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Are You Ready for the Country? Peter Doggett

Are You Ready for the Country? By Peter Doggett

Are You Ready for the Country? by Peter Doggett


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Following the unlikely appearance of Bob Dylan on the Johnny Cash Show in 1969, country rock was to become the dominant style in American rock during the following decade. In this history, Peter Doggett introduces the main personalities.

Are You Ready for the Country? Summary

Are You Ready for the Country? by Peter Doggett

In 1969, at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, American music changed for ever. Bob Dylan, the most daredevil spirit of the rock era, took the stage for the first time with Johnny Cash, country music superstar. This show at the temple of country music, The Grand Ole Opry, was the most public evidence of a collision of styles which first occurred in the mid-1950s and has sent shockwaves through American music ever since. Country Rock, as played by the Byrds, the Eagles and Gram Parsons, was to become the dominant style in American music during the 1970s. In this work, Peter Doggett introduces us to all the main personalities - from pioneers like Hank Williams and Elvis Presley, through icons such as the brilliant but self-destructive Gram Parsons and Johnny Cash, to superstars like Neil Young and Willie Nelson and modern artists such as Beck and Wilco. In doing so he traces the uneasy and often explosive relationship between country and rock, which has mirrored the cultural divide between North and South, between Yankee and Rebel.

About Peter Doggett

Peter Doggett was born in 1957. He has been writing about music for 20 years, has interviewed hundreds of rock and country stars in Britain and America and was the editor of Record Collector magazine from 1982 to 1999. Introduced to country by the late 60s recordings of Bob Dylan and Gram Parsons, he has become a passionate champion of all forms of the music, from bluegrass to alt.country.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Country-rock: Nashville skyline rag; country pie; I am a pilgrim; good clean fun; pretty boy Floyd; sin city; king harvest; a trip in the country; sing me back home; England swings; tantamount to treason; pickin' up the pieces; take it easy; back to the garden; desperado; will the circle be unbroken; trouble in paradise; interlude number 1 - Ricky Skaggs - God's hands were on the Beatles. Part 2 Country into rock: my kind of carryin' on; settin' the woods on fire; real rock drive; take the devil out of me; great balls of fire; let's have a party; he'll have to go; urge for going; a star is born; middle age crazy; thank God I'm a country boy; life's little ups and downs; wanted - the outlaws; interlude number 2 - Dixie - a diversion. Part 3 Parallel lines: hotel California; urban cowboy; elite hotel; the new south; interiors; misfits; rednecks; stranger in the house; born in the USA; million dollar quartet; lone star state of mind; across the borderline; gone country; country feedback; epilogue.

Additional information

GOR002268670
9780140261080
0140261087
Are You Ready for the Country? by Peter Doggett
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20010426
576
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