Books in the Music of the American South Series series

In April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase. No one involved could have known that the predicted crowd of twenty thousand would prove to be nearly five times that size. This book places readers at the historic event.

A biography of a country music legend and a portrait of a long-gone Nashville. Richly illustrated with black-and-white photos of Anderson interacting with the superstars of American roots music.

Neither a true biography in the Boswellian sense nor a work of cultural studies, although it combines elements of both. Even as biographer Jerry Grillo has investigated and pursued the facts, this life history of Col. Bruce reads like a novel-one full of amazing and hard-to-believe tales of a musical life lived on and off the road.