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In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey (Music in American by Jim Rooney PDF

By Jim Rooney

ISBN-10: 0252038231

ISBN-13: 9780252038235

ISBN-10: 0252079817

ISBN-13: 9780252079818

ISBN-10: 1504676939

ISBN-13: 9781504676939

Inspired by way of the Hank Williams and Leadbelly recordings he heard as transforming into up outdoors of Boston, Jim Rooney all started a musical trip that intersected with the various greatest names in American tune together with Bob Dylan, James Taylor, invoice Monroe, Muddy Waters, and Alison Krauss. In It for the longer term: A Musical Odyssey is Rooney's kaleidoscopic first-hand account of greater than 5 a long time of good fortune as a performer, live performance promoter, songwriter, track writer, engineer, and checklist producer.

As witness to and player in over a part century of tune heritage, Rooney presents a cosmopolitan window into American vernacular song. Following his stint as a "Hayloft Jamboree" hillbilly singer within the mid-1950s, Rooney controlled Cambridge's membership forty seven, a catalyst of the ‘60’s people track growth. He quickly moved to the Newport people competition as expertise coordinator and director the place he had a entrance row seat to Dylan "going electric."

In the Seventies Rooney's odyssey endured in Nashville the place he all started engineering and generating documents. His paintings helped substitute nation track achieve a foothold in song urban and culminated in Grammy nominations for singer-songwriters John Prine, Iris Dement, and Nanci Griffith. Later in his profession he was once a key hyperlink connecting Nashville to Ireland's people track scene.

Writing songs or writing his memoir, Jim Rooney is the consummate storyteller. In It for the longer term: A Musical Odyssey is his singular chronicle from the center of Americana.

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