BIBLIOGRAPHY.
I would happily recommend most of the books below. Having said that, there are several I could not manage without. They are, all of the Rough Guides, David Goodman's excellent alt. country encyclopaedia 'Modern Twang', 'American Roots Music', 'Country' by Nick Tosches really captures 'that old weird America', 'Country Roads', 'Texas Music', 'Desperado's: The roots of Country Rock' & 'Are you Ready for the Country'. Most, if not all are available from amazon.co.uk or amazon.com
For the unitiated if you click on any of the blue links they will take you direct to the site.
ROUGH GUIDES SERIES TO: Bob Dylan, Music USA, Country Music, Country's 100 Essential C.D's.
Guiness Who's Who of Country Music.
Music Hound: Country: The Essentail Guide.
American Troubadours - Mark Brend.
Modern Twang - David Goodman.
Lone Star Swing - Duncan McLean.
Neil Young - Sylvie Simmons.
Texas Music - Rick Coster.
Gram Parsons: God's Own Singer - Jason Walker.
Country Roads - Brian Hinton.
Walkin' After Midnight - Lauren St. John.
Country - Nick Tosches.
American Roots Music.
The Story of Country Music - Colin Escott.
Rip it up: Rock & Roll Rulebreakers - Denise Sullivan.
Hardcore Troubadour - Lauren St. John.
Hickory Wind - Ben Fong Torres.
Who's Who in New Country Music - Andrew Vaughan.
Desperado's: The Roots of Country Rock - John Einarson.
Are you ready for the Country - Peter Doggett.
This Wheel's on Fire - Levon Helm with Stephen Davis.
Last Train to Memphis - Peter Guralnick.
The Long Run: The Story of the Eagles - Marc Shapiro.
Hickory Wind: The Life & Times of Gram Parsons - Ben Fong Torres.
Lost Highway - Peter Guralnick.
Feel like going Home - peter Guralnick.
The Byrds: Timeless Flight - Johnny Rogan.
Across the Great Divide - Barney Hoskins.
Rolling Sone Encyclopaedis of Rock & Roll.
Good Rockin' Tonight - Colin Escott with martyn Hawkins.
Invisible Republic - Greil marcus.
Mystery Train - Greil marcus.
In the Country of Country - Nicholas Dawidoff
South by Southwest - Brian Hinton.
For What it's Worth - John Einarson & Richie Furay.
Woody Guthrie: A Life - Joe Klein.
No Direction Home: The Life & Music of Bob Dylan - Robert Shelton.
Chronicles - Bob Dylan.
The above is not a comprehensive list of my book collection but is just a guide which should give anyone new to the genre a good grounding. I will update the list as I see fit.
MAGAZINES
Uncut. uncut.net
Mojo. mojo4music.com
No Depression. nodepression.net
Folk Roots
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