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Name: Lost Highway
Full title: Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
Author: Peter Guralnick
Year: 1979
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Genres/categories: Music, Award winners, Non Fiction, Biographies, History

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Winner of the American Book Award in 1983.

This masterful exploration of American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. In incisive portraits based on searching interviews with these legendary performers, Peter Guralnick captures the boundless passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes almost desperately, on the road.
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