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"Many words have been dedicated to biographies and histories of early country music and its creators, but surprisingly little attention has been given to the actual songs at the heart of these narratives. In this groundbreaking book, music historian Tony Russell turns the spotlight on a vast archive of recordings from the 1920s and 1930s and uncovers the hidden stories of how they were recorded, the interventions of record companies that shaped them,...
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Scope and content: Newsclippings, manuscripts, biographical sketches, personal chronologies, and genealogical material - most of it undated - relating to the Lindsley family of Nashville, Tenn., and its allied lines including the Lawrence, Berrien, and Condit families. Most of these families are traced back to New England and the Eastern Seaboard in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although a number of the folders indicate materials on one...