Hard Times (1933 –1945) / PBS.

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Hard Times (1933 -1945) / PBS.

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Back in the saddle again.

Table of Contents: “…Back in the saddle again / Gene Autry (2:35) -- Wabash cannonball / Roy Acuff (2:33) -- I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart / Patsy Montana (2:33) -- Anytime / Eddy Arnold (2:52) -- If you got the money, I've got the time / Lefty Frizzell (2:56) -- Cold, cold heart / Hank Williams (2:45) -- Blue yodel no.1 (T for Texas) / Jimmie Rodgers (4:35) -- It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels / Kitty Wells (2:31) -- Tumbling tumbleweeds / Sons of the pioneers (2:49) -- San Antonio rose / Bob Wills (2:37) -- Walking the floor over you / Ernest Tubb (2:35) -- I love you so much it hurts / Jimmy Wakely (2:45) -- Smoke! …”

Making Moonshine : Country Music / Pop Twist Entertainment.

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Bill Monroe : Father of Bluegrass Music / MVD.

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Music in the Air. by Gleason, Ralph J.

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Country music originals : the legends and the lost / Tony Russell. by Russell, Tony

Table of Contents: “…Mainer -- The Dixon Brothers -- The Callahan Brothers -- Claude Casey -- Snuffy Jenkins -- Roy Acuff -- "Ramblin' Red" Lowery -- The Delmore Brothers -- Lonnie Glosson -- Grandpa Jones -- Carl Swanson -- Bridge : Western swing and honytonk -- Milton Brown -- Bob Wills -- The Light Crust Doughboys -- Adolph Hofner -- Cliff Bruner -- Hank Penny -- Bob Skyles & his Skyrockets -- The Swift Jewel Cowboys -- Johnnie Lee Wills -- Ted Daffan -- Hoyle Nix -- Rex Griffin -- Buddy Jones -- Al Dexter -- Floyd Tillman -- Ernest Tubb -- Johnny Bond -- Red River Dave McEnery -- Leo Soileau -- Harry Choates -- Molly O'Day -- Rose Maddox.…”
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The Hank Williams Reader. by Huber, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Gleason: Perspectives: Hank Williams, Roy Acuff and Then God!! (1969); 31. Roger M. Williams: Excerpt from Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams (1970); 32. …”
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American popular music : from minstrelsy to MP3 / Larry Starr, Christopher Waterman. by Starr, Larry, Waterman, Christopher Alan, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…-- Tin Pan Alley and Broadway -- Race Records -- Classic Blues -- Understanding Twelve-Bar Blues -- The Country Blues -- Blind Lemon Jefferson: The First Country Blues Star -- Robert Johnson: Standing at the Crossroad -- Early Country Music: Hillbilly Records -- Pioneers of Country Music: The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers -- Popular Music and the Great Depression -- Swing Music and American Culture -- Benny Goodman: "The King of Swing" -- Duke Ellington in the Swing Era -- Kansas City Swing: Count Basie -- Superstar of Swing: Glenn Miller -- Jazz Singers: The Boswell Sisters, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald -- Vocal Harmony Groups -- Country Music in the Swing Era: Roy Acuff, Singing Cowboys, and Western Swing -- Latin Music in the Swing Era -- ASCAP, the AFM, and the Decline of the Big Bands -- Timeline: 1946-1979 -- Popular Music and Technology in the Postwar Era -- The Rise of the Star Singers -- Urban Folk Music: The Weavers -…”

The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. Bill C. Malone, volume editor ; Charles Reagan Wilson, general editor ; James G. Thomas Jr., managing editor ; Ann J. Abadie, associate editor.

Table of Contents: “…Black music -- Bluegrass -- Blues -- Cajun music -- Classical music and opera -- Country music -- Black dance -- Development of dance -- Folk music festivals -- Black gospel music -- White gospel music -- Hip-hop and rap -- Honky-tonk music -- Jazz -- Minstrelsy -- Música Tejana -- Music industry -- Protest music -- R & B -- Radio -- Ragtime -- Rockabilly -- Rock and roll -- Sacred harp -- Soul music -- Southern rock -- Spirituals -- Square dancing and clogging -- Western swing -- Zydeco -- Accordion -- Roy Acuff -- Alvin Ailey -- All-day singing -- Mose Allison -- Allman Brothers Band -- Louis Armstrong -- Arrested Development -- Austin City Limits -- Gene Autry -- DeFord Bailey -- Etta Baker -- Dewey Balfa -- Banjo -- Beach music -- Beale Street -- Sidney Bechet -- Blackwood Brothers -- Bobby "Blue" Bland -- Blues-singing women -- Buddy Golden -- Garth Brooks -- James Brown -- Albert Brumley -- Jimmy Buffet -- Chester Arthur (Howlin' Wolf) Burnett -- R.L. …”
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