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Lost Highway

by Peter Guralnick

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Profiles from the crossroads of country, rockabilly, and blues

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Profiles from the crossroads of country, rockabilly, and blues

Peter Guralnick brings together interview-based portraits of musicians whose work helped shape American roots music. The book ranges across country, rockabilly, and blues through figures including Ernest Tubb, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. Its emphasis falls on the performers’ working lives: the commitment to making music, the demands of touring, and the drive that sustained them on the road. More than a single-artist biography or a broad chronology, Lost Highway uses individual encounters to trace connections among several foundational American music traditions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans of country, rockabilly, and blues history
  • Readers interested in musician profiles built from interviews
  • Those exploring the artists behind American roots music

Themes

American roots musicMusicians’ livesTouringCountry musicRockabilly and blues

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Book overview

Winner of ​Ishmael Reed's Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award

This masterful explorationof American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. In incisive portraits based on searching interviews with these legendary performers, Peter Guralnick captures the boundless passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes almost desperately, on the road.
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