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If you can not tell from my reviews, I like history and country music. So much so that I actually teach American history as an adjunct instructor at Tulane University. While I am interested in a wide range of history (I teach Louisiana, military, and American history), I write on the history of Country Music and the people who produce it and are its primary audience--the Southern common folk. … Read moreIf you can not tell from my reviews, I like history and country music. So much so that I actually teach American history as an adjunct instructor at Tulane University. While I am interested in a wide range of history (I teach Louisiana, military, and American history), I write on the history of Country Music and the people who produce it and are its primary audience--the Southern common folk. Yeah, I study them academically, but I am one of them as well. Honestly, I have more in common with Lynyrd Skynyrd's Simple Man than most of the academics I hang around with. I am writing a biography of Gov. Jimmie Davis (there's a lot of politicians today who could learn alot from him). I am also putting together a volume of my essays on Country music and am collaborating on a volume on Cajun music.
I grew up in Southwest Louisiana and was blessed by God with the triple nature of being Southern, Cajun, and American. Explaining that is sorta like discussing the Trinity. Sometimes you just know things and can never fully explain them.
I read just about anything and listen to just about everything as well--but you can't beat hillbilly, cajun, blues, jazz, gospel, and rockabilly. I take this stuff serious.
I like real people with real ideas who state them simply. I don't review things I don't like because, well, life is too short to be negative. And like A. P. Carter sang 'Keep on the Sunny Side of Life.'
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Lee views the life of World War I hero Alvin York through the lens of a changing society. York represented, according to Lee, the values of 19th century rural American-simplicity, honesty, hard work, Protestantism, and Anglo-American heritage-in an industrializing society. His defeat of German machine gunners came to symbolize "man over machine" as well. York moved from a pacifist, noninterventionist position to accept America's role as a major world power. This acceptance was based on a religious vision of the US as a defender against evil in the world. Lee's book is well written, moves fast, and well argued. He succeeds in demonstrating that an indivdual life can be used… Read more
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One of the best benefits of the CD revolution is that so many recordings "lost" since the 78 era are now reappearing. As a result, music lovers are discovering great singers and players who somehow slipped through the LP reissue cracks. Marc Williams is one of these lost pioneers. During the late 1920s and early 1930s Williams recorded fine versions of many standard cowboy songs and then disappeared. This CD brings together what has to be the bulk of his recordings and liner notes containing the most information available on him. Williams was a Texan, probably had some real experience as a cowboy, and eventually moved to the midwest where he worked as an entertainer and later… Read more
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Considering his importance in the history of Country Music it is rather surprising that this is the first significant box set dedicated to Roy Acuff. These are original recordings (1930s-1950) of his hits including "Wabash Cannonball," "Precious Jewel," and "Great Speckled Bird." Also included are some hot string band recordings, which might surprise fans who only remember the older Acuff singing ballads. Acuff's band included some excellent players instrumental in moving Country music from an old time sound (like Charlie Poole) to the style now considered "classic." Other listeners will be surprised by the inclusion of one cut from the "Bang… Read more
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