The untold story of Chicago’s pivotal role as a country and folk music capital. Chicago is revered as a musical breeding ground, having launched major figures

Reviews and rates the best recordings of country artists and groups, provides biographies of the artists, and charts the evolution of country music

This series of biographical profiles shines a spotlight on that special place "Where the West meets the Guitar." From Gene Autry and Roy Rogers to contemporary

More than twenty years in the making, Country Music Records documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through 1942. With primary research based o

Includes essays tracing Country's growth from hand-me-down folk to a major American industry; concise biographies; critical album reviews, from the earliest com