Walking the line : country music lyricists and American culture / edited by Thomas Alan Holmes and Roxanne Harde.

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2013.
Added to CLICnet on 01/04/2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Walking the line : the Dixie Chicks and the making of country lyricists / Thomas Alan Holmes and Roxanne Harde — Nobody Knows but Me : Jimmie Rodgers and the body politic / Taylor Hagood — Cindy Walker, Lyle Lovett, and the West / Thomas Alan Holmes — Help your brother along the road : Hank Williams and the humane tradition / Steve Goodson — JC : Johnny Cash and faith / Thomas Alan Holmes — Religious doctrine in the mid-1970s to 1980s country music concept albums of Willie Nelson / Blase S. Scarnati — Grace to catch a falling soul : country, gospel, and evangelical populism in the music of Dottie Rambo / Douglas Harrison — Loretta Lynn, Appalachian storyteller and autobiographer / Laura Grace Pattillo — Branded man : Merle Haggard’s romance of the outlier / Thomas Alan Holmes — Townes Van Zandt : Now here’s what this story’s told / Pete Falconer and James Zborowski — Wildness, eschatology, and enclosure in the songs of Townes Van Zandt / Michael B. MacDonald — Where it counts I’m real : the complexities of Dolly Parton’s feminist voice / Samantha Christensen — Sin City : Gram Parsons and the Christ-haunted South / Clay Motley — Weeping willows and long black veils : the country roots of Roseanne Cash, from Scotland to Tennessee / June Skinner Sawyers — They draft the white trash first ’round here anyway : Steve Earle’s American boys / Roxanne Harde.

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Requested by Koehler, B. & Kagan, R.

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