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I’d Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music by Peter La Chape

American political campaigns without music or shows would be an impossibility today. Speaking about the 20th century, neither marching band tunes, nor folk songs or hymns were the musical style employed most by political representatives running for office, but country music, as author La Chapelle proves. He finds many more details of this particular relationship […]

Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll by Peter Guralnick (2015)

When one of the best music writers around publishes a book on one of the most important producers/talent-scouts/music explorers ever, the result should be nothing but brilliant. And it actually is. Peter Guralnick must not be introduced, he wrote many excellent books on American music and its respective history, rooted and connected to the American […]