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Two iconic bands. An unforgettable life. One of the most dynamic groups of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Talking Heads, founded by drummer Chris Frantz, his girlfriend Tina Weymouth, and lead singer David Byrn……続きを見る

A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe, The Stanley Broth……続きを見る

Learn great flatpicking solos on 30 wonderful Christmas and Holiday tunes! Aimed at beginning and intermediate guitarists, this collection of traditional Holiday favorites will be a great addition t……続きを見る

This book will teach you all the basics of how to play the pedal steel guitar. Sections describe how to tune the pedal steel guitar, which picks to use, slides, explanations of signs and symbols, an……続きを見る

Contributions by Joshua Coleman, Christine Hand Jones, Kevin C. Neece, Charlotte Pence, George Plasketes, Jeffrey Scholes, Jeff Sellars, Toby Thompson, and Jude Warne After performing with Ronnie Ha……続きを見る

John Duffey’s Bluegrass Life: Featuring The Country Gentlemen, Seldom Scene and Washington, D.C. with a Foreword by Tom Gray is the definitive biography of one of bluegrass music’s most important ar……続きを見る

Johnny Cash's death in September 2003 left the music world bereft. His was the most recognisable voice in the history of country music and indeed in the history of recorded music itself. Building mu……続きを見る

This is a revised version of Tommy Flint's highly acclaimed Fingerstyle Blues Guitar solos text. In this edition, Tommy includes 13 new blues guitar solos! Written in notation and tablature, this fi……続きを見る

Includes every note of every solo by the nine top resonator guitarists who contributed to the Grammy Award-winning album of the same title. All 20 tunes (including the 11 solos on Fireball Mail) app……続きを見る

Since he first hitched a ride out of Lubbock, Texas, at the age of sixteen, singer-songwriter and Flatlanders band member Joe Ely has been a road warrior, traveling highways and back roads across Am……続きを見る

In music, the term "bluegrass" describes the hot string-band style pioneered by Kentuckian Bill Monroe, which blends old-time country music with blues rhythms and jazz-influenced improvisation. This……続きを見る

As Bill Monroe is commonly lauded as the father of bluegrass music," his tunes are standard repertoire and should be studied and memorized by any serious student of bluegrass. This book is a collect……続きを見る

The importance of "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" cannot be overstated. It created an understanding among academics and the public of the need to preserve all forms of early music. The Joh……続きを見る

This volume of the new series, School of Country Guitar, from Mel Bay includes a from-the-ground-up explanation of one, two and three string guitar bends - a basic essential technique in today's hot……続きを見る

Interviews with 27 country stars reveal the range of personalities and viewpoints that make up today's country music scene. Journalist Alanna Nash speaks in candid interviews with performers about N……続きを見る

"A compassionate yet clear-eyed" (Washington Post) portrait of country music’s founding father and "Hillbilly King." Mark Ribowsky’s Hank has been hailed as the "greatest biography yet" (Library Jou……続きを見る

In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country mu……続きを見る

The first full history to describe the development of country rock. 続きを見る

In Creating Country Music, Richard Peterson traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumou……続きを見る

This book features twelve of Stephen Bennett's favorite flatpicking solos for the six-string acoustic guitar. Perhaps best known for his work with the harp guitar, Stephen shows the same relaxed, sh……続きを見る

An international modern method of fingerpicking guitar techniques presented in a fun and easy progressive approach. Influences of Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Marcel Dadi are noticed throughout the……続きを見る

A wonderful collection of Dixieland tunes for fingerstyle guitar. Titles include: Indiana, Bill Bailey, 12th Street Rag, When the Saints Go Marching In, That's a Plenty, Way Down Yonder in New Orlea……続きを見る

Written in the 1970s, this CW ballad is in the Key of F and contains melody notes in the treble clef and basic chords in the bass clef. A vocal clef also has melody notes with lyrics underneath and ……続きを見る

In Meeting Jimmie Rodgers, the first book to explore the deep legacy of "The Singing Brakeman" from a twenty-first century perspective, Barry Mazor offers a lively look at Rodgers' career, tracing h……続きを見る

This song was written in the late 1970s for submission to a songwriting contest. Lee was among the winners. The theme is an old fashioned family reunion with lots of food and music. The lyrics appea……続きを見る

This Country-Western song is in the key of F. The sheet music includes lyrics and there also is a "Lyrics Only" sheet for vocalists. The lyrics for this song appear in the novel "Texas Bootstomp Boo……続きを見る

Wynonna Judd has a smile like Elvis Presley’s, a voice comparable to Patsy Cline’s, and a vocal style that’s (almost) all her own. Onstage, she shares the music and the limelight with her Kentucky-b……続きを見る

Carter and Ralph Stanley--the Stanley Brothers--are comparable to Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs as important members of the earliest generation of bluegrass musicians. In this first biography of t……続きを見る

Country music superstar Trace Adkins isn’t exactly known for holding back what’s on his mind. And if the millions of albums he’s sold are any indication, when Trace talks, people listen. Now, in A P……続きを見る

This breezy, easy-to-read, 6800 word eBooklet will teach you the fundamentals of writing lyrics for hit country songs. The author has analyzed in detail hundreds of hit songs to find commonalities a……続きを見る