Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music - Brossura

Wright, John

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ISBN 10: 025206478X ISBN 13: 9780252064784

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 1995

Riassunto

John Wright's collection of interviews and stories about Ralph Stanley puts readers around a campfire at a bluegrass festival while old-timers weave yarns far into the night. Told by those who create, produce, stage, love, and virtually live for old-time mountain music, these tales come from the longtime coworkers, sidemen, promoters, friends, and others in the orbit of the music legend. The storytellers include a scholar who knew Stanley from the early days, the housewife who ran the Stanley Brothers Fan Club, and a souvenir seller for whom the discovery of Stanley's music was almost a religious experience.

Wright also uses these invaluable oral histories as a foundation to describe and evaluate Stanley's long career with the Clinch Mountain Boys and the development of his music after the death of his brother Carter. An appendix covers Ralph's prolific recording activity through the mid-1990s, including a breathtaking forty-five albums compromising more than 550 songs and tunes.

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Informazioni sull'autore

John Wright, John Evans Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Northwestern University, is a columnist for Banjo Newsletter.
 

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 025206478X
• ISBN 13: 9780252064784
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile