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The improbable rise of redneck rock
- Title
- The improbable rise of redneck rock / Jan Reid ; photographs by Scott Newton.
- Author
- Reid, Jan
- Publication
- Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2021]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Newton, Scott, 1949-
- Description
- xi, 220 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
- Summary
- "First published in 1974, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock grew out of a magazine article coauthored by Jan Reid. His first book was a sensation in Texas. It portrayed an Austin-based live music explosion variously described as progressive country, cosmic cowboys, and outlaw country. The book has been hailed as a model of how to write about popular music and the life of performing musicians. Written in nine months, Reid's account focuses on predecessors of the 1960s and the swarm of newborn venues, the most enduring one the justly famed Armadillo World Headquarters; profiles of singer-songwriters that included Jerry Jeff Walker, Michael Martin Murphey, Steven Fromholz, B.W. Stevenson, Willis Alan Ramsey, Bobby Bridger, Rusty Wier, Kinky Friedman, and the one who became an international star and one of America's most treasured performers, Willie Nelson; and the rowdy heat-stricken debut of Willie's Fourth of July Picnics." --Amazon.com.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Contents
- Prologue -- The Gay Place -- A Yodeler and The Queen -- Looking For a Home -- Something To Do With Age -- Austin Mañana -- Beer, Cocaine and . . . -- Just a Waltz -- The Voice -- The Boy From Alabama -- The Golden Fleece -- The Ballad of Evelyn Goose and Donna Dumbass -- The Quota on Singing Texas Jews -- Irish Texas -- Willie The Lion -- The Day of The Locust -- Outlaw Country -- Good Day For The Blues -- Pendulum -- Legacies.
- Call Number
- JNF 21-247
- ISBN
- 9780875657769
- 0875657761
- LCCN
- 2021012027
- 40030675903
- OCLC
- 1242018178
- Author
- Reid, Jan, author.
- Title
- The improbable rise of redneck rock / Jan Reid ; photographs by Scott Newton.
- Publisher
- Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2021]
- Edition
- Commemorative edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Newton, Scott, 1949- photographer.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030675903
- Research Call Number
- JNF 21-247