Country & western

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press For the Cowboy Junkies it all begins with a song: an acoustic guitar and a voice. But each song comes to …

Johann Nepomuk Hummel is one of the most brilliant yet overlooked figures in classical music history. A virtuoso pianist, an acclaimed composer, and a visionary educator, Hummel …

This book explores the formation and continuance of Nashville, Tennessee as a music place, the importance of the fans (tourists) in creating Nashville’s multifaceted musical …

On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash (1932–2003) took the stage at Folsom Prison in California. The concert and the live album, At Folsom Prison, propelled him to worldwide …

Oh look, 2016 Fringe First winners Sh!t Theatre again.What is it this time? Oh, is it unemployment? Is there a crisis? Did the government do something wrong again?No, it's a show …

The songs of country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers have been appropriated by dozens of musicians and radically transformed since he first recorded them nearly 90 years ago. His …

With a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs "e;Angel from Montgomery,"e; "e;Sam Stone,"e; and "e;Paradise"e; to the classic country music parody …

A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022 Roland White’s long career has taken him from membership in Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys and Lester Flatt’s Nashville Grass to …

Born in 1916 at the northern end of New Zealand’s South Island, the teenaged Robert William Lane became obsessed with the singing and expressive yodeling of country music’s Jimmie …

For the first time ever, and to help celebrate his 90th birthday in 2023, American icon Willie Nelson provides the stories behind the lyrics of 160 of his favorite songs, along …