Lost Bluegrass

Author : Ronnie Dreistadt
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625841872

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Lost Bluegrass by Ronnie Dreistadt Pdf

The Bluegrass region has come to define what makes Kentucky a place unlike any other. What began as the homeland of native tribes developed into ideal farmland for early settlers. Development continued as the region evolved into the premier breeding grounds for world-famous thoroughbreds, helping to bring the Bluegrass international recognition as the epicenter of American horseracing and equestrian culture. Yet development of the region has never stopped. The rolling hills, limestone fences and legendary horse farms that once defined the landscape continue to vanish as suburban sprawl stretches into the far reaches of the Bluegrass. Join author Ronnie Dreistadt as he tracks the history of the Bluegrass, what's been lost and the ongoing efforts to save what remains.

Author : Peter Brackney
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625851284

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Lost Lexington, Kentucky by Peter Brackney Pdf

Lexington has dozens of well-restored landmarks, but unfortunately so many more are lost forever. The famous Phoenix Hotel, a longtime stop for weary travelers and politicians alike, has risen from its own ashes numerous times over the past centuries. The works of renowned architect John McMurtry were once numerous around town, but some of the finest examples are gone. The Centrepointe block has been made and unmade so many times that its original tenants are unknown to natives now. Join local blogger, attorney and preservationist Peter Brackney as he explores the intriguing back stories of these hidden Bluegrass treasures.

Author : Neil V. Rosenberg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252072456

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Bluegrass by Neil V. Rosenberg Pdf

The twentieth anniversary paperback edition, updated with a new preface Winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association Distinguished Achievement Award and of the Country Music People Critics' Choice Award for Favorite Country Book of the Year Beginning with the musical cultures of the American South in the 1920s and 1930s, Bluegrass: A History traces the genre through its pivotal developments during the era of Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys in the forties. It describes early bluegrass's role in postwar country music, its trials following the appearance of rock and roll, its embracing by the folk music revival, and the invention of bluegrass festivals in the mid_sixties. Neil V. Rosenberg details the transformation of this genre into a self-sustaining musical industry in the seventies and eighties is detailed and, in a supplementary preface written especially for this new edition, he surveys developments in the bluegrass world during the last twenty years. Featuring an amazingly extensive bibliography, discography, notes, and index, this book is one of the most complete and thoroughly researched books on bluegrass ever written.

Author : Kip Lornell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199863112

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Capital Bluegrass by Kip Lornell Pdf

With its rich but underappreciated musical heritage, Washington, D.C. is often overlooked as a cradle for punk, the birthplace of go go, and as the urban center for bluegrass in the Untied States. Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, D.C. richly documents the history and development of bluegrass in and around the nation's capital since it emerged in the 1950s. In his seventeenth book, American vernacular music scholar Kip Lornell discusses both well-known progressive bluegrass bands including the Country Gentlemen and the Seldom Scene, and lesser known groups like the Happy Melody Boys, Benny and Vallie Cain and the Country Clan, and Foggy Bottom. Lornell focuses on colorful figures such as the brilliant and eccentric mandolin player, Buzz Busby, and Connie B. Gay, who helped found the Country Music Association in Nashville. Moving beyond the musicians to the institutions that were central to the development of the genre, Lornell brings the reader into the nationally recognized Birchmere Music Hall, and tunes in to NPR powerhouse WAMU-FM, which for five decades broadcast as much as 40 hours a week of bluegrass programming. Dozens of images illuminate the story of bluegrass in the D.C. area, photographs and flyers that will be new to even the most veteran bluegrass enthusiast. Bringing to life a music and musical community integral to the history of the city itself, Capital Bluegrass tells an essential tale of bluegrass in the United States.

Author : Dayton Duncan,Ken Burns
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525520542

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Country Music by Dayton Duncan,Ken Burns Pdf

The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019 This gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation--a diverse range of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive commercial success today. But above all, Country Music is the story of the musicians. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood, and Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women everywhere. Here too are interviews with the genre's biggest stars, including the likes of Merle Haggard to Garth Brooks to Rosanne Cash. Rife with rare photographs and endlessly fascinating anecdotes, the stories in this sweeping yet intimate history will captivate longtime country fans and introduce new listeners to an extraordinary body of music that lies at the very center of the American experience.

Author : Robert Cantwell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bluegrass music
ISBN : 0252071174

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Bluegrass Breakdown by Robert Cantwell Pdf

Bluegrass music is an original characterization, simply called a 'representation, ' of traditional Appalachian music in its social form.

Author : WAYNE ERBSEN
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781609745462

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Rural Roots of Bluegrass by WAYNE ERBSEN Pdf

Wayne Erbsen's newest book takes a deep look at bluegrass music to uncover its true roots: ballads of early pioneers, Scots-Irish fiddle tunes, black spirituals, plantations melodies, blues, murder ballads, sentimental parlor songs from Tin Pan Alley, North Carolina banjo styles and gospel songs. the book is richly illustrated with over 100 vintage photos and includes lyrics, musical notation, chords, history and playing tips to 94 songs. There are also nearly 80 pages of history and profiles portraying important musicians including the Monroe Brothers, Carter Family, Bradley Kincaid, Riley Puckett, Charlie Poole, Wade & J.E. Mainer, Vernon Dalhart, Carolina Tar Heels, G.B. Grayson and Henry Whitter, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, Ernest V. Stoneman, Blue Sky Boys, Fiddlin' John Carson, Coon Creek Girls, Earl Scruggs, Eck Robertson, Callahan Brothers, Samantha Bumgarner, Bill Monroe Zeke & Wiley Morris, Jimmie Rodgers and Stringbean. Optional CD by Wayne Erbsen and Laura Boosinger is available containing fourteen songs from the book.

Author : Barry R. Willis
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643002941

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The Banjo Pilot by Barry R. Willis Pdf

The Banjo Pilot is the story of Duke Steel, a North Carolina bluegrass banjo player who played banjo with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys in 1949. He then goes on to start his own band. After a personal tragedy involving a plane accident with his wife on board, he later joins a major airline as a pilot in 1958. After twenty years, he reacquaints himself with the bluegrass community when his daughter brings him back into the world of bluegrass. He teaches a new band how to play the style of bluegrass he learned from Bill Monroe and helps them learn enough to possibly win the band contest. The next week he takes the entire band to an important festival in a private plane. He has another flying incident coming home. The novel features extensive coverage of flying, bluegrass music and its pioneers, Christianity, tension and excitement, even a love story. This is for the bluegrass music newbie, as well as the veteran historian. It also features loads of excitement for the bush pilot as well as the airline pilot. It is for the Christian as well as the non-Christian.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Erosion
ISBN : IND:30000101785743

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Soil Conservation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bluegrass music
ISBN : UCSC:32106019232393

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Bluegrass Unlimited by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:30000010115677

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Technical Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Palmer
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307781222

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Natural Causes by Michael Palmer Pdf

“Reinvents the medical thriller.”—Library Journal Dr. Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labor has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under horrifying identical circumstances. And so begins Sarah's own nightmare, as she learns that the prenatal herbal vitamins she prescribed are the only thing these women have in common. Soon Sarah is fighting to save her career, her reputation—her life. For she's certain there must be some unknown factor linking these women, and as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that someone will do anything—even murder—to keep a devastating secret.

Author : Herbert Howe Morse,United States. Soil Conservation Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Erosion
ISBN : OSU:32435074217738

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Erosion and Related Land Use Conditions on the Muskingum River Watershed by Herbert Howe Morse,United States. Soil Conservation Service Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1406 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Flood control
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009888897

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Flood Control: The Mississippi River and its tributaries. Hearings Nov. 7 to 22, Nov. 28 to Dec. 19, 1927, Jan. 5-17, Jan. 18 to 26, Jan. 27-Feb. 1, 1928 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control Pdf

Author : William Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Livestock
ISBN : CORNELL:31924001129588

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Livestock Farming by William Jackson Pdf