Placeholder text

Go to cart

Rural Roots of Bluegrass

By Wayne Erbsen

Product Image: Rural Roots of Bluegrass

Rural Roots of Bluegrass

By Wayne Erbsen

0 - Default Title
Description
Rural Roots of Bluegrass is a songbook and history book that takes a deep at the roots of bluegrass music: ballads and fiddle tunes of Scots-Irish pioneers, black spirituals, plantation melodies, blues, murder ballads, sentimental parlor songs from Tin Pan Alley, North Carolina banjo styles and gospel songs. This book is richly illustrated with 107 vintage photos and includes history, lyrics to 94 songs, musical notation, chords, playing tips, and historical sources for each song. Includes profiles on the Bill Clifton, Bill Monroe, the Blue Sky Boys, Bradley Kincaid, the Callahan Brothers, Carolina Tar Heels, the Carter Family, Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, the Coon Creek Girls, Earl Scruggs, Eck Robertson, Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman, Fiddlin Arthur Smith, Fiddlin John Carson, G. B. Grayson & Henry Whitter, Jimmie Rodgers, Karl and Harty, the Lilly Brothers, Monroe Brothers, the Morris Brothers, Riley Puckett, Samantha Bumgarner, Vernon Dalhart, Snuffy Jenkins and Wade & J. E. Mainer. 6" x 9," 180 pages. The perfect companion to the CD "Rural Roots of Bluegrass."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
180
Release Date:
2003-11-01
Publication Date:
2011-09-01
Publisher:
Native Ground Music
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1883206405
ISBN13:
9781883206406
Weight:
295 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
217 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out