CALS Six Bridges Book Festival - Brian Fairbanks & Stephan Koch

Описание: About the author:
Brian Fairbanks worked as an investigative reporter at Gawker and the Consumerist. He has also written for the Guardian, Business Insider, the New York Observer, Nerve, and many more, and is the author of Wizards: David Duke, America’s Wildest Election, and the Rise of the Far Right.

About the book:
Willie, Waylon, and the Boys: How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever is the tragic and inspiring story of the leaders of outlaw country and their influence on today’s alt-country and Americana superstars, tracing a path from Waylon Jennings’s survival on the Day the Music Died through to the Highwaymen and on to the current creative and commercial explosion of Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Zach Bryan, Jason Isbell, and the Highwomen.


About the author:
Stephen Koch is a musician, author, cartoonist, and award-winning journalist in both broadcast media and print. Koch is the host of the award-winning Arkansongs, syndicated on public radio stations throughout the Mid-South. Illustrator Katherine Strause is a working artist and educator who exhibits nationally, with her work found in many public and private collections. She is retired chair of the art department and professor of painting at Henderson State University.

About the book:
From Almeda to Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song profiles thirty artists who have impacted music worldwide and spread their influence in ways we’re still discovering. Going from A to Z across the decades and genres, it illuminates a wide cross-section of people and musical styles, including gospel (Rosetta Tharpe), opera (Marjorie Lawrence), blues (Sippie Wallace), folk ballads (Almeda Riddle), dance-pop (Beth Ditto), classical (Florence Price), and country (K.T. Oslin), with surprises like Maya Angelou’s side career as a calypso singer; Eva Ware Barnett, who wrote the official state song; and Carrie Rivers Cash, who enabled the musical career of her son, Johnny Cash. Vivid painted portraits by artist Katherine Strause make clear the strength and artistry of these cultural pioneers.