This fascinating autobiography of the country music legend recounts the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs of his remarkable life.

The latest in the hugely popular Fun Time activity book series. A collection of pop culture activity fun for both adults and children, focusing on country music, this book is sure to cheer up anyone.

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. This title presents a historical study that discusses three of Rodgers' most influential songs - Muleskinner Blues , In the Jailhouse Now , and T for Texas .

Examines the artists and songs from the golden age of Country Music.

In this sparkling collection, roots music authority Tony Russell offers vivid portraits of the those who created country music. Included here are not only major figures who put country music on America's cultural map in the 1920s and '30s, but many fascinating lesser-known figures as well, many of whose stories are told here for the first time.

From the classic days of Red Foley, Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash to the country super-stars like the Dixie Chicks and Toby Keith, Billboard magazine has been keeping tabs on the best-sellers in country music. This book provides information on the top recording artists and their biggest songs.

Focuses on prominent families in American roots music, kinfolk who have stretched their artistic influence across generations. This title includes pieces about bedrock clans of country music - the Carters and the Cashes - and folk music - the Guthries and the Seegers.

Billboard 1964 to 2007. A complete history of Billboard's Country Albums chart - artist by artist, album, by album, and track by track.

This is the official, authorised tribute and celebration of a one-of-a-kind country, folk and rock music legend, Johnny Cash. He recorded more than 1500 songs in his illustrious career and worked with a vast range of artists including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty and Joe Strummer.

Jim McGuire's photographs have graced the covers of more than 400 albums and CDs. This volume presents sixty of his highly acclaimed portraits reproduced in handsome duotone on heavy stock paper, each accompanied by a brief history of the portrayed artist.

The only guide dedicated exclusively to Contemporary Country Music.

During the final years of Bill Monroe's life, bluegrass fiddler Gene Lowinger took a series of on- and off-stage photographs of Monroe on the road. This book presents these photos as well as other photos documenting Lowinger's involvement with the bluegrass scene beginning in the early 1960s.

This book is a study of hard country music as well as a comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music. The author compares hard country music to mainstream country music and to high culture, arguing that hard country deliberately focuses on its low position in the American cultural hierachy.

This work explores the American country music culture. The book reveals a history that encompasses blackface minstrels, cowboys, rockabilly, medieval myth, sex, drugs and murder and includes stories of Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and others famous and forgotten.

Country Music Records is an indispensable resource for anyone seriously interested in early country music recordings.

'Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942' documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through to 1942, including unreleased sides. The discography includes alphabetical indexes to all song titles and musicians listed. Research is based on files and session logs from record companies and recording archives.

Celebrating country music and exploring every style from Hillbilly and Bluegrass to Nashville and Country Rock, this book features the key artists from Jimmie Rodgers to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash.

A collection of classic writings on the Man in Black, Johnny Cash, by a list of music writers. They consider Cash decade by decade, from his birth in 1932, through his meteoric rise to fame in the 1960s and early 1970s, through his two-decade slump and his resurgence in the 1990s.