Country category: 255 books

A collection, for fiddle, of over 200 great bluegrass, old time, country and gospel standards played by jammers and performers all over the world! Melodies are presented with standard notation, lyrics and chords. Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American...

A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords. Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers,...

Can you feel nostalgic for a life you've never known? Suffused with her much-loved warmth and wit, Emma John's memoir follows her moving and memorable journey to master one of the hardest musical styles on earth - and to find her place in an alien world. Emma had fallen out of love with...

Willie NelsonThe Inspirational Life Story of Willie Nelson;Song Writer, Musician, Social Activist, and Teacher of Never Giving Up on Ones DreamsBy Patrick BunkerMany people have no idea how hard life was at times for Willie Nelson. As a poor farm boy growing up in rural Texas...

Alan Munde is one of the finest players to ever pick up the five string banjo. From his early days with Jimmy Martin through his tenure with Country Gazette, Alan has continually expanded the breadth of his vision. Drawn from a series of recordings released on Slim Richey's Ridge Runner label in the...

A memoir by the Grammy–winning artist who’s played everywhere from Poland to Carnegie Hall, delighting fans with his spin on this beloved folk music. Vocalist, trumpeter, clarinetist, and saxophonist Jimmy Sturr has won a remarkable eighteen Grammy Awards and brought happiness to many with...

From The Beatles' patronage of his 1968 debut album to his Grammy awards for Hourglass James Taylor has remained a universally acclaimed songwriter of effortless eloquence and power. In this major biography the late Timothy White explores the myths and reality behind the personal journey of legendary...

Die Geschichte des Schlagerduos Fantasy alias Martin und Freddy klingt wie ein modernes Märchen - und sie ist es auch. Beide waren bettelarm, verfolgten aber ihren Traum: Sie wollten berühmt werden. Wer weiß, was aus den beiden geworden wäre, hätte nicht Schlagerstar Andrea Berg die sympathischen...

The only performer to earn 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Gene Autry was the singing cowboy king of American entertainment. Now, in Public Cowboy No.1, Holly George-Warren offers the first serious biography of this singular individual, in a fascinating narrative that traces Autry's climb from...

The Glen Campbell story is one of exceptional musical talent, a glittering career and a frequently disturbed personal life. In August, 2017, after battling Alzheimer’s disease, his death was announced to the world. This celebratory Omnibus enhanced edition of Burning Bridges: Life With My...

Featuring interviews with everyone from childhood friends to band members, producers and engineers, this is a portrait of the real man, who grew up in Indiana and still lives there today a passionate musician and a tireless campaigner for the lifestyle and values of the American family farmer. This...

Lee wrote this song in 1974 in Madison, WI. It begins with a spoken Introduction followed by four verses in which the vocalist, a pianist, dreams of playing songs and singing with Hank Williams and Elvis Presley in heaven and details the two star's inspirational words during the dream. Hank performs...

As charismatic and gifted as he was volatile, Jimmy Martin recorded dozens of bluegrass classics and co-invented the high lonesome sound. Barbara Martin Stephens became involved with the King of Bluegrass at age seventeen. Don't Give your Heart to a Rambler tells the story of their often tumultuous...

In 1973, Rosanne Cash's father gave her a list of 100 songs that he felt a young musician had to know. Always Been There tells the inside story of the album that, more than thirty-five years later, resulted from that list. Based on original interviews conducted in the studio, on tour, and at home,...