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September 16, 2023

Highways and Heartaches How Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, and Children of the New South Saved Soul of Country Music [Audiobook]

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Free Download Highways and Heartaches: How Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, and Children of the New South Saved the Soul of Country Music (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BTQ2C4B8 | 2023 | 7 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 231 MB
Author: Michael Streissguth
Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smith
In this enlightening and entertaining book, experience the evolution of country music, from the 1970s Appalachian hillbilly chitlin’ circuit to the 1980s country music boom that paved the way for modern Americana. In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky sits a sagging outdoor stage buried in moss and dead leaves. It used to be the centerpiece of carnival-like Sunday afternoons where local guitarists, fiddlers and mandolin players hammered out old mountain ballads and legends from the dawn of country music performed their classic hits.

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