Our Own Sweet Sounds

Download or read book Our Own Sweet Sounds written by Robert Cochran and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the community that is Arkansas manifested in song, Our Own Sweet Sounds: A Celebration of Popular Song in Arkansas celebrates the diversity of musical forms and music makers that have graced the state since territorial times. This new edition includes approximately seventy new artists, some of whom became famous after 1996, when the first edition was published, such as Joe Nichols, and some of whom were left out of the original edition, such as Little Willie John. The valuable "Featured Performers" section - lengthy discussions of individual artists with their photographs - is now one-third larger.