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and available books & audio tapes & videos & DVDs & posters & ebooks for purchase...
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Artists & Groups
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Eddy Arnold
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Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown [d. 2005]
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The Carter Family
The Carter Family Memorial Music Center in Hiltons, VA
entry at Wikipedia
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"Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family & Their Legacy In American Music" [2002] by Mark Zwonitzer with Charles Hirshberg S&S 8¼x5½ pb [2/2004] for $10.50 S&S 9½x6.4 hardcover [7/2002] for $17.50 S&S {bargain} 9½x6.4 hardcover [7/2002] for $6.99 |
Johnny Cash: Essentials • concerts on DVD • concerts on VHS
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Patsy Cline: Essentials
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Tennessee Ernie Ford [1919-91]
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official website
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The Gatlin Brothers: browse music • official website
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Bob Dylan
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concerts on VHS |
concerts on DVD |
Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame 1988
"Chronicles: Vol. 1" autobiography [2004] by Bob Dylan
S&S hardcover [10/2004] for $16.32 |
S&S pb [9/2005] for $10.78
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Don Gibson [d 2003]
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Woody Guthrie [1912-67]
Essentials •
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Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame 1988
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Robert Johnson
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Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame 1986 |
documentaries on VHS |
career box set
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Leadbelly [real name Huddie Ledbetter]
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Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame 1988
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Roger Miller [1936-92]
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museum in Erick, OK
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The Oak Ridge Boys [est. 1943 as gospel group]
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Buck Owens
Essentials •
official website
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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: browse music • official website
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Jimmie Rodgers: browse music • Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame 1986
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Linda Ronstadt: Essentials
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Hank Snow
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Hank Snow Country Music Centre in Canada
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Cliffie Stone: official website
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Bob Wills !['San Antonio Rose' midi file [1 min 56 sec]](images/tinymusic.gif){kind=small}
Essentials •
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Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame 1999
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Gretchen Wilson: browse music
Links
Country Music Hall of fame
Grand Ole Opry official website
Country Vintage: Legends of Country Music
Country Legends Assn.
Countryworks 'Century of Country' website
East Tennessee Old Time Music Index
Roughstock's History of Country Music
Louisiana Hayride official website
Folk Alley: Kent State's 24/7 folk music webcast
Hillbilly Music [dot] com
Great American Country Television [est. 1995]
Events
Albuquerque [NM] Folk Festival [June 2007 = #9]
Kent State Folk Festival [Nov] in Kent, OH
Books
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"Classic Country: The Golden Age of Country Music - The 20's thru the 70's" [2001]
Time-Life 12x10¼ hardcover [11/2001] out of print/used |
Music CDs
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"The Complete Lester 'Roadhog' Moran & The Cadillac Cowboys" [1995] satire by the Statler Brothers Mercury Nashville audio CD [2/95] for $9.95 |
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"The Best of The Thistle & Shamrock, Vol. 1" [1999]
artists & groups include Altan; Battlefield Band; Pierre Bensusan; Clannad; Alasdair Frazer & Paul Machlis; Dick Gaughan; William Jackson; Dougie MacLean; Maura O'Connell; Relativity; Sileas; and Davy Spillane Hearts of Space audio CD [1/99] for $15.98 official radio program website at N.P.R. |
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"Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music" [1952] Vols. 1-3: Smithsonian/Folkways audio CD [8/97] 6 disks for $76.49 Vol. 4: Revenant audio CD [5/2000] 2 disks / out of prodn/used |
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