Documentary - Further Reading

Further Reading

If you would like to explore some of the subjects featured in Folk America further, the following is a list of books that the producers consulted while making the series.

In Search of the Blues by Marybeth Hamilton

Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost by Tony Russell

Blacks White and Blues by Tony Russell

When We Were Good: The Folk Revival by Robert Cantwell

Great Day Coming by R Serge Denisoff

Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald

Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone: The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music by Mark Zwonitzer and Charles Hirshberg

Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus

Positively 4th Street by David Hajdu

A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the 60s by Suze Rotolo

Folk Music USA: The Changing Voice of Protest by Ronald D Lankford, Jnr

Josh White Society Blues by Elijah Wald

Lead Belly: A Life In Pictures ed. Tiny Robinson and John Reynolds

Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People by Alan Lomax, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger

Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein

The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music by Charles K. Wolfe and Ted Olson

Chronicles Volume 1 by Bob Dylan