Highways and heartaches : how Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, and children of the New South saved the soul of country music
Streissguth, Michael2023
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In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky sits a sagging outdoor stage buried in moss and dead leaves. It used to be the centerpiece of carnival-like Sunday afternoons where local guitarists, fiddlers, and mandolin players hammered out old mountain ballads and legends from the dawn of country music performed their classic hits. Most of the musicians who showed up have long since passed, but Nashville stars Ricky Skaggs and Marty Stuart survive. They were barely teenagers in the early 1970s when they visited this stage in the care of legends Ralph Stanley and Lester Flatt, respectively. 'Highways and Heartaches' takes readers on the rural circuit Skaggs and Stuart travelled, where an acoustic sound first assembled by masters such as Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, and Mother Maybelle Carter ruled the day.
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Author:
Streissguth, Michael, author
Imprint:
London : Hachette Books, 2023.
Collation:
304 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780306826108 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2625697