Country category: 255 books
Willie
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2000
Willie Nelson is more than just a singer whose albums have captures this country's imagination for more than thirty years: he is the nearest thing we have to the poet laureate of America's heart and the heartland. Told with frankness, warmth and earthy humor, here is Willie's story: his depression...
A Personal Stand
Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Country music superstar Trace Adkins isn’t exactly known for holding back what’s on his mind. And if the millions of albums he’s sold are any indication, when Trace talks, people listen. Now, in A Personal Stand, Trace Adkins delivers his maverick manifesto on politics, personal responsibility,...
by Steve Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from...
Pilgrims: Sinners, Saints, and Prophets
Sinners, Saints, and Prophets
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
Marty Stuart, one of the most popular country artists, portrays well-known and not-so-well-known pilgrims through spectacular photographs and well-written words. Marty portrays in the book "a life that ain't easy, but one that I understand".
Lost Highway
Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This masterful explorationof 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...
Ryan Adams
Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Before he achieved his dream of being an internationally known rock personality, Ryan Adams had a band in Raleigh, North Carolina. Whiskeytown led the wave of insurgent-country bands that came of age with No Depression magazine in the mid-1990s, and for many people it defined the era. Adams was an...
by Patrick Bunker
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Johnny Cash
The Inspirational Story of the Music and Life of Johnny Cash
By Patrick Bunker
Johnny Cash was an American singing legend. His musical career lasted many years. He played many different types of music including country and gospel.
Johnny Cash was a man who lived life...
by j.w. carter
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
True story of Johnny Cash & the Carter Family written by his third cousin, who was also a country music promoter. Written as a fan's tribute.
by Andrew Means
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
“Some memories just won’t die,” country music legend Marty Robbins sang in one of his final recordings before his death from heart failure on December 8th, 1982.
In this memoir, his twin sister Mamie tells journalist Andrew Means about the childhood she shared with Marty in and around Phoenix,...
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?
The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Mus
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The first major biography of the Carter Family, the musical pioneers who almost single-handedly created the sounds and traditions that grew into modern folk, country, and bluegrass music.
Meticulously researched and lovingly written, it is a look at a world and a culture that, rather than passing,...
Lovesick Blues
The Life of Hank Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Hank Williams, the quintessential country music singer and songwriter, lived a life as lonesome, desolate, and filled with sorrow as his timeless songs. From Williams's dirt- poor beginnings as a sickly child to his emergence as a star of the Grand Ole Opry, Lovesick Blues is the definitive biography of the man and his music.
by Willie Nelson, David Ritz
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A perfect Christmas gift for music lovers, Pretty Paper is Willie Nelson’s inspiring Christmas fable, based on his holiday classic “Pretty Paper.”
More than fifty years ago, Willie Nelson’s beloved Christmas song “Pretty Paper” first hit the airwaves. And for all these years, Willie...
I'll Be Here in the Morning
The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
The writer of such influential songs as “Pancho and Lefty,” “To Live’s to Fly,” “If I Needed You,” and “For the Sake of the Song,” Townes Van Zandt exerted an influence on at least two generations of Texas musicians that belies his relatively brief, deeply troubled life. Indeed,...
Literary Cash
Unauthorized Writings Inspired by the Legendary Johnny Cash
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
A collection of stories, essays, and more inspired by the country music legend and his songs.
The legendary lyrics of Johnny Cash are the inspiration for this collection of creative works that put a new spin on the musical legend.
For nearly five decades, Cash captivated audiences with his unique...