Country Bob

Don Cusic is one of the premier historians of country music and an internationally known scholar and writer. As an author, teacher, historian, songwriter, record producer and executive, Cusic has been actively involved in the music business since 1973. He is a 2022 inductee into the Western Music Hall of Fame. He is also author of Saved by Song: A History of Gospel and Christian Music, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Bobby Meets Hank Williams—On the Radio
Chapter 2: Out in the Cold: The Minnesota Years
Chapter 3: Country Music: In the Beginning
Chapter 4: Woody Guthrie Enters the Scene
Chapter 5: New York vs. Nashville
Chapter 6: Freewheelin’ Rolls In
Chapter 7: Country Music Goes to College
Chapter 8: Hail, Hail Rock ’n’ Roll
Chapter 9: Once Upon a Time Like a Rolling Stone
Chapter 10: The Real McCoy and Charlie Is His Name
Chapter 11: Blonde on Blonde: Nashville but Definitely Not Country
Chapter 12: Retreat to Woodstock: Family Man
Chapter 13: Down to the Basement
Chapter 14: Great White Wonder on the Basement Tapes
Chapter 15: John Wesley Harding Arrives
Chapter 16: Nashville Skyline Drive
Chapter 17: The Johnny Cash Show Starring Bob Dylan
Chapter 18: Obviously Self-Portrait
Chapter 19: A Gallery of Country Singers
Chapter 20: Strapped to a Tree That Has His Roots
Chapter 21: Rolling Thunder and the Thunder Rolls
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Selected Bob Dylan Discography
Index