Always Been a Rambler: G.B. Grayson and Henry Whitter, Country Music Pioneers of Southern Appalachia

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Biography and History
• A Dark Road Is a Hard Road to Travel: Brief Biographies of Grayson and Whitter
• Straddling the Appalachian Divide: Fries and Laurel Bloomery
• Henry Whitter and the Creation of Country Music
• The Long Shadow of G.B. Grayson
• I Wish I Was Single Again: Marriage and Divorce in the Grayson and Whitter Families
• Grayson, Whitter and the Hill Billies: Manufacturers of Music
• James W.M. Grayson, Tom Dula and the Appalachian Civil War
• The Courthouse Massacre
• On the Trail of Nancy Blevins
• The Music
• Overview
• The Dance Tunes
• The Murder Ballads
• Folksongs of the British Isles
• The Victorian Songs
• The Temperance Songs
• The Railroad Songs
• The Tin Pan Alley Songs
• The Comedy Songs
• American Folk Songs
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index