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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Poor Mary of the Wild Moor
Author: Mary of the Wild Moor
Author: Mary of the Wild Moor!.
Author: Mary of the Wild Moor
Author: Joseph W. TurnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Mary of the wild moor
Author: J. W. TurnerMary of the Wild Moor!
Author: John H. JohnsonMary of the Wild Moor: a Beautiful Ballad
Author: Joseph W. TurnerPublisher:
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Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia
Author: William Roy MackenziePublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
American Ballads and Songs
Author: Louise PoundThe Blue Sky Boys
Author: Dick SpottswoodPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496816447
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
During the 1940s, country music was rapidly evolving from traditional songs and string band styles to honky-tonk, western swing, and bluegrass, via radio, records, and film. The Blue Sky Boys, brothers Bill (1917-2008) and Earl (1919-1998) Bolick, resisted the trend, preferring to perform folk and parlor songs, southern hymns, and new compositions that enhanced their trademark intimacy and warmth. They were still in their teens when they became professional musicians to avoid laboring in Depression-era North Carolina cotton mills. Their instantly recognizable style was fully formed by 1936, when even their first records captured soulful harmonies accented with spare guitar and mandolin accompaniments. They inspired imitators, but none could duplicate the Blue Sky Boys' emotional appeal or their distinctive Catawba County accents. Even their last records in the 1970s retained their unique magical sound decades after other country brother duets had come and gone. In this absorbing account, Dick Spottswood combines excerpts from Bill Bolick's numerous spoken interviews and written accounts of his music, life, and career into a single narrative that presents much of the story in Bill's own voice. Spottswood reveals fascinating nuggets about broadcasting, recording, and surviving in the 1930s world of country music. He describes how the growing industry both aided and thwarted the Bolick brothers' career, and how World War II nearly finished it. The book features a complete, extensively annotated list of Blue Sky Boys songs, an updated discography that includes surviving unpublished records, and dozens of vintage photos and sheet music covers.