charting the roots and evolution of country music, its styles, instruments, key artists, and more; and country resources, including book reviews, magazine listings, online sites, and mail-order sources.
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- Title All Music Guide to Country: The Experts' Guide to the Best Country Recordings
- Author Chris Woodstra (Editor); Stephen Thomas Erlewine (Editor); Vladimir Bogdanov (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1St Edition
- Pages 640
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Backbeat Books, San Francisco
- Date 1997-06-01
- Features Maps
- ISBN 9780879304751 / 0879304758
- Weight 1.97 lbs (0.89 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.14 x 1.28 in (23.47 x 15.60 x 3.25 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97060980
- Dewey Decimal Code 781.642
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Citations
- Booklist, 11/01/1997, Page 506
- Rec Ref Bks in Paperback, 01/01/2000, Page 188
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