"THE WHOREHOUSE BELLS WERE RINGING" AND OTHER SONGS COWBOYS SING collected & edited by Guy Logsdon A scholarly and totally uncensored collection of authentic cowboy songs, with emphasis on vulgar, bawdy, & obscene ditties. Softcover. 388 pp. ..more... - available as a special order sku: 75-34 $37.00

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A GUIDE TO THE CROOKED ROAD: VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL by Joe Wilson Book/2-CD set. The Crooked Road is a 253-mile trail in Virginia, running from the Piedmont to deep in the coalfields of Lee, Wise, Scott and Dickenson counties. Musicians from the early days of ..more... sku: 542-305 $19.95

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ACOUSTIC STORIES: PLAYING BASS WITH PETER, PAUL & MARY, JERRY GARCIA AND BILL MONROE AND EIGHTEEN OTHER UNAMPLIFIED TALES by Bill Amatneek Author Bill Amatneek has spent his life with music. He was the bass player on the first David Grisman Quintet album, a writer for Rolling Stone, banjoist with Frank Wakefield, and much more. ..more... sku: 610-1 $15.95

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AFRICAN BANJO ECHOES IN APPALACHIA: A STUDY OF FOLK TRADITIONS by Cecelia Conway A well-researched study of the influence of African-Americans on banjo playing throughout U.S. history. Includes many photographs and illustrations. Notes, bibliography and index. 394 pp. ..more... sku: 411-5 $26.00

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AMERICA'S INSTRUMENT: THE BANJO IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by Phillip Gura and James Bollman Now in it's second printing! Richly illustrated history of "America's instrument" from the gourd banjo of enslaved Africans to the minstrel banjos of the mid 1800's, and the Fairbanks, Stewart, ..more... sku: 411-7 $73.50

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BEAN BLOSSOM: THE BROWN COUNTY JAMBOREE AND BILL MONROE'S BLUEGRASS FESTIVALS by Thomas A. Adler ON SALE, REGULARLY $24.95! Bean Blossom Indiana is home to the annual Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, founded in 1967 by Bill Monroe. With roots back in 1951, it is the longest running ..more... sku: 75-51 .. list $24.95 ours $12.00

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BLUEGRASS TIME: A MUSICIAN'S PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE EARLY DAYS OF BLUEGRASS FESTIVALS by Phil Zimmerman Featuring photographs taken between 1972 and 1984, the book documents the passing of the torch from the first generation pioneers of bluegrass to their successors, as well as capturing the ..more... - out-of-stock, more coming soon sku: 714-1 $25.00

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BLUEGRASS: A HISTORY by Neil Rosenberg Exhaustive, definitive look at the makers, the songs, and the forces that shaped Bluegrass music. With detailed bibliography, discography, and footnotes. Twentieth Anniversary Edition. 447 ..more... sku: 75-26 $25.95

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BREAKFAST IN NUDIE SUITS by Ian Dunlop The story of a bunch of musical desparados fighting the business, fighting audience indifference and fighting musical prejudice as they played a new kind of country. Part Kerouac, part Tom ..more... sku: 542-358 $19.95

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BUNYAN AND BANJOES: MICHIGAN SONGS & STORIES by Kitty Donohoe & Pasqua Cekola Warstler Now available as a book/CD pack! An enchanting potpourri of folklore, songs, Indian legends, recipes, history, and other Michigan-based activities. Includes stories on how maple sugar is made; ..more... sku: 232-1CD $25.95

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CAJUN MUSIC: A REFLECTION OF A PEOPLE by Ann Allen Savoy A labor of love -- and THE history of Cajun music -- from one of the genre's leading contemporary musicians and historians. Over 100 traditional songs in Cajun French with English translations, ..more... sku: 216-1 $45.00

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CLAPTON'S GUITAR: WATCHING WAYNE HENDERSON BUILD THE PERFECT INSTRUMENT by Allen St. John A mesmerizing journey into the heart of high-end guitar-making through the quirky character of Wayne Henderson, a musician and craftsman who builds his guitars by hand, literally by putting ..more... sku: 542-141 $15.00

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COLD PIZZA FOR BREAKFAST: A MEM-WHA? by Christine Lavin A folk singer who has been in the biz for 25+ years offers a memoir of road stories and adventures across the United States, Canada and Australia, as well as tales about some of the folk-music ..more... sku: 542-286 $21.95

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COME HITHER TO GO YONDER: PLAYING BLUEGRASS WITH BILL MONROE by Bob Black Bill Monroe is so foundational to bluegrass music that the entire genre took its name from his band, the Blue Grass Boys. Black recounts his years spent as a member of that seminal band, ..more... sku: 75-54 $22.95

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ESCAPING THE DELTA: ROBERT JOHNSON AND THE INVENTION OF THE BLUES by Elijah Wald Wald presents the first thorough examination of Johnson's work and uses it as a centerpiece for a fresh look at the history of the blues. He covers the rural folk roots but focuses on its ..more... sku: 542-334 $14.99

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EXPLORING AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC - ETHNIC, GRASSROOTS, AND REGIONAL TRADITIONS IN THE UNITED STATES by Kip Lornell Covers, as a textbook, the diverse strains of American folk music - Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian, British, and Cajun - offering a chronology of the development of folk music ..more... - on order, expected arrival date 05/23/13 sku: 701-7 $30.00

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GONE TO THE COUNTRY: THE NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS AND THE FOLK MUSIC REVIVAL by Ray Allen Chronicles the life and music of the New Lost City Ramblers, a trio of city-bred musicians who helped pioneer the resurgence of southern roots music during the folk revival of the late 1950s ..more... sku: 542-307 $25.00

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GUITAR IN AMERICA: VICTORIAN ERA TO JAZZ AGE by Jeffrey J. Noonan CLEARANCE PRICED! Offers a history of the instrument from America's late Victorian period to the jazz age. The opening chapter traces the guitar's use in this country from the Colonial era up ..more... sku: 701-3 .. list $50.00 ours $25.00

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GUITAR IN AMERICA: VICTORIAN ERA TO JAZZ AGE by Jeffrey J. Noonan Offers a history of the instrument from America's late Victorian period to the jazz age. The opening chapter traces the guitar's use in this country from the Colonial era up to the 1880s. The ..more... sku: 701-5 $25.00

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HAWAIIAN MUSIC & MUSICIANS - AN ENCYCLOPEDIC HISTORY, 2nd EDITION edited by Dr. George S. Kanahele, revised and updated by John Berger Originally published in 1979, this book was immediately recognized as the most ambitious ever written about Hawaiian music. After Dr. Kanahele's death it took John Berger a dozen years to ..more... sku: 769-1 $35.00

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