A chronological guide to bluegrass music that describes and traces the development of this musical genre.
Thomas Goldsmith is a journalist and musician. For more than thirty years, he has worked both in daily newspapers in North Carolina and Tennessee and as a freelance writer. He is the editor of Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown and winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association's best journalist award.
International Bluegrass Music Association's 2004 award for Print
Media Personality of the Year.
"Will stand for decades as a great reference work and the perfect
introductory read for anyone interested in the history of bluegrass
and its major figures."--Nashville Scene
"The Bluegrass Reader successfully manages to appeal to both the
bluegrass insider and the newcomer to the genre, and in the process
has given well-deserved new life to some masterful bits of
writing."--Bluegrass Unlimited
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