Author: Charles K. Wolfe
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: country, music, legends, classic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-12-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0415928273
ISBN-13: 9780415928274

Now for the first time, country music authority Charles K. Wolfe gathers together his profiles of 50 legends of country music, including Bill Monroe, Lefty Frizzell, and Kitty Wells.

Author: Charles K. Wolfe
Publisher: Country Music Foundation Pre
Keywords: ole, opry, grand, birth, riot, natured
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-05-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 082651331X
ISBN-13: 9780826513311

When Nashville’s National Life and Accident Insurance Company created radio station WSM as an advertising vehicle--the call letters representing their corporate slogan, "We Shield Millions"--no one suspected its "old-time music" program would one day be country music’s shining star. In A Good-Natured Riot, author Charles Wolfe offers a thorough, valuable examination of the Grand Ole Opry’s formative years, answering the questions that the genre’s recorded history cannot (simply because most of the Opry’s earliest stalwarts were part-time musicians who were rarely

Author: Charles K. Wolfe
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: kentucky, country, music, folk
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1996-11-26
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0813108799
ISBN-13: 9780813108797

Now available in paper with a new afterward, Kentucky Country is a lively tour of the state’s indigenous music, from the days of string bands through hillbilly, western swing, gospel, bluegrass, and honkey-tonk to through the Nashville Sound and beyond. Through personal interviews with many of the living legends of Kentucky music, Charles K. Wolfe illuminates a fascinating and important area of American culture. The list of country music stars who hail from Kentucky is a long and glittering one. Red Foley, Bill Monroe, Loretta Lynn, Tom T. Hall, the Judds, Dwight Yaokum, Billy Ray Cyrus,

Author: Charles Wolfe
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: made, music, series, american, brothers, harmony, story, louvin, close
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0878058923
ISBN-13: 9780878058921

The authoritative Grove Dictionary of American Music says they are "probably the greatest traditional country duo in history." The music of the Louvin Brother has influenced almost all revered rock-and-roll singers and country singers, from the Everly Brothers to Emmylou Harris.The essence of country music for many aficionados is harmony singing, and country harmony, for most of these, is synonymous with the blended voices of Ira and Charles Louvin.This book is the first full study of the Louvin Brothers’ remarkable career and of their rich, complex music. Based on extensive research, in

Author: Charles Wolfe
Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Press - Country Music Foundation Press
Keywords: music, foundation, press, country, vanderbilt, masters, southern, fiddling, devil
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-04-30
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0826513247
ISBN-13: 9780826513243

A unique and illuminating overview of the traditions of Southern fiddling, covering the key performers and compositions that defined that genre during its golden age--from the 1920s to the 1950s--and that continue to influence popular music today.It was called "the devil’s box" because the instrument was thought to be sinful to play. Yet in spite of (or perhaps partially because of) that stigma, the fiddle has long been one of America’s favorite instruments.Easily portable, stylistically versatile, and possessing an enchanting timbre, it accompanied the European settlers across Ame

Author: Charles K. Wolfe
Publisher: Pluto Press Australia
Keywords: country, music, legends, classic
Published: 2001
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 186403162X
ISBN-13: 9781864031621

Author: Charles K. Wolfe
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
Keywords: tennessee, star, books, three, country, strings, story, music
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1977-12-10
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0870492241
ISBN-13: 9780870492242