Watermelon Wine: The Spirit of Country Music

by Frye Gaillard

Book Overview

"Watermelon Wine was a groundbreaking look at country music when first published 25 years ago. This new edition features a new introduced by Peter Cooper and an afterword by the author.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312856970
• ISBN13: 9780312856977
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A straightforward examination of the country music tradition and the passions that fuel it

Now published in a 25th anniversary edition including a "listener's guide to country music", Watermelon Wine: Remembering the Golden Years of Country Music is a straightforward examination of the country music tradition and the passions that fuel it by award-winning journalist and author Frye Gaillard. Chapters address diverse subsets of the genre from blues country to gospel country, the legacy of Johnny Cash, the impact of commercialism on country music creativity, and much more. A solid, hands-on assessment of one of America's most enduring musical traditions, once considered vulgar and crude but lately earning a respectable place in people's hearts for its raw emotion and vivacity.