The Blue Sky Boys
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 harmo…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4968-1642-9
- EAN: 9781496816429
- Produktnummer: 26115779
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 354 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 13'625 KB
- Auflage: EPUB Single
- Abbildungen: 71 b&w illustrations
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