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Texas Country Singers (Texas Small Books)
Fry, Phil, Lee, Jim
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Description for Texas Country Singers (Texas Small Books)
Hardcover. Contains brief biographies of twenty-seven Texas singers. This book includes names such as Vernon Dalhart, the earliest Texas country singer to make a national name, and Moon Mullican, a singer/pianist who influenced Jerry Lee Lewis and other piano playing singers. Num Pages: 96 pages, 16 b&w illustrations, bib., index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; AVGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 114 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
Texas Country Singers contains brief biographies of twenty-seven Texas singers. The artists chosen are traditional country singers like Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Thompson, Willie Nelson, and Ray Price. The authors have not included rockabilly artists, modern country-pop singers, singers of local or regional reputation, or singers of purely western songs. The twenty-seven singers are Texas born, admittedly an artificial discrimination, but one made necessary by the size of these small books.The authors include some almost forgotten names like Vernon Dalhart, the earliest Texas country singer to make a national name, and Moon Mullican, a singer/pianist who influenced Jerry Lee ... Read more
Texas Country Singers contains brief biographies of twenty-seven Texas singers. The artists chosen are traditional country singers like Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Thompson, Willie Nelson, and Ray Price. The authors have not included rockabilly artists, modern country-pop singers, singers of local or regional reputation, or singers of purely western songs. The twenty-seven singers are Texas born, admittedly an artificial discrimination, but one made necessary by the size of these small books.The authors include some almost forgotten names like Vernon Dalhart, the earliest Texas country singer to make a national name, and Moon Mullican, a singer/pianist who influenced Jerry Lee ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875653655
SKU
V9780875653655
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99-99
About Fry, Phil, Lee, Jim
PHIL FRY, a native of Hugo, Oklahoma, has lived in Austin, Texas, for forty years, where he heard all the great country singers. He is an independent scholar with a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas, where he worked on both The Handbook of Texas and the Handbook of Texas Music. JIM LEE has lived in Texas for ... Read more
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