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Desolation Rowboat

…Blood Meridian. A great book, beautifully written — and savagely so. But you can have it, for this exercise of identifying McCarthy’s masterwork. You can have that and The Border…

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

…they were known on The Andy Griffith Show). And we catch up with “a hotshot young mandolinist named Chris Hillman,” dubbed “the linchpin” of country-rock. You may know him best…

Meeting the Blues

…But that’s why the book works so well. That’s why its publication is so welcome, all these years later. Going Up the Country isn’t a study of the blues —…

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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