American Made Music Series

Explorations of music history, origins, development, and players. Recent titles include: MuzikMafia: From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream; The Jazz Image. Series editor: David Evans, Professor of Music at University of Memphis.

78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South

Africa and the Blues

Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge: The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945

Bad Boy of Gospel Music: The Calvin Newton Story

Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years

The Beat!: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.

Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942

Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell

A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music

Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World

Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz

Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe

Earl Hooker, Blues Master

Eddy Arnold: Pioneer of the Nashville Sound

Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States

Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine

The Guitar in America: Victorian Era to Jazz Age

Hank Williams, So Lonesome

He Stopped Loving Her Today: George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest Country Record of all Time

In Close Harmony: The Story of the Louvin Brothers

I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta

Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats

Jazz Diplomacy: Promoting America in the Cold War Era

Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler

The Johnson Family Singers: We Sang for Our Supper

Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK

Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age

Ladies of Soul

Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story

Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers

Louisiana Fiddlers

Mario Lanza: Singing to the Gods

The Melody Man: Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978

Memphis Boys: The Story of American Studios

Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967

Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues

MuzikMafia: From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream

The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999

Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From: Lyrics and History

The Norumbega Harmony: Historic and Contemporary Hymn Tunes and Anthems from the New England Singing School Tradition

Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895

The Pilgrim Jubilees

The Poetics of American Song Lyrics

Prophet Singer
The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie

Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943

Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz

Richard Dyer-Bennet: The Last Minstrel

Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR

Sam Myers: The Blues Is My Story

Saved by Song: A History of Gospel and Christian Music

Scotty And Elvis: Aboard the Mystery Train

Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery

Shreveport Sounds in Black and White

Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland

The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built

The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built

Strike Songs of the Depression

Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues

That's Got 'Em!: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman

To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition

Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues, and National Identities

A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz

Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street

Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party

Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life

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On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special.  Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All

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