Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost

In this sparkling collection, "roots" music authority Tony Russell offers vivid portraits of the men and women who created country music, the artists whose lives and songs formed the rich tradition from which Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, The Dixie Chicks, and so many others have drawn their inspiration.

Included here are not only such major figures as Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, Fiddlin' John Carson, Charlie Poole, and Gene Autry, who put country music on America's cultural map in the 1920s and '30s, but many fascinating lesser-known figures as well, such as Carson Robison, Otto Gray, Chris Bouchillon, Emry Arthur and dozens more, many of whose stories are told here for the first time. To map some of the winding, untraveled roads that connect today's music to its ancestors, Russell draws upon new research and rare source material, such as contemporary newspaper reports and magazine articles, internet genealogy sites, and his own interviews with the musicians or their families. The result is a lively mix of colorful tales and anecdotes, priceless contemporary accounts of performances, illuminating social and historical context, and well-grounded critical judgment. The essays are enhanced by more than 200 illustrations, many of them seldom seen and some never before published, including artist photographs, record labels, song sheets, newspaper clippings, cartoons, advertisements, and magazine covers, recreating the look and feel of the entire culture of country music. Each essay includes as well a playlist of recommended and currently available recordings for each artist.

Country Music Originals is a collection of gems which will delight the aficionado and first-time enthusiast as well as the scholar of American folk music.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes on Playlists
1. Eck Robertson
2. Fiddlin' John Carson
3. Henry Whitter
4. Ernest V. Stoneman
5. Uncle Dave Macon
6. Vernon Dalhart
7. Fiddlin' Powers
8. Charlie Poole
9. Kelly Harrell
10. DaCosta Woltz
11. Uncle Jimmy Thompson
12. Dr Humphrey Bate
13. Sam McGee
14. Gid Tanner
15. Riley Puckett
16. Clayton McMichen
17. Lowe Stokes
18. Earl Johnson
19. John Dilleshaw
20. Georgia Yellow Hammers
21. South Georgia Highballers
22. Cofer Brothers
23. Dock Boggs
24. Frank Hutchison
25. Darby & Tarlton
26. The Carter Family
27. Jimmie Rodgers
28. Bridge: The Great Divide
29. Allen Brothers
30. Fleming & Townsend
31. Chris Bouchillon
32. Ed Haley
33. Clark Kessinger
34. Blind Alfred Reed
35. Roy Harvey
36. Walter Smith
37. Asa Martin
38. Dick Burnett
39. John D. Foster
40. Emry Arthur
41. Alfred G. Karnes
42. Buell Kazee
43. Raymond Render
44. G. B. Grayson
45. Clarence Ashley
46. Carolina Tar Heels
47. Carolina Twins
48. Red Fox Chasers
49. Bascom Lamar Lunsford
50. Leake County Revelers
51. Narmour & Smith
52. Hoyt Ming
53. Dr Smith's Champion Hoss Hair Pullers
54. Fiddlin' Bob Larkan
55. Golden Melody Boys
56. Walter Coon
57. Jules V. Allen
58. Powder River Jack Lee
59. Cartwright Brothers
60. Harry "Mac" McClintock
61. Goebel Reeves
62. John I. White
63. Bernard "Slim" Smith
64. Carson Robison
65. Frank Luther
66. Otto Gray & His Oklahoma Cowboys
67. Bridge: Country Music In Transition
68. Gene Autry
69. Jimmie Davis
70. Cliff Carlisle
71. Bill Cox
72. Mac & Bob
73. Bradley Kincaid
74. The Girls of the Golden West
75. Wilf Carter
76. Hank Snow
77. Bridge: The Radio Years
78. Lulu Belle & Scotty
79. Patsy Montana
80. Lily May Ledford
81. J. E. Mainer
82. Dixon Brothers
83. Callahan Brothers
84. Claude Casey
85. Snuffy Jenkins
86. Roy Acuff
87. "Ramblin' Red" Lowery
88. Delmore Brothers
89. Lonnie Glosson
90. Grandpa Jones
91. Carl Swanson
92. Bridge: Western Swing & Honkytonk
93. Milton Brown
94. Bob Wills
95. Light Crust Doughboys
96. Adolph Hofner
97. Cliff Bruner
98. Hank Penny
99. Bob Skyles
100. Swift Jewel Cowboys
101. Johnnie Lee Wills
102. Ted Daffan
103.
104. Rex Griffin
105. Buddy Jones
106. Al Dexter
107. Floyd Tillman
108. Ernest Tubb
109. Johnny Bond
110. Red River Dave McEnery
111. Leo Soileau
112. Harry Choates
113. Molly O'Day
114. Rose Maddox
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