With retail sales of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack exceeding 6.5 million copies since its 2000 release, bluegrass music has re-entered the spotlight as a major American style, spawning huge successes with subsequent albums. Author Stephanie P. Ledgin has captured the rich history of this music in Homegrown Music, a lively, informative book that is perfect for newcomers and devoted fans, musicians, and non-musicians. Though recognized and embraced internationally, bluegrass is one of only two musical genres native to America and, like jazz, it boasts a colorful and lively history, one that is captured here in all its detail complete with candid interviews with such legends as Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Covering such aspects of bluegrass as instrumentation, songs, the festival experience, and parking lot picking, Homegrown Music also offers candid interviews with many celebrated bluegrass figures. An extensive up-to-the-minute resource guide of print, audio-visual, and Internet materials rounds out the volume. Enthusiasts of all ages will find much to discover and much to enjoy.

Homegrown Music: Discovering Bluegrass

Biographies & Memoirs

Ricky Skaggs

Ledgin, Stephanie P.

Arts & Literature

Praeger

A close-up of stars and innovators from blues, bluegrass, country, folk, Celtic, and Cajun music

From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music

Arts & Photography

Charles Osgood

Photography & Video

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

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