Country : the twisted roots of rock 'n' roll /
Nick Tosches.
- 1st Da Capo Press ed.
- New York : Da Capo Press, 1996.
- xiv, 290 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Originally published, Rev. ed. New York , C. Scribner's Sons, 1985, c1984. Includes index.
The author shows how rock and roll roots can be traced even as far back to 1607 when an Englishman named Laydon arrived in America with his fiddle. Other influences such as blackface minstrels, yodelling cowboys, honky-tonk and rockabilly, are also discussed, with all the scandalous details of the musicians, who include Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis.
0306807130 :
Country music--History and criticism. Rock 'n roll--History.