Desperados: The Roots of Country RockRowman & Littlefield, 2001 - 287 էջ As told by the musicians who made it happen, Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock revisits country rock's rise to the top of the charts. Music scholar John Einarson delves into the years from 1963, when Buck Owens and his Buckaroos brought an electric edge to their Texas honky-tonk tunes, to 1973, when The Eagles released their album "Desperado" on David Geffen's label. Einarson examines how folk, rockabilly, blues, Nashville country, Tejano, bluegrass, and other musical idioms influenced a generation of journeyman musicians. He traces the paths taken by the songsmiths, the bands in which they served their apprenticeships, and the songs they wrote together, as they steadily shaped the country rock sound. The protagonists of this story include talented but troubled Gram Parsons, a virtuoso determined to burn out before he faded away; the versatile and appealing Linda Ronstadt; Mike Nesmith, the Monkee from Texas who returned to his musical roots with a trilogy of country-rock albums; TV heartthrob turned country rocker Rick Nelson; folkie songbird Emmylou Harris before she made it in Nashville; and many others. |
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1 Sing Me Back Home | 1 |
19631966 | 21 |
19661967 | 49 |
1968 | 81 |
1968 | 111 |
1969 | 137 |
1970 | 169 |
1971 | 197 |
1972 | 223 |
1973 | 241 |
11 Return of the Grievous Angel | 269 |
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Acknowledgments | 283 |
About the Author | 287 |
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