Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians

By: Peter Guralnick

Published July 1st 1999 by Back Bay Books (first published September 1979)

Category: Biography

Pages: 368 pages

ISBN: 9780316332743

Description:
This masterful exploration of American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. In incisive portraits based on searching interviews with these legendary performers, Peter Guralnick captures the boundless passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes almost desperately, on the road.