Lost Highway: Journeys & Arrivals of American Musicians
- ISBN-10
- 0879232935
- ISBN-13
- 9780879232931
- Series
- Lost Highway
- Pages
- 362
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Publisher
- D. R. Godine
- Author
- Peter Guralnick
Description
This book tells the story of a special group of American artists: the musicians who create and perform country blues music and those who mixed the two to create the explosive sound called rockabilly, which was virtually defined by Elvis Presley and Sun Records in the mid-fifties. These were the styles that transformed American popular music and transfigured its audience. Through biographical sketches, first-person narratives by the musicians, and a striking gallery of photographs, the author has woven twenty-two extraordinary individual portraits of artists both celebrated and little known.
