I am especially grateful to Rob Robbins, Jane Slaughter, Michael Fischer, and Bill Gordon for their help, and to Yolanda Martinez, Helen Ferguson, Dana Ellison, and the rest of the excellent History Department staff.
In 1963 Jim Dickson produced their one album, When the Ship Comes In, a collection of bluegrass standards and the Bob Dylan song of the album title. Dickson had a relationship with Dylan and access to Dylan's catalog of unreleased songs ...
Jay Dee would stay inside and drink coffee. . . . “He was used to working with great names; Jay Dee was a classic forhire studio musician. Those guys hung around Nashville at these open-allnight restaurants sipping coffee and taking ...
All students of women and gender, travel and place, the West and America, would do well to read this excellent book."—David M. Wrobel, author of Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West "Virginia Scharff ...
Twenty Thousand Roads paints an unprecedented portrait of the man who brought together country music and rock and roll, dispelling the myths and telling a story even wilder than the mythology.
Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of United States history--our restless, relentless westward movement--but sets out in new directions, following women's trails from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries.