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 CountryThe Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Rollby Nick Tosches Aug 21, 1996
DescriptionCelebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely and superbly illustrated, Country stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written. Reviews"Country gives one a sense of unity that no other book on country music—or any American music—has ever quite achieved. . . . Tosches has produced a superbly detailed assault on everything country music honors as most holy, and a loving scabrous portrait of those things in country music that are kept quiet, or ignored—in other words, on what is most holy." "Tales of drug abuse, murder, racism, and brawling, nearly all of them too good or too obscene to repeat here, suffuse Country, and the numbing fumes of alcohol rise from every page. . . . Country reads like a great detective novel." "Almost any page you look at leaves you stunned. Crazy-brilliant." "An absolute steamroller of a book (with some of the juiciest, grittiest passages ever found in any C&W study).… Country goes for the jugular of what the music is really about." "A writer with wit . . . and a lusty feel for American music that comes from the gut, Tosches fights the phony and the synthetic the way a fist fights the hook." Selling TerritoryWorld |
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