It’s the Country Music Best List
In our pursuit of specality best books lists, we discovered Country Music TV’s Web site has picked it’s favorites of 2007. Perhaps demonstrating how far country has come, three of the titles are from university presses.
Two are from the University of Illinois Press’s “Music in American Life” series:
Havighurst, Craig. Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City, University of Illinois Press (Sept. 27, 2007), Hdbk, $29.95.
ISBN-10: 0252032578
ISBN-13: 978-0252032578
Diekman, Diane. Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story, University of Illinois Press, (Aug 13, 2007), Hdbk, $29.95
ISBN-10: 0252032489
ISBN-13: 978-0252032486
And, from Oxford University Press:
Russell, Tony, Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost, Oxford University Press, Hdbk, (Oct. 9, 2007), $29.95
ISBN13: 9780195325096
ISBN10: 0195325095
The article notes that “Book choices are relatively sparse this holiday season for those who like country music only” and the other seven choices are well-represented in libraries.
