Lost Highway - Softcover
This stirring tribute to American roots music - country, rockabilly, and the blues - spotlights artists both celebrated and obscure, including Elvis Presley, Ernest Tubb, Bobby 'Blue' Bland, Merle Haggard and Sleepy LaBeef. Guralnick conveys the passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes desperately, on the road. The second book of a trilogy focusing on the most revolutionary eras in music history, Lost Highway brings to life the people, the songs and the performances that forever changed not only the American country music scene but America itself.
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Guralnick understands so well and expresses so eloquently the forces that grind many of America's greatest artists to dust, and yet never loses sight of the dream that set them all on that highway in the first place -- Lester Bangs Guralnick deploys a master's touch and a lover's intensity to the simultaneous depiction of the character of the individual subject and the world in which he moves. -- Charles Shaar Murray * * NME * * A book not just for fans, but for anyone interested in music, American popular culture, and quietly eloquent writing. * * New York Times * *
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This is a tribute to American roots music - country, rockabilly and the blues - spotlighting artists both celebrated and obscure, including Elvis Presley, Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Merle Haggard and Sleepy LaBeef. Guralnick conveys the passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes desperately, on the road. It is the second book of a triology focusing on the most revolutionary eras in music history.
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- PublisherCanongate Books Ltd
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1841952826
- ISBN 13 9781841952826
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages365
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