Welcome to the New Year!

Welcome back! I thought it would be good to start the first post of the new year off with a new releases list. so below is a list of releases I think will be interesting. It is by no means complete or exhaustive. If I have missed something (which I am sure I have), please leave your suggestion in the comments and I'll add it to the list.

I have a new interview and a couple of reviews ready to go. Since the beginning of the blog I've focused pretty heavily on country music related books, but for the next couple of weeks, at least, I'll be focusing a little on blues and rock. One reason is there isn't a whole lot out of interest related to country music right now (although I do have one country related book to read sitting on my shelf). Another reason is that, as much as I love country, I also love a lot of other genres, so this years you can expect to see coverage of books on country, bluegrass, jazz, rock, soul and R & B.

Without further ado, new releases:
Jan. 15:
Joel Whitburn Presents Music Stars: Brief Bios of Thousands of Pop/Rock/RandB/Hip-Hop/Country and Adult Contemporary Recording Artists by Joel Whitburn (Record Research)

Feb. 1:
Love Me Tender: The Stories Behind the World's Best-loved Songs by Max Cryer (Frances Lincoln)

Feb. 2:
Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry (Paperback Edition) by Holly George-Warren (Oxford University Press)

Feb. 24:
Under Their Thumb: How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell About It) by Bill German (Villard)

Mar. 9:
The Supremes: A Saga of Motown, Success, and Betrayal by Mark Ribowsky (Da Capo Press)

April 1:
Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century by Barry Mazor (Oxford University Press)

April 6:
Black Tooth Grin: The High Life, Good Times, and Tragic End of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott by Zac Crain (Da Capo Press)

May 2009:
Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity by Leigh Edwards (Indiana University Press)
Kristofferson: Wild American by Stephen Miller (Omnibus)

June 5, 2009:
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music by Elijah Wald (Oxford University Press)

July 2009:
The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Legacy in Country Music by Jocelyn R. Neal (Indiana University Press)