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Americanaland

by John Milward
Margie Greve
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A musical genre forever outside the lines

With a claim on artists from Jimmie Rodgers to Jason Isbell, Americana can be hard to define, but you know it when you hear it. John Milward's Americanaland is filled with the enduring performers and vivid stories that are at the heart of Americana. At base a hybrid of rock and country, Americana is also infused with folk, blues, R&B, bluegrass, and other types of roots music. Performers like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, and Gram Parsons used these ingredients to create influential music that took well-established genres down exciting new roads. The name Americana was coined in the 1990s to describe similarly inclined artists like Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, and Wilco. Today, Brandi Carlile and I'm With Her are among the musicians carrying the genre into the twenty-first century.

Essential and engaging, Americanaland chronicles the evolution and resonance of this ever-changing amalgam of American music. Margie Greve's hand-embroidered color portraits offer a portfolio of the pioneers and contemporary practitioners of Americana.| Cover Title Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Americanaland Chapter 1. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? Chapter 2. The Lost Highway Chapter 3. Sunrise Chapter 4. Blowin' in the Wind Chapter 5. Turn! Turn! Turn! Chapter 6. White Line Fever Chapter 7. Something in the Air Chapter 8. Sweetheart of the Rodeo Chapter 9. American Tune Chapter 10. Troubadours Chapter 11. Grievous Angels Chapter 12. The Red-Headed Icon Chapter 13. Punks, God, and Urbane Cowboys Chapter 14. Hard-Core Troubadours Chapter 15. The "Birth" of Americana Chapter 16. Across the Great Divide Chapter 17. Yesterday and Today Last Call Notes Bibliography Index Back cover |"A fascinating, detailed history of Americana music. " —Choice
"Milward has channeled the fascinating Americana story into 320 flowing and informative pages. Not content to simply recapitulate names, dates and deeds, he frequently provides valuable context and perspectives to the saga." —Bluegrass Unlimited
"John Milward has crafted a masterpiece." —Americana Rhythm Music Magazine
|John Milward has written about popular music for more than forty years; he was the chief pop music critic for the Chicago Daily News and USA Today and has written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and No Depression. He is the author of Crossroads: How the Blues Shaped Rock 'n' Roll (and Rock Saved the Blues). Margie Greve's work has appeared in Rolling Stone and the New Yorker and has been shown in galleries in New York City and the Hudson Valley.

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