The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built/He Stopped Loving Her Today: George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest country Record of All Time.

摘要

The book's framework is the chronological recounting ofthe story of city-bred boys whonchampioned old-time music recorded in the 1920s sind 1930s. We learn how John Cohen,nMike Seeger, and Tom Paley, later replaced by Tracy Schwarz, evolved into the New LostnCity Ramblers, and grew as musicians, educators, preservationists, and promoters of traditionalnperformers. At the heart ofthe narrative is AUen's treatment ofthe thorny issues ofnauthenticity, tradition, and the ambiguous term "folk revival." Throughout the book, AUennis careful to give the larger social context for the popularity and influence of the group. Fornscholars of recorded music, AUen's recounting of how the Ramblers chose their album covers,ntheir repertory, and defined their musical style is particularly interesting. The New LostnCity Ramblers were first and foremost about making music, and the ideal accompanimentsnto this book are the 2009 Smithsonian Folkways compüation CDs ofthe New Lost City Ramblers:n50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go? (SFW CD 30180) and Arhoo-nUe's hour-long DVD, Always Been a Rambler, also released in 2009.