An authoritative guide to the top 750 country albums, The Best of Country Music evokes like never before the rowdy good spirits, the hard truths, and the high lonesome cries of the country music sound. As he traces its roots and branches in string bands, bluegrass, western swing, singing cowboys, rockabilly, honky-tonk, the Nashville sound, and the modern-day "outlaw", Morthland shows how country music shaped America, and how America shaped it.
An authoritative guide to the top 750 country albums, The Best of Country Music evokes like never before the rowdy good spirits, the hard truths, and the high lonesome cries of the country music sound. As he traces its roots and branches in string bands, bluegrass, western swing, singing cowboys, rockabilly, honky-tonk, the Nashville sound, and the modern-day "outlaw", Morthland shows how country music shaped America, and how America shaped it.