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  • A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths by Fletcher, Tony
    Tony Fletcher

    A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths

    The definitive book about The Smiths, one of the most beloved, respected, and storied indie rock bands in music history.They were, their fans believe, the best band in the world. Hailing from Manchester, England, The Smiths--Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke, and Mike Joyce--were critical...
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  • Ain't It Time We Said Goodbye: The Rolling Stones on the Road to Exile by Greenfield, Robert
    Robert Greenfield

    Ain't It Time We Said Goodbye: The Rolling Stones on the Road to Exile

    Although they did not know it then, when the Rolling Stones embarked on their farewell tour of Great Britain in March 1971 after having announced they were about to go into tax exile in the south of France, it was the end of an...
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  • Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica, 1991-2014 by Brannigan, Paul
    Paul Brannigan

    Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica, 1991-2014

    Into the Black begins on the eve of the release of Metallica's massive breakthrough with the eponymous LP that became known as "The Black Album." Suddenly, at the dawn of the '90s, Metallica was no longer the biggest thrash metal band in the world-they...
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  • Guitar Man: A Six-String Odyssey, or, You Love that Guitar More than You Love Me by Hodgkinson, Will
    Will Hodgkinson

    Guitar Man: A Six-String Odyssey, or, You Love that Guitar More than You Love Me

    The guitar is the iconic instrument of modern popular music. It is portable, it has history, and it will always be hip. But why has the guitar become such a classic? Will Hodgkinson, a wannabe guitar player, whose only experience was an afternoon's bashing...
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  • The Lennon Companion by Thomson, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Thomson

    The Lennon Companion

    John Lennon lives on. Forty years after the Beatles invaded America in 1964, and more than twenty years after Lennon's death, his work is perennially popular and continues to appeal across the generations. A man shrouded in myth and controversy, Lennon led a complex,...
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  • The Da Capo Book of Rock & Roll by Heylin, Clinton
    Clinton Heylin

    The Da Capo Book of Rock & Roll

    Since the early days of rock 'n' roll--since Elvis Presley came out of Memphis to startle the world--a whole body of writing has grown up around it, from the album notes to obituaries, from on-the-road insider tales to dissections of the meaning behind the...
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  • Van Morrison by Collis, John
    John Collis

    Van Morrison

    In an age when image and self-promotion increasingly dominate the rock industry, Van Morrison remains a proud, belligerent outsider. An intensely private man and a revelatory performer, he has communicated more deeply within the limits of rock songwriting--and has been less responsive to the...
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  • Bowie Comp PB by Thomson, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Thomson

    Bowie Comp PB

    Despite his vast influence and perennial popularity, David Bowie remains one of the most elusive figures in rock, and few books have taken a serious look at his remarkable career. The Bowie Companion provides an entertaining overview of nearly three decades of popular culture...
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  • What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis by Stephenson, Ken
    Ken Stephenson

    What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis

    In this concise and engaging analysis of rock music, music theorist Ken Stephenson explores the features that make this internationally popular music distinct from earlier music styles. The author offers a guided tour of rock music from the 1950s to the present, emphasizing the...
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  • Pete Townshend: The Minstrel's Dilemma by Smith, Larry David
    Larry David Smith

    Pete Townshend: The Minstrel's Dilemma

    Smith explores Pete Townshend's artistic struggle between his own creative impulses and those of the commercial public. Faced with a modern version of the minstrel's dilemma, Townshend, early in his career, ignored his creative instincts to satisfy commercial agendas. After his success, he slowly...
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  • Race, Rock, and Elvis by Bertrand, Michael T.
    Michael T. Bertrand

    Race, Rock, and Elvis

    Did Elvis Presley's brand of rock 'n' roll help revise racial attitudes in postwar America? Michael T. Bertrand delves into this question and many others to investigate popular music's revolutionary influence on black-white relations in the South. Youthful fans of rhythm and blues, rock...
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  • Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll by Dore, Florence
    Florence Dore

    Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll

    The 1950s witnessed both the birth of both rock and roll and the creation of Southern literature as we know it. Around the time that Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley put their electric spin on Southern vernacular ballads, a canonical group of white American...
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  • Appetite for Definition: An A-Z Guide to Rock Genres by King, Ian
    Ian King

    Appetite for Definition: An A-Z Guide to Rock Genres

    Part reference book, part history, and part road map to the connectivity of popular music, this book is a must for all rock 'n' roll fans as it brings together a compilation of over two hundred genres of rock music--an entertaining, enlightening, knotty family...
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  • They Call Me Supermensch: A Backstage Pass to the Amazing Worlds of Film, Food, and Rock'n'roll by Gordon, Shep
    Shep Gordon

    They Call Me Supermensch: A Backstage Pass to the Amazing Worlds of Film, Food, and Rock'n'roll

    An eye-popping peek into entertainment industry from the magnetic force who has worked with an impeccable roster of stars throughout his storied career.In the course of his legendary career as a manager, agent, and producer, Shep Gordon has worked with, and befriended, some of...
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  • They Call Me Supermensch: A Backstage Pass to the Amazing Worlds of Film, Food, and Rock'n'roll by Gordon, Shep
    Shep Gordon

    They Call Me Supermensch

    An eye-popping peek into entertainment industry from the magnetic force who has worked with an impeccable roster of stars throughout his storied career.In the course of his legendary career as a manager, agent, and producer, Shep Gordon has worked with, and befriended, some of...
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  • Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain by Cross, Charles R.
    Charles R. Cross

    Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain

    In Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain, Charles R. Cross, author of the New York Times bestselling Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, examines the legacy of the Nirvana front man and takes on the question: why does Kurt Cobain still...
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  • Robert Plant: A Life by Rees, Paul
    Paul Rees

    Robert Plant: A Life

    Robert Plant by Paul Rees is the definitive biography of Led Zeppelin's legendary frontman. As lead singer for one of the biggest and most influential rock bands of all time--whose song "Stairway to Heaven" has been played more times on American radio than any...
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  • 18 and Life on Skid Row by Bach, Sebastian
    Sebastian Bach

    18 and Life on Skid Row

    NPR Best Books of 2017NOW IN GLORIOUS PAPERBACH AND FEATURING NEW PHOTOS18 And Life on Skid Row tells the story of a boy who spent his childhood moving from Freeport, Bahamas to California and finally to Canada and who at the age of eight...
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  • Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith by Aerosmith
    Aerosmith

    Walk This Way

    Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith is available in time for the Aerosmith's 40th Anniversary. It's the New York Times bestselling autobiography by the legendary rock group that lived by the motto "Anything worth doing was worth overdoing." Aerosmith shook the music world...
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  • Nothin' to Lose: The Making of Kiss (1972-1975) by Sharp, Ken
    Ken Sharp

    Nothin' to Lose: The Making of Kiss (1972-1975)

    An indelible and irresistible portrait of the crucial formative years of the legendary rock band KISS and the music scene they changed forever--culminating with the groundbreaking success of their classic 1975 album Alive and the smash single "Rock and Roll All Nite"Including original interviews...
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  • The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Beyer, Rick
    Rick Beyer

    The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy

    "Full of tasty morsels. A delightful book to arm one for the next dull cocktail party." --Chicago TribuneRick Beyer, author of the highly successful History Channel series The Greatest Stories Never Told returns with new historic tales from the world of music--ennobling, entrancing and...
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  • Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes--From Punk to Indie and Everything in Between by Simon, Leslie
    Leslie Simon

    Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes--From Punk to Indie and Everything in Between

    A snarky, fact-filled look at the people and places that made the indie/punk scene what it is todayThe American underground music scene is exploding everywhere--not just in New York City and L.A. (although we've got those cities covered too ): In Washington, D.C. ....
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  • The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling by Myers, Mitch
    Mitch Myers

    The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling

    Wedding the American oral storytelling tradition with progressive music journalism, Mitch Myers' The Boy Who Cried Freebird is a treatise on the popular music culture of the twentieth century. Trenchant, insightful, and wonderfully strange, this literary mix-tape is authentic music history . . ....
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  • Ac/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll: The Ultimate Story of the World's Greatest Rock-And-Roll Band by Engleheart, Murray
    Murray Engleheart

    Ac/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll: The Ultimate Story of the World's Greatest Rock-And-Roll Band

    After more than three decades and 150 million albums, AC/DC has established itself as much more than just a great rock band. For millions of fans spanning several generations across the world, they are an ear-bleedingly loud, sweat-soaked religion.Now, in a book of astonishing...
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  • Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith by Aerosmith
    Aerosmith

    Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith

    Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith is available in time for the Aerosmith's 40th Anniversary. It's the New York Times bestselling autobiography by the legendary rock group that lived by the motto "Anything worth doing was worth overdoing." Aerosmith shook the music world...
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  • Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World by Stark, Steven D.
    Steven D. Stark

    Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World

    Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation...
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  • Slipknot: All Hope Is Gone by Slipknot
    Slipknot

    Slipknot: All Hope Is Gone

    (Guitar Recorded Versions). All the songs from the fourth studio album by these masked alt-metal wonders. 12 note-for-note transcriptions with tab, including the title track and: Butcher's Hook * Dead Memories * Psychosocial * Snuff * Sulfur * Vendetta * Wherein Lies Continue *...
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  • Best of Pixies by Pixies
    Pixies

    Best of Pixies

    (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). With their searing guitars and esoteric lyrics, this indie Boston art band paved the way for the alt-rock explosion of the early '90s. Our best-of folio features a dozen faves sure to please their rabid fans: Bone Machine * Debaser *...
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  • Long Train Runnin': Our Story of the Doobie Brothers by Simmons, Pat
    Pat Simmons

    Long Train Runnin': Our Story of the Doobie Brothers

    For the first time, the incredible true story of the legendary band, the Doobie Brothers, written by founding members Pat Simmons and Tom Johnston.Only a very few rock bands have had the longevity, success, and drama of the Doobie Brothers. Born out of late...
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  • Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s by Paul, Alan
    Alan Paul

    Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s

    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author Alan Paul's in-depth narrative look at the Allman Brothers' most successful album, and a portrait of an era in rock and roll and American history.The Allman Brothers Band's Brothers and Sisters was not...
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  • Yngwie Malmsteen: Book & CD [With CD] by Malmsteen, Yngwie
    Yngwie Malmsteen

    Yngwie Malmsteen: Book & CD [With CD]

    A companion to Yngwie's immensely successful REH video, this book and CD package takes you step-by-step through many of Yngwie's licks, patterns, solos, and rhythm parts. All music is transcribed in notation and tablature. A major tool for studying Yngwie's style, a fusion of...
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  • AC/DC at 50 by Popoff, Martin
    Martin Popoff

    AC/DC at 50

    A beautifully produced, photo-packed celebration of the ultimate rock band, AC/DC at 50 examines the extraordinary history of the Australian rockers through the lens of 50 milestone events and an illustrated gatefold timeline. Formed in Australia in 1973, AC/DC became one of the most...
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  • Heroes of the Metal Underground: The Definitive Guide to 1980s American Independent Metal Bands by Anesiadis, Alexandros
    Alexandros Anesiadis

    Heroes of the Metal Underground: The Definitive Guide to 1980s American Independent Metal Bands

    The only encyclopedic and definitive book on American indie metal!If all you know about metal music was what was heard on commercial radio, then you don't know metal at all. Heroes of the Metal Underground profiles over 1100 American bands from every town and...
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  • Radio Free Boston: The Rise and Fall of WBCN by Alan, Carter
    Carter Alan

    Radio Free Boston: The Rise and Fall of WBCN

    The definitive story of the pioneering rock radio station that galvanized a city and a generationAuthor: Carter AlanISBN-10: 1555537294ISBN-13: 9781555537296Publisher: University Press of New EnglandLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2013Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d
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  • The Sex Pistols Invade America: The Fateful U.S. Tour, January 1978 by O'Shea, Mick
    Mick O'Shea

    The Sex Pistols Invade America: The Fateful U.S. Tour, January 1978

    In November 1977, Warner Bros. secured the rights to release the album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols in America. The following January, the Sex Pistols--already the "scourge" of Britain--were discovered by unsuspecting American audiences in an infamous U.S. tour, accompanied by...
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  • Guitar Greats of Jacksonville by Fitzgerald, Michael Ray
    Michael Ray Fitzgerald

    Guitar Greats of Jacksonville

    Melt your face off with the guitar greats of Jacksonville. In the 1960s, the electric guitar became for boys what Barbie was for girls. Legions of bands formed, composed of teens making a ruckus in the garage. But who could have guessed how many...
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  • Red Rock by Campbell, Jonathan
    Jonathan Campbell

    Red Rock

    Rock and roll-rebellious, individualistic, explosive-seems incongruent with modern Chinese society. Red Rock looks at the people and events that have created Chinese rock's unique identity and tracks the music's long journey from the Mao years to present. After boiling below the surface for over...
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  • It's Not Only Rock & Roll Baby! by Sans, Jérôme
    J駻e Sans

    It's Not Only Rock & Roll Baby!

    On the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the famed Benicassim/ Rock Werchter music festival, along with the new exhibition at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, this book explores the "unknown" visual side of some of the most popular faces of rock...
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  • Don Kirshner: The Man with the Golden Ear: How He Changed the Face of Rock and Roll by Podolsky, Rich
    Rich Podolsky

    Don Kirshner: The Man with the Golden Ear: How He Changed the Face of Rock and Roll

    In 1958, long before he created and hosted Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, the most dynamic rock-and-roll series in television history, before he developed the Monkees and created the Archies, Don Kirshner was a 23-year-old kid with just a dream in his pocket. Five years...
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  • Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability by McKay, George
    George McKay

    Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability

    Given the explosion in recent years of scholarship exploring the ways in which disability is manifested and performed in numerous cultural spaces, it's surprising that until now there has never been a single monograph study covering the important intersection of popular music and disability....
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  • Bruce Springsteen - Born to Dream: 50 Years of the Boss by James, Alison
    Alison James

    Bruce Springsteen - Born to Dream: 50 Years of the Boss

    For over fifty years, Bruce Springsteen has been on top of the Rock 'n' Roll stage with 20 studio albums - from his debut Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. to 2020's Letter to You - his a life dedicated to music-making and committed social...
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  • Elton John - Farewell by McHugh, Carolyn
    Carolyn McHugh

    Elton John - Farewell

    During a dazzling 50 year musical career Sir Elton John has risen from playing the piano in the pubs of Pinner in North London to become a multi award winning global superstar with record sales of over 1 billion. Elton John - Farewell tells...
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  • Another Day - Paul McCartney: Life Beyond the Beatles by Chrisp, Pete
    Pete Chrisp

    Another Day - Paul McCartney: Life Beyond the Beatles

    After the breakup of the Beatles in 1971, Paul McCartney formed Wings with his wife Linda on keyboards, ex-Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine, and American session drummer Denny Seiwell. For ten dramatic and turbulent years, the band weathered the critics, endured drug busts, survived...
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  • Aladdin Sane 50: The Definitive Celebration of Bowie's Iconic Album and Music's Most Famous Photograph - With Unseen Images by Duffy, Chris
    Chris Duffy

    Aladdin Sane 50: The Definitive Celebration of Bowie's Iconic Album and Music's Most Famous Photograph - With Unseen Images

    On the fiftieth anniversary of David Bowie's magical album, Aladdin Sane 50 is the ultimate celebration of a musical masterpiece - and the most famous photograph in pop history. This landmark book contains hundreds of photographs, including dozens of David from the Aladdin Sane...
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  • Pink: Raise Your Glass by Zaleski, Annie
    Annie Zaleski

    Pink: Raise Your Glass

    Pink is one of the most trailblazing artists of our time. Her breakthrough album, Missundaztood, was released to critical acclaim in 2001 and showcased her unique, powerhouse pop vocals, as well as her rebellious style. In the two decades since, she has remained firmly...
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  • Alastair Riddell's Space Waltz by Chapman, Ian
    Ian Chapman

    Alastair Riddell's Space Waltz

    Alastair Riddell's band Space Waltz was a short-lived one-album New Zealand rock act who hit gold with a #1 hit single in October 1974 with the song 'Out On The Street' but thereafter failed to achieve anything even close to that feat. While relegated...
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  • Beatles on the Charts: All Group and Solo Albums and Singles Ranked by Popularity by Ventrella, Michael A.
    Michael A. Ventrella

    The Beatles on the Charts: All Group and Solo Albums and Singles Ranked by Popularity

    Billboard magazine named The Beatles the greatest performing musical act of all time, and their albums continue to chart to this day. This is no surprise to the author, who combed through nearly 60 years of the magazine, week by week, to compile a...
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  • Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
    Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

    Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock

    In Los Angeles, from the early 1960s through the late 1980s, young musicians and singers formed tight-knit musical communities anchored by nightclubs such as the Ash Grove, the Troubadour, and the Palomino. These musicians injected elements of folk, bluegrass, and country to enliven and...
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  • The Downhome Sound: Diversity and Politics in Americana Music by Bailey, Mandi Bates
    Mandi Bates Bailey

    The Downhome Sound: Diversity and Politics in Americana Music

    American roots music, also known as Americana music, can be challenging to categorize, spanning the genres of jazz, bluegrass, country, blues, rock and roll, and an assortment of variations in between. In The Downhome Sound, Mandi Bates Bailey explores the messages, artists, community, and...
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  • The Downhome Sound: Diversity and Politics in Americana Music by Bailey, Mandi Bates
    Mandi Bates Bailey

    The Downhome Sound: Diversity and Politics in Americana Music

    American roots music, also known as Americana music, can be challenging to categorize, spanning the genres of jazz, bluegrass, country, blues, rock and roll, and an assortment of variations in between. In The Downhome Sound, Mandi Bates Bailey explores the messages, artists, community, and...
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