Contemporary Country coast to coast: How Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson qualified for "Lifestyles of the rich and famous" / Ken Tucker -- The bottom line: business practices that shaped country music / Bill Ivey -- From the bump-bump room to the barricades: Waylon, Tompall, and the outlaw revolution / Chet Flippo -- Will the circle be unbroken?: country's changing image / Patrick Carr -- Don't get above your raisin': Ricky Skaggs, Alabama, and their contemporaries / David Gates -- No fences: Garth Brooks, Dwight Yoakam, and the nineties explosion / Michael McCall.
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Honky-Tonkin': Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, and the bartender's muse / Nick Tosches -- Home is where the gig is: life on and off the road / Alanna Nash -- Get rhythm: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and the Rockabillies / Robert Palmer -- Honky-tonk angels: Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline / Robert K. Oermann -- Soundtrack of the South: A fan's view of country / Paul Hemphill.
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Origins: Hey, hey, tell 'em 'bout us: Jimmie Rodgers visits the Carter family / Nolan Porterfield -- The triumph of the hills: Country radio 1920-50 / Charles Wolfe -- New improved homogenized: country radio since 1950 / Edward Morris -- Tumbling tumbleweeds: Gene Autry, Bob Wills, and the dream of the west / Douglas B. Green -- Country across the country / Ronnie Pugh -- The Golden age of hillbilly music: Blue moon of Kentucky: Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, and the birth of bluegrass / Neil Rosenberg.
. - Provides coverage of country music history and its stars from its beginnings to the present, including a list of country's top fifty crossovers.
