My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
New York: Black Heritage Publishing/ Atria, 2024. Hardcover. Fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket, 278 pp. with index. A celebration of country music as a genre with its original yet ever-evolving Black roots and flowers. At the age of three, auythor Alice Randall, sitting the front seat of her father's car, began writing hre first country song ("Daddy, Don't Go in That B-A-R"). Here she relates the rarely recognized no less told history of the frist family of Black country music---DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, Herb Jeffries. Randall herself was the first Black woman to cowrite a #1 country hit, Trisha Yearwood's "XXXs and OOOs" Fine / fine. Item #E31766
ISBN: 9781668018408
Price: $18.95