“Fightin’ Side of Me, The” 97
Fire on the Mountain 151, 153, 195
“Fire on the Mountain” 143, 195
“Folsom Prison Blues” 64
“For the Good Times” 191
Forever Young 190
“Four Strong Winds” 58
“Freedom to Stay” 80
Free–wheelin’ Bob Dylan 68
Frisco Mabel Joy 191
From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music 192
G
Gail Davies 197
“Gentle on My Mind” 16, 80
George Hamilton IV: 1954–65 190
“Georgia on My Mind” 88
“Girl from the North Country” 59
“God Bless America” 24
“God Bless America Again” 85
“Good–bye Little Rock and Roller” 185, 201
“Goodnight Irene” 139
Gordon Lightfoot: The United Artists Collection 190
“Grandma’s Song” 197
“Great Speckled Bird” 116
Greats of County Music, Vol. 1, The 187
“Groover’s Paradise” 136
Guitar Town 198
H
Hank Williams Jr. and Friends 197
Hasten Down the Wind 196
“He Stopped Loving Her Today” 16
“He Would Be Sixteen” 180
Heart Like a Wheel 196
“Heart Made of Stone” 147
“Heartaches By the Number” 191
“Heartbreak Town” 15
Heaven Help the Child 191
“Heaven Help the Child” 174
“Hello in There” 122
“Hello Walls” 127
“Help Me Make It Though The Night” 105, 106, 191
“Help Me” 118, 120
“Here, There and Everywhere” 163
“High Time (You Quit Your Low Down Ways)” 188
“Hobo and a Rose” 172
Home 199
“Honey Chile” 96
Honky Tonk Girl 194
Honky Tonk Heroes 188
“Hot Corn, Cold Corn” 46
Hummingbirds 200
“Hungry Eyes” 98
I
“I Am a Pilgrim” 157
“I Am a Seeker” 119–120
“I Believe the South is Gonna Rise Again” 16, 99
“I Can’t Stop Loving You” 89, 165
“I Know One” 196, 197
“I Saw the Light” 116, 159
“I Think I’m Gonna Kill You and Bury You in a Box About Half Your Size” 160
“I Want to See the Parade” 91
I’ll Be There 201
“I’ll Be Your San Antone Rose” 163
I’ll Love You More 187
“I’m a Honky Tonk Girl” 108
“I’m Going Back to Alabam’” 46, 102
“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” 38
“If We Make It Through December” 97
“If You Love Me Let Me Know” 160
Inside Job 201
“Instant Coffee Blues” 11, 112
“Irma Jackson” 98
“It Must Have Rained in Heaven” 120
It’s Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song 189
“It’s Not for Me To Understand” 134
J
“Jackson” 52
“Jamestown Ferry” 160
Jeannie Seely: Greatest Hits on Monument 187
John Prine 194
Judy Collins’ Fifth Album 189
“Just Call Me Lonesome” 198
K
King of Country Music 187
Kingston Springs Suite 175
Kristofferson 191
L
Ladies Love Outlaws 188
“Last Thing on My Mind, The” 42
“Lead On” 118
Legendary DeFord Bailey: Country Music’s First Black Star, The 193
“Let Me Be There” 160
“Let’s All Help the Cowboys (Sing the Blues)” 188
Live at Kansas State with the Earl Scruggs Revue 192
Live at the Station Inn 197
Living Proof: The MGM Recordings 1963–1975 197
Lone Star State of Mind 199
Lonesome On’ry and Mean 188
“Long Black Veil” 83
“Long Haired Country Boy” 11,151–152
“Long Time Gone” 15
“Lord Knows I’m Drinking, The” 116
Lost in the Lonesome Pines 200
“Love in the Hot Afternoon” 176
“Lovesick Blues” 35
Lullabies, Legends and Lies 194
Luxury Liner 196
Lying to the Moon & Other Stories 200
“Lying to the Moon” 197
M
“Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken)” 193
“Man in Black” 63, 73
“Man of Constant Sorrow” 183
Mark Twang 191
“Masters of War” 68
“Me and Bobby McGee” 77, 79, 80, 106, 173
“Melva’s Wine” 174
“Memories of Us” 102
“Mendocino” 135
Midnight & Lonesome 200
“Mississippi, You’re On My Mind” 101
Mountain Soul 197
“My Country” 86
N
Nashville Skyline 72, 151
New Wood 201
“New York City Song” 102
“Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The” 82
“Nobody Wins” 198
“Not Tonight I’ve Got a Headache” 105
O
“Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back” 52
“Oh Cumberland” 201
“Oh Lonesome Me” 165
“Okie from Muskogee” 70, 85, 86, 97
“Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine” 13, 32, 96, 179
Old No. 1 195
Old Time Songs … Guitar Tunes 187
“On Susan’s Floor” 174
“One Piece at a Time” 74
“One’s on the Way” 109, 110
Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line: The RCA Years 188
“Outbound Plane” 198
“Outside Nashville City Limits” 83, 191
P
“Pan American Blues” 27
“Pick Me Up on Your Way Down” 78
“Pill, The” 109
Pretty Close to the Truth 200
“Promised Land” 91
R
“Ragged Old Flag” 74
“Railroad Boy” 49
“Rain” 120
“Rain Just Falls” 9
“Rainy Night in Georgia, A” 88
“Ramblin’ Man” 111
RCA Years: 1967–1986, The 194
Real Mr. Heartache: The Little Darlin’ Years, The 194
Red Dirt Girl 182, 196
Red Headed Stranger 195
“Red Necks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer” 13, 96, 97
Resurrect 199
“Reverend Mr. Black” 52
“Ride Me Down Easy” 16, 80
Rogue, The 188
Ropin’ the Wind 197
“Rosalie’s Good Eats Café” 13, 123, 194
Roses in the Snow 196
S
“Sad–eyed Lady of the Lowlands” 72
“Sam Stone” 122
“San Francisco Mabel Joy” 95
“San Quentin” 16, 66, 179
Scuffletown 199
“She’s About a Mover” 135
Silver Dagger, The 189
Singing Brakeman, The 188
“Sixteen Tons” 51
“Someday Soon” 198
“Somewhere Between Lust and Sitting Home Watching TV” 112
“Son of the Father” 168
Song Remembers When, The 197
“South’s Gonna Do It Again, The” 153
“Stand By Your Man” 110
Step Inside This House 199
Storyteller, Philosopher, Poet: Tom T. Hall 193
Straw into Gold 197
Sun Years, The 190
“Sunday Morning Coming Down” 73, 77, 79, 179, 191
“Sweet Home Alabama” 102
“Sweet Sunny South” 102
T
“T for Texas, T for Tennessee” 42, 43, 127
“Take It Like a Man” 180
“Tell Me a Lie” 105
“That Old Time Feeling” 74
“They Can’t Put It Back” 52
“This Ain’t Just Another Lust Affair” 105
“This is My Year for Mexico” 16, 176
“This Land Is Your Land” 98
Threads 184, 201
“To Beat the Devil” 191
“Toast of ’45” 172
“Tobacco Road” 102
“Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down” 163
“Too Many Rivers” 191
“Tutti Frutti” 148
U
Ultimate Charlie Daniels Band, The 195
Under the Influence 199
“Urge for Going” 76
W
“Walkaway Joe” 180
Walk the Way the Wind Blows 198
Wanted: The Outlaws 188
“We Need More Barns” 18
“Welfare Cadillac” 70
“What is Truth?” 70
“What’d I Say” 88
When Fallen Angels Fly 198
“When I Wake Up to Sleep No More” 115
“When Will I Be Loved” 160
“Where Have all the Heroes Gone” 85, 86
Where is a Woman to Go 197
Where the Sidewalk Ends 195
“Where the Sidewalk Ends” 15
Whispering Bill Anderson’s Greatest Hits 192
“White Man Singing the Blues” 98
“Who Was Bradley Kincaid?” 176
“Whoever Turned You On Forgot to Turn You Off” 105
“Why Me, Lord?” 116
“Wide Open Spaces” 183
Wild Mountain Flowers 189
“Wild Mountain Thyme” 190
“Wildfire” 128
“Wildwood Flower” 83
Will the Circle Be Unbroken (album) 155, 158–159, 192, 195
Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 3 201
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” 21, 139, 156
“Wings Upon Your Horns” 106
“Woman in the Back of My Mind” 112
Wrecking Ball 196
“Wrinkled, Crinkled, Wadded Dollar Bill” 171
Y
“Yes” 180
Yesterday’s Wine 134, 195
“You Don’t Seem to Miss Me” 15
“You’ve Never Been this Far Before” 103
“Your Cheatin’ Heart” 89, 159
Names and Places
A
Abbott, Texas, 127
ABC–TV 71
Acuff, Roy 20, 23, 28, 44, 116, 156, 157, 161, 187
Acuff–Rose Publishing 157
Allen, Ken 21
Allman Brothers 142, 144, 146, 149–150, 195
Allman, Duane 149
Allman, Gregg 149
Anderson, Bill 82, 85–87, 112, 116, 161, 192
Appalachian Mountains 46–62
Arata, Tony 179
Armadillo World Headquarters 130–131
Armstrong, Louis 44
Arnold, Eddy 28, 158
Asheville, North Carolina 43, 56, 115
Asleep at the Wheel 128
Associated Press 13, 95
Association of Country Entertainers 161
Atkins, Chet 16, 58, 90, 95, 119, 161, 164–165, 166, 198
Atlanta, Georgia 25, 26, 42, 128
Austin City Limits 128
Austin, Texas 31, 59, 128–131, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140
Axton, Hoyt 19, 76
B
Baez, Joan 13, 57, 61, 62, 82, 83, 84, 102, 191–192
Bailey, DeFord 16, 27, 93–94, 193
Bakersfield, California 31
Bare, Bobby 58–59, 61, 85, 123, 189, 194
Bare, Bobby Jr. 190
Barn Dance, WBAP 25
Barn Dance, WLS 46, 176
Barn Dance, WSM 24
Battle of Iwo Jima 69
Beale Street 147
Beatles, The 114, 178
Benton, Barbi 159–160, 162
Benton, Brook 88, 90
Berea College 47, 52
Berg, Matraca 185, 197, 200
Berry, Chuck 90
Bess, Tootsie 16, 22
Betts, Richard 149–150, 154
Birmingham, Alabama 162
Bitter End West 81, 82
Blake, Norman 82
Bland, Bobby Blue 41, 90
Bluebird Café 184
Bluegrass music 48–49, 144, 150, 182
Blues music 41, 44, 89, 90, 96, 147
BMI 93
Bobby’s Idle Hour 18
Bogguss, Suzy 180, 198
Bonner, M.J. 25
Bono, Cher 149
Boone, Daniel 54
Boone, Pat 46
Borchers, Bobby 160
Born Again 67
Boston, Massachusetts 178
Braddock, Bobby 16, 99–100
Bristol, Tennessee 43
Brock, Chad 180
Brook, Bill 171
Brooklyn, New York 53
Brooks, Garth 178–179, 180, 197
Brown, James 148
Brown, Mel 41, 42
Brush Arbor 102
Bryant, Boudleaux 148
Bryant, Felice 148
Bumgarner, Aunt Samantha 56
Bush, Sam 201
Butcher Hollow, Kentucky 106, 107
Buttrey, Kenny 72
Byrds, The 157
C
Caldwell, Tommy 142
Callery, Bill 135
Camden, New Jersey 43
Campbell, Will D. 124–126
Canton, Ohio 36
Capricorn Records 146, 150
Carnes, Kim 185
Carowinds Amphitheater 114–115
Carroll, Milton 138
Carson City, Nevada 64
Carson, Fiddling John 25, 26
Carter family, The 59, 155, 165, 176, 191
Carter, A.P. 121, 155, 158
Carter, Clarence 148
Carter, Fred Jr., 72
Carter, Jimmy 153
Carter, Maybelle 16, 21, 156, 157
Carter, Wilf 59
Casey, Jim 172
Cash, Johnny 11, 12, 13, 16, 20, 21, 44, 52, 63–75
legacy of, 76–79
influence on young writers, 82, 87, 120, 121, 122, 169, 171, 174, 175, 177, 179, 186, 190, 201
Cash, June Carter 52, 67, 79
Cash, Ray 65
Castle Creek Club 138–139
Chaney, Lonesome Bob 9
Chapman, Marshall 178, 185, 201
Charles, Ray 16, 88–89, 90, 192
Charleston, South Carolina 76
Charlie Danie
ls Band 142
Charlotte Motor Speedway 103, 108
Charlotte Observer 13
Charlotte, North Carolina 48, 128, 139
Checker, Chubby 171
Chicago, Illinois 26, 42, 46, 121
Church of God 66, 118, 119
Cincinnati, Ohio 46
Clark, Cortelia 94–96, 193
Clark, Guy 11, 62, 112, 139–140, 169, 195, 199
Clark, Susanna 163
Clement, Jack 188, 197
Clements, Vassar 156, 157
Clower, Jerry 24
Cohen, Leonard 60
Colby, Paul 81
Collins, Judy 53, 71, 189
Collins, Tom 168
Colson, Charles 67
Colter, Jessi 125, 188
Columbia Records 68, 79
Columbia, South Carolina 86
Committee of Southern Churchmen 124
Conley, Arthur 148
Cooke, Sam 91
Coolidge, Rita 120
Cooper, Alice 143
Country Music Association 79
Country Music Hall of Fame 17
Coy Cook and the Premiers 114
Creedence Clearwater Revival 182
Crook Brothers, The 27, 30, 31
Crook, Herman 28, 30
Crosby, David 77, 78
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young 77
Crowell, Rodney 9, 17, 185, 197
Curtis, King 156
D
Dalhart, Vernon 68
Dallas, Texas 92
Danbury, Connecticut 125
Daniels, Charlie 11, 16, 33, 44, 142–143, 144–145, 150–154, 156, 195
Davies, Gail 178, 197
Davis, Skeeter 31, 32, 187
Davis, The Reverend Gary 89
Decatur, Georgia 86
Deep Gap, North Carolina 48
Del McCoury Band 198
DeMent, Iris 201
Denver, Colorado 155
Dickens, Hazel 45, 51–52, 189
Dill, Danny 58
Dixie Chicks, The 11, 15, 183, 199, 200
Dorsey, Tommy 153
Drake, Guy 70
Drake, Pete 72
Dreaming Out Loud 14
Drusky, Roy 23
Durham, Hal 30
Dust Bowl, Oklahoma 56, 98
Dyess, Arkansas 62, 65, 66
Dylan, Bob 13, 39, 54, 57, 58, 59, 61, 67–73, 190–191
friendship with Johnny Cash, 71, 78, 81, 96, 122, 135, 151, 156
E
Eagles, The 14
Earl Scruggs Revue 158
Earle, Steve 169, 182, 198
Edwards, Stoney 102
English, Paul 131, 133
Epic Records 150
Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree 140
Ernest Tubb Record Shop 23, 140–141, 142
Everly Brothers 148, 165
Everly, Don 147
Everly, Phil 147
F
Fargo, Donna 96
Feiler, Bruce 14
Feller, Dick 62
Feller, Sid 88–89
Ferguson, Bob 119
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