"Country Music: The Masters" in USA Today's holiday gift guide of music-related books
Posted by: Publicity on Dec 11, 2008

There are several books listed in the round-up (on-line), but Country Music is one of four books featured in the print issue, complete with cover and a photo from the book (the one they chose is of Porter Wagoner (pg. 172). USA Today is the largest circulation newspaper in the country, printing over 2.2 million issues a day. This is a big hit - congrats to all!
Country Music: The Masters
By Marty Stuart (Sourcebooks, $50)
Musician Stuart, who owns the world's largest private collection of country music memorabilia, serenades the genre's pioneers, stars and culture with this opulent coffee-table book. Many of his photos, including the ghostly cover of Johnny Cash taken four days before his death, are published here for the first time. He shares his posters, elaborate costumes (Hank Snow's Nudie suits, Dottie West's rhinestone pumps) and guitars. (Woody Guthrie's fiddle is crudely carved, "This machine killed 10 fascists.") Stuart mostly gravitates to the grand figures of country, from an irreverent Jerry Lee Lewis to a spunky Tammy Wynette. A companion CD contains Dark Bird, Stuart's Cash tribute, performed at the funeral but never released.

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