Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass (Music in by Murphy Hicks Henry PDF

By Murphy Hicks Henry

ISBN-10: 0252032861

ISBN-13: 9780252032868

ISBN-10: 0252079175

ISBN-13: 9780252079177

The first e-book dedicated solely to ladies in bluegrass, Pretty reliable for a Girl files the lives of greater than seventy girls whose brilliant contributions to the improvement of bluegrass were, for the main half, ignored. Accessibly written and arranged via decade, the publication starts with Sally Ann Forrester, who performed accordion and sang with invoice Monroe's Blue Grass Boys from 1943 to 1946, and maintains into the current with artists reminiscent of Alison Krauss, Rhonda Vincent, and the Dixie Chicks. Drawing from broad interviews, recognized banjoist Murphy Hicks Henry supplies voice to ladies performers and innovators all through bluegrass's heritage, together with such pioneers as Bessie Lee Mauldin, Wilma Lee Cooper, and Roni and Donna Stoneman; kinfolk bands together with the Lewises, Whites, and McLains; and later pathbreaking performers comparable to the Buffalo Gals and different all-girl bands, Laurie Lewis, Lynn Morris, Missy Raines, and lots of others.

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