Don forwards:
>Has anyone heard of a book called Workin' Man Blues by Gerald Haslam
> (University of California Press). Pulse! - Tower records' freebie
> magazine - says it covers the history of California's country music and
> its makers - from the Crocketts in the '20s right through to Dwight
> Yoakam and Big Sandy> . . . so on and etc.
Then asks:
<Since no one on the hillbilly list has responded, I thought I'd see if
anyone here has read it, and if so, how is it?--don>
Hmmm. I don't want to preempt a review that is slated to appear in the
next issue of a periodical that some of you no doubt read, so I won't say
too much, but . . . don't get too excited . . . partisanship shading to
boosterism, lotta light and little shadow, a fact checker could have been
profitably employed, prose
that won't exactly send you running to find his novels, familiar narrative
elements conventionally arranged, balance of one page gives way to fear and
loathing of all things Nashville on the next, no discography . . . other
than that, a perfectly okay history . . . IMHO, YMMV, and any and all other
customary qualifiers of course in effect.
M. Moore
