Malone pens the story of Clifton's eclectic life and influential career. The most atypical of bluegrass artists, Bill Clifton has enjoyed a long career as a recording artist, performer, and champion of old-time music. Expand Descriptionīean Blossom: The Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Festivals Margie Greve’s hand-embroidered color portraits offer a portfolio of the pioneers and contemporary practitioners of Americana. Today, Brandi Carlile and I’m With Her are among the musicians carrying the genre into the twenty-first century.Įssential and engaging, Americanaland chronicles the evolution and resonance of this ever-changing amalgam of American music. The name Americana was coined in the 1990s to describe similarly inclined artists like Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, and Wilco. Performers like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, and Gram Parsons used these ingredients to create influential music that took well-established genres down exciting new roads. At base a hybrid of rock and country, Americana is also infused with folk, blues, R&B, bluegrass, and other types of roots music. John Milward’s Americanaland is filled with the enduring performers and vivid stories that are at the heart of Americana. With a claim on artists from Jimmie Rodgers to Jason Isbell, Americana can be hard to define, but you know it when you hear it. Expand DescriptionĪmericanaland: Where Country & Western Met Rock 'n' RollĪ musical genre forever outside the lines
Introducing the reader to colorful artists and businessmen from the station’s history, including Owen Bradley, Minnie Pearl, Jim Denny, Edwin Craig, and Dinah Shore, the volume invites the reader to reflect on the status of Nashville, radio, and country music in American culture. Sparked by public outcry following a proposal to pull country music and the Opry from WSM-AM in 2002, Craig Havighurst scoured new and existing sources to document the station’s profound effect on the character and self-image of Nashville. With the rise of country music broadcasting and recording between the 1920s and ‘50s, WSM, Nashville, and country music became inseparable, stemming from WSM’s launch of the Grand Ole Opry, popular daily shows like Noontime Neighbors, and early morning artist-driven shows such as Hank Williams on Mother’s Best Flour. WSM gave Nashville the moniker “Music City USA” as well as a rich tradition of music, news, and broad-based entertainment.
Started by the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in 1925, WSM became one of the most influential and exceptional radio stations in the history of broadcasting and country music.
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