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Roadkill on the Three-Chord Highway: Art and Trash in American Popular Music

  • Author: Escott, Colin

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$52.50

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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Part 1 The Smoother Side of Town
  • 1. Roy Orbison: Starlight Lit My Lonesomeness
  • 2. Perry Como: RIP
  • 3. Patti Page: Oklahoma Blues
  • Part 2 Fabor A Scam for Every Occasion
  • 4. Jim Reeves: Say "Yes" to Rugs
  • 5. Mitch Torok: When Mexican Joe Gave up the Rhumba
  • 6. Ned Miller: From a Jack to a King
  • Part 3 Town Hall Party
  • 7. Skeets McDonald: You Oughta See Grandma
  • 8. Wynn Stewart: Not Such a Pretty World
  • 9. Wanda Jackson: Did She or Didn't She?
  • 10. The Collins Kids: Brokenhearted Ricky
  • Part 4 Memphis Sun Records, June 1957
  • 11. Sonny Burgess: The Wild Man at 70
  • 12. Ed Bruce: Mammas Don't Let Your Rock Boppin' Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys
  • 13. Onie Wheeler Onie's Unlikely Bop (3188)
  • Part 5 Postscript
  • 14. Vernon Oxford: Too Country for Country (5761)
  • Index