"In The Bluegrass Reader, Thomas Goldsmith joins his insights as a journalist with a lifetime of experience in bluegrass to capture the full story of this music. Inspired by the question "What articles about bluegrass would you want to have with you on a desert island?" he assembled a fun-to-read collection that brings together a wide range of the very best in bluegrass writing." "Goldsmith's substantial introduction describes and traces the development...

Former Blue Grass Boy Tom Ewing presents a full collection of writings concerning Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass Music.

"Suffused with her much-loved warmth and wit, Emma John's memoir follows her moving and memorable journey to master one of the hardest musical styles on earth--and to find her place in an alien world. Emma had fallen out of love with her violin when a chance trip to the American South introduced her to bluegrass music. Classically trained, highly strung and wedded to London life, Emma was about as country as a gin martini. So why did it feel like...