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Highways and heartaches : how Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, and children of the New South saved the soul of country music / by Streissguth, Michael,author.(CARDINAL)641553;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-266) and index.Get the Music Out -- Old Southern Leanings -- Down the Road -- The Soul of Bluegrass -- Peace, Love, and Country -- New South -- Close to the Fire -- Roses in the Snow -- New Traditionalists -- Hillbilly Rock -- Who Will Sing for Me? -- Which Side Are You On?"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 while 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. Skaggs and Stuart followed their bosses to dozens of stages throughout Appalachia and deeper into the American southland. They were the children, absorbing the strange and wondrous dramas around them so they might one day bear witness to the scenes along the country music road. Highways and Heartaches takes readers on the rural circuit Skaggs and Stuart traveled, where an acoustic sound rooted in American musical tradition thrived, setting the stage for the wildly popular new traditionalist movement that defined country music in the 1980s before morphing into the Americana phenomenon that has kept country music's soul alive into present times. Through the eyes of Skaggs and Stuart, the book documents the New South which was in the throes of a glaring duality: stealing back jobs, population and cultural influence from the north while continuing to grapple with poverty, isolation and the environmental and human fallout of coal mining, particularly in Appalachia. On the road, Skaggs and Stuart witnessed labor strikes, new suburban housing tracts, aimless Vietnam veterans, creeping drug culture, politicians from a Robert Penn Warren novel, workers in North Carolina flush with cash from jobs in the state's Research Triangle. Still wrestling with the legacy of the Civil War, the region had nonetheless come into the light: courted by Richard Nixon, home to a manufacturing boom, lifting up Jimmy Carter, and exporting music and literature to the world. Nobody ever again ignored the South as current national politics and the sweeping popularity of modern country music can attest. Skaggs and Stuart were also forced to negotiate the hard truths of their performance circuit, brushing up against scheming promoters, unscrupulous record producers, backwoods prostitutes, moonshiners, and preachers warning them away from their chosen careers in music. They wrestled with the road's temptations and tolerated stuffy buses, greasy diners, and clawing fans. Such were the necessary costs of carrying the soul of country music into the 1980s. In Highways and Heartaches, the stories Skaggs and Stuart chronicle an endless Southern drama whose homespun music, undiluted characters, and gyrating socio-economic conditions echo along county roads and help define who we are as a nation. Riveting portraits of shadowy figures emerge for the first time anywhere next to scenes involving legends such as Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Ralph Stanley, Lester Flatt and Keith Whitley, the troubled bass-baritone singer who ran with Skaggs and Stuart and began his deadly descent into alcoholism in the late 1970s. Together, the known and unknown formed a rich vein of country music that ran from obscure places in the South to the glorious, tradition-fueled, commercial heights of the 1980s"--
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation.; Skaggs, Ricky.; Stuart, Marty.; New South (Musical group); Bluegrass music; Country music;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 16
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J.D. Crowe and the New South [sound recording] / by Crowe, J. D.; New South (Musical group)prf;
Old home place (2:42) -- Some old day (2:25) -- Rock salt & nails (2:58) -- Sally Goodin (3:11) -- Ten degrees (2:13) -- Nashville blues (3:23) -- You are what I am (2:17) -- Summer wages (4:21) -- I'm walkin' (2:05) -- Home sweet home revisited (3:17) -- Cryin' holy (2:11).J.D. Crowe, Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs, Bobby Slone, Jerry Douglas.Recorded at Track Recorders, Silver Spring, MD, Jan. 1975.
Subjects: Bluegrass music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Time-Life treasury of bluegrass. [sound recording]. by Skaggs, Ricky.(CARDINAL)340414; Stanley, Ralph.; Krauss, Alison,1971-(CARDINAL)354023; Crowe, J. D.; McCoury, Del,1939-; Emerson, Bill.; Waldron, Cliff.; Sparks, Larry.; Bluegrass Album Band.; Country Gentlemen (Musical group)(CARDINAL)340906; Dixie Pals (Musical group); Johnson Mountain Boys.; New South (Musical group); Seldom Scene (Musical group); Stanley Brothers.; Union Station (Musical group);
Uncle Pen (Ricky Skaggs) -- Rider (The Seldom Scene) -- Little Maggie (Ralph Stanley) -- Molly and Tenbrooks (The Bluegrass Album Band) -- Two Highways (Alison Krauss and Union Station) -- Old Home Place (J.D. Crowe and the New South) -- High on a mountain (Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals) -- Fox on the run (Bill Emerson and Cliff Waldron) -- Rank stranger (The Stanley Brothers) -- Smokey Mountain memories (Larry Sparks) -- Legend of the rebel soldier (The Country Gentlemen) -- Orange blossom special (The Johnson Mountain Boys).Various artists.Recorded 1960-1989.
Subjects: Bluegrass music.; Country music.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lamentations [sound recording] / by American Aquarium (Musical group),composer,performer.;
Performed by American Aquarium.
Subjects: Country rock music.; Alternative rock music.; Alternative country music.; Rock music.; Country music.; Rock music; Country music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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It crawled from the South : an R.E.M. companion / by Gray, Marcus.(CARDINAL)750752; Gray, Marcus.R.E.M. companion.;
Subjects: Biographies.; R.E.M. (Musical group); Rock musicians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Bluegrass today [sound recording]. by Cordle, Larry.; Crowe, J. D.; Douglas, Jerry,1956-(CARDINAL)515481; Duncan, Glen,1955-; Earle, Steve.(CARDINAL)367706; Gill, Vince.(CARDINAL)348078; Harris, Emmylou.(CARDINAL)340411; Jones, George,1931-2013.(CARDINAL)731422; Krauss, Alison,1971-(CARDINAL)354023; Loveless, Patty.; Marshall, Judy,1951-; McCoury, Del,1939-; Morris, Lynn,1948-; O'Connor, Mark.; Scruggs, Earl.(CARDINAL)339131; Scruggs, Randy.; Skaggs, Ricky.(CARDINAL)340414; Stanley, Ralph.(CARDINAL)732926; Stanley, Ralph.(CARDINAL)732926; Tyminski, Dan.; Vincent, Rhonda.(CARDINAL)345066; Cox Family (Musical group); Del McCoury Band.; Lonesome Standard Time (Musical group); Nash Ramblers (Musical group); New South (Musical group); Nickel Creek (Musical group); Time-Life Music.;
Various artists.
Subjects: Bluegrass music.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lefty's old guitar [sound recording] / by Crowe, J. D.,performer.; New South (Musical group),performer.;
J.D. Crowe & the New South (J.D. Crowe, banjo, vocals ; Dwight McCall, mandolin, vocals ; Rickey Wasson, guitar, vocals ; Ron Stewart, fiddle ; Harold Nixon, bass) ; with assisting musicians.Recorded at Hilltop Studios, Nashville, Tenn.
Subjects: Bluegrass music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Mannheim Steamroller meets the mouse [sound recording] / by Mannheim Steamroller (Musical group)(CARDINAL)348955;
Mary Poppins. Chim chim cher-ee -- Song of the South. Zip-a-dee-doo-dah -- The little mermaid. Under the sea -- The lion king. Hakuna matata -- Mary Poppins. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious -- Hercules. Go the distance -- Davy Crockett. The ballad of Davy Crockett -- Snow White and the seven dwarfs. Heigh-ho -- Toy story. You've got a friend in me -- Pinocchio. When you wish upon on a star -- Mulan. Reflection -- The Mickey Mouse Club. Mickey Mouse march.
Subjects: Motion picture music.; Motion picture music; Motion picture soundtracks.; New Age music.; Popular instrumental music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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New favorite [sound recording] / by Krauss, Alison,1971-(CARDINAL)354023; Union Station (Musical group);
Alison Krauss + Union Station ; with additional musicians.Continuing to solidify the gap between pop and bluegrass, Alison Krauss and the Union Station showcase their musical talents on this 13-track album. Features the Grammy winning song The Lucky One.
Subjects: Bluegrass music; Country music;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 12
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Memphis gospel [sound recording] : live! / by Williams, Lee,1946-performer.; Spiritual QC's (Musical group),performer.;
Performed by Lee Williams & the Spiritual QC's.
Subjects: Gospel music.; Gospel music.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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