Overview

Geoffrey Himes explores a previously unnamed movement that helped shape modern country music: In-Law Country. It was a movement of outsiders who would become insiders. Weaving together biography and musical analysis, Himes shows how Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell, Ricky Skaggs, Guy Clark, and others changed the sounds and stories of country music forever.

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“When you call a movement that nobody has ever recognized as such ‘without doubt the genre’s most crucial development over the final quarter of the twentieth century,’ you’re really throwing down the gauntlet. I loved reading this book and learned a lot from it. I also found myself challenging it and arguing with it, which you might expect with a provocative work of criticism.” —Don McLeese, author, Dwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere

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Geoffrey Himes has won numerous awards for writing about music in the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, New York Times, No Depression, Downbeat, Paste, and many other publications since 1975. His book on Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A., was published in 2005. He has written liner notes for albums by Rosanne Cash, Merle Haggard, Marty Stuart, and more.

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