By Cary Ginell,Kevin Coffey
ISBN-10: 0313311161
ISBN-13: 9780313311161
The results of years of analysis via its authors, this discography strives to spot and hint the recorded improvement of the musical kind referred to now as western swing from its early years via international conflict II. the fashion built from the Texas string band culture, growing to be from a mess around and guitar duo into complete swing band teams, and alongside the way in which, it drew from and absorbed numerous different musical types, hence making it essentially the most assorted genres in American song. beforehand, stories were constrained to some book-length biographies, yet via exhaustive study and interviews, Ginell and Coffey have supplied the main entire and accomplished directory of pre-War western swing and scorching string band recordings to date.
Accessible via quite a few indexes, the knowledge incorporated the following contains 4 sections. The reader can simply locate cross-referenced info on which musicians performed with which bands on which songs. Easy-to-follow linear and chronological improvement of the song is supplied as well.