Country : The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll (book)

Country : The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll
Book by Nick Tosches

Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country : The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven...
Medieval myth and musical miscegenation sex, drugs, murder and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own.
Profusely and superbly illustrated, this book by Nick Tosches stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.