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Bluegrass in Baltimore|Tim Newby

Bluegrass in Baltimore : The Hard Drivin' Sound and Its Legacy

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With an influx of Appalachian migrants who came looking for work in the 1940s and 1950s, Baltimore found itself populated by some extraordinary mountain musicians and was for a brief time the center of the bluegrass world. Life in Baltimore for these musicians was not easy. There were missed opportunities, personal demons and always the up-hill battle with prejudice against their hillbilly origins. Based upon interviews with legendary players from the golden age of Baltimore bluegrass, this book provides the first in-depth coverage of this transplanted-roots music and its broader influence, detailing the struggles Appalachian musicians faced in a big city that viewed the music they made as the "poorest example of poor man's music."

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  • ISBN-13: 9780786494392
  • ISBN-10: 0786494395
  • Publisher: McFarland & Company
  • Publish Date: June 2015
  • Dimensions: 9.4 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
  • Page Count: 244
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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