IN THE COUNTRY OF COUNTRY / A JOURNEY TO THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.In his critically acclaimed book, In the Country of Country, Nicholas Dawidoff travels to the origins of countr y music and talks to the musicians who created this original American art form. Here, amongst others, are indelible portraits of Joh nny Cash, behind whose black apparel lies a Faustian dilemma/ Merle Haggard, a man as elusive as he is gifted/ and Patsy Cline, a lo nely figu...[Read more]