Rural Roots of Bluegrass MB20487 $22.95

Wayne Erbsen’s newest book takes a deep look at bluegrass music to uncover its true roots: ballads of early pioneers, Scots-Irish fiddle tunes, black spirituals, plantations melodies, blues, murder ballads, sentimental parlor songs from Tin Pan Alley, North Carolina banjo styles and gospel songs. The book is richly illustrated with over 100 vintage photos and includes lyrics, musical notation, chords, history and playing tips to 94 songs. There are also nearly 80 pages of history and profiles portraying important musicians including the Monroe Brothers, Carter Family, Bradley Kincaid, Riley Puckett, Charlie Poole, Wade & J.E. Mainer, Vernon Dalhart, Carolina Tar Heels, G.B. Grayson and Henry Whitter, Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith, Ernest V. Stoneman, Blue Sky Boys, Fiddlin’ John Carson, Coon Creek Girls, Earl Scruggs, Eck Robertson, Callahan Brothers, Samantha Bumgarner, Bill Monroe Zeke & Wiley Morris, Jimmie Rodgers and Stringbean. Optional CD by Wayne Erbsen and Laura Boosinger is available containing fourteen songs from the book.

Johnny Cash American III: Solitary Man HL00306406 $14.95

All 14 songs from The Man in Black's 2000 studio album of covers, featuring a mixture of the incomparable Cash singing solo with guitar, and of inspired duets with the likes of Tom Petty and Sheryl Crow. Includes: Before My Time • Country Trash • Field of Diamonds • I See a Darkness • I Won't Back Down • I'm Leavin' Now • Mary of the Wild Moor • The Mercy Seat • Nobody • One • Solitary Man • That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) • Wayfaring Stranger • Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone).

The Best Of Johnny Cash HL00702043 $12.95

This books features 22 songs by 'The Man in Black' Johnny Cash arranged for easy guitar with notes & tab. Songs include 'A Boy named Sue', 'Five Feet High', 'Folsom Prison Blues', 'I Walk the Line', 'Jackson', and 'Ring of Fire'.