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Desolation Rowboat

…Trilogy and all the pretty horses they rode in on. You can have The Road and its post-apocalyptic hellscape — early 1950s Knoxville was as scary and more compelling. I…

Poet for the People

There were many John Prines. We were lucky that way. There was Prine the young folkie and “New Dylan,” but with songs even Bob couldn’t write: “Angel from Montgomery,” “Hello…

L.A. Roots

…country-rock,” as the book’s lead essayist, longtime L.A. music journalist Randy Lewis, puts it. Maybe it’s something by Dwight Yoakam or the Blasters, from country-rock’s second (and highly revved) wave…

Meeting the Blues

…there are any number of those already on the shelves. This is a study of life, real life, in a pivotal place and a crucial time, with two bright and…

Out of the Shadows of History

…You know the history. Now immerse yourself in her story. Traces centers on Rebecca Boone, Daniel’s wife of 56 years, and their oldest daughters, Susannah and Jemima. It’s a story…

Man of Steel

Early in Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon, Steve Fishell’s deft and lively biography, we meet the future legend as a skinny, high school-hating, 14-year-old boy on his bike, hanging around…

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