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.
- ISBN10 0316332747
- ISBN13 9780316332743
- Publish Date 1 July 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Little, Brown and Company
- Format Paperback
- Pages 376
- Language English