Merging scholarly insight with a professional guitarist's keen sense of the musical life, this book delves into the rich tradition of country & western music that is played and loved in the mill towns and cities of the American northeast.
Clifford R. Murphy was a member of the seminal New Hampshire alternative country bands Say ZuZu and Hog Mawl. He has a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Brown University and is Director of Maryland Traditions, the folklife program of the Maryland State Arts Council.
