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Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock Paperback - 2001

by John Einarson


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Desperados is the first full history to describe the development of ountry rock, the genre that spawned the world's bestselling record, The Eagles Greatest Hits (which has surpassed Michael Jackson's Thriller .

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  • Title Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock
  • Author John Einarson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cooper Square Press, New York
  • Date 2001-01-16
  • ISBN 9780815410652 / 0815410654
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Country rock music - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00031752
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.642

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2001, Page 1441
  • Library Journal, 03/01/2001, Page 94
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/11/2001, Page 0

About the author

John Einarson is a respected rock music historian and the author of several books including For What It's Worth: The Story of the Buffalo Springfield and Neil Young: Don't Be Denied. He lives in Winnipeg, Canada.
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NY: Cooper Square Press, 2001. 1st pbk. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 285 pages, b&w illustrations. As told by the musicians who made it happen, Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock revisits country rock's rise to the top of the charts. Music scholar John Einarson delves into the years from 1963, when Buck Owens and his Buckaroos brought an electric edge to their Texas honky-tonk tunes, to 1973, when The Eagles released their album "Desperado" on David Geffen's label. Einarson examines how folk, rockabilly, blues, Nashville country, Tejano, bluegrass, and other musical idioms influenced a generation of journeyman musicians. He traces the paths taken by the songsmiths, the bands in which they served their apprenticeships, and the songs they wrote together, as they steadily shaped the country rock sound. The protagonists of this story include talented but troubled Gram Parsons, a virtuoso determined to burn out before he faded away; the versatile and appealing Linda Ronstadt; Mike Nesmith,… Read More
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