Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
by Peter Guralnick
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This masterful exploration of American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. In incisive portraits based on searching interviews with these legendary performers, Peter Guralnick captures the boundless passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes almost desperately, on the road.Tags
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Peter Guralnick's books include the prizewinning two-volume biography of Elvis Presley. Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love: Sweet Soul Music; Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke; and Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll. He won a Grammy for his liner notes for Sam Cooke Live at the harlem Square Club, wrote and coproduced the show more documentary Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll, and wrote the scripts for the Grammy-winning documentary Sam Cooke/Legend and Martin Scorsese's blues documentary Feel Like Going Home. show less
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- Original title
- Lost Highway. Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
- Original publication date
- 1979
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- Genres
- Music, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 781.630922 — Arts & recreation Music General principles and musical forms Traditions of music Non-western popular music {equally instrumental and vocal} Biography And History
- LCC
- ML394 .G95 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Biography
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- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 10
- ASINs
- 3
