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Title

From every stage : images of America's roots music / Stephanie P. Ledgin ; with a foreword by Charles Osgood.

Author

Ledgin, Stephanie P.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

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Details

Description

xiii, 146 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 x 29 cm

Summary

"Bluegrass, folk, blues, Cajun, Celtic, and country music - these traditional genres have fostered a popular explosion of music and dance festivals throughout the United States. From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music is a photo narrative, capturing the emotion, excitement, and energy of performances by greats and up-and-comers in the broad spectrum of roots-derived music in America." "Stephanie P. Ledgin brings thirty years of writing and photojournalism to this lavishly illustrated book. Two hundred color and black-and-white photographs depict singers, instrumentalists, and dancers in action and in unguarded, spontaneous backstage moments." "Folk icons Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, and Odetta grace the stage. The many shades of bluegrass show in photos of Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, David Grisman, Ricky Skaggs, and Bela Fleck. Scottish fiddle wizard Johnny Cunningham, fiery Irish fiddler Eileen Ivers, Piedmont blues guitarist John Jackson, and zydeco's Queen Ida join such legendary artists as John Hartford, Doc Watson, and Jean Ritchie. Country greats Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart, Wynonna Judd, Roy Clark, and comedienne Minnie Pearl perform at prestigious venues. Finally, several interviews with pivotal personalities, all published here for the first time, lend voice and character to this trove of images."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Musicians > United States > Interviews
• Bluegrass musicians > Pictorial works
• Bluegrass music > Pictorial works
• Popular music > United States > Pictorial works

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Foreword / Charles Osgood -- In the beginning ... -- Bill Monroe : "I love to be on the road" -- And when in Nashville ... the world-famous Station Inn -- Jens Kruger catches the "feel" -- Beausoleil Avec Michael Doucet : mash-down music -- Roy M. Huskey in his own words -- John Hartford on Huskey : hearing in colors -- Johnson Mountain Boys : not at the old schoolhouse -- Marty Stuart on Lester Flatt -- The bottom line was tops -- Jimmie Skinner, gentleman songwriter -- Vassar Clements fiddles hillbilly jazz -- Doc Watson : "applause is like an amplified friendly handshake" -- "Taste the traditional" with the bluegrass band.

ISBN

• 1578067405 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781578067404 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2004023689
• 99820092901

OCLC

• 56686321
• ocm56686321\
• SCSB-5399072

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries