Yankee Twang: Country and Western Music in New England

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Academy of Country Music, 18 Acuff, Roy, 17, 81 Adams, Kay, 180 African Americans, 9–10, 28, 41, 44–46, 53, 74, 130, 137 Albro, Maril, 96, 101, 120–22 Allerton and Alton, 97, 137 alternation, 125–26, 144 Arnold, Eddy, 59, 81 Aroostook County, 6, 32, 75, 79–80, 133, 176, 180 Atkins, Chet, 29, 59, 100 Austin, Wendell, v, 82 Auto Rest Park, 92, 98–99 Autry, Gene, xv, 48, 68, 126 Bailey, Bud and His Downeasters, 49, 52–53, 57, 72–74, 93, 148–50, 153, 156 Bangor, Maine, 2, 4, 14, 29, 44, 54–55, 57, 70, 76–77, 79, 88, 99, 103, 133–35, 137, 139, 158, 166, 177, 184 Barnes, Jimmy, 14–15, 34, 36, 171, 175–76, 179–80 barnstorming, 48–49, 51, 54–57, 71, 74, 112, 114–15, 121, 130, 145, 148, 151, 155–58, 162 Beacon Street Union, 84–85 Bisbee, Jasper, 41 blackface minstrelsy, 9, 37, 43, 45–47, 52–54, 126, 138–40 bluegrass music, 21–22, 65, 67, 70–71, 78, 174, 185 blues, 17, 26, 71, 73–74, 76, 84, 120 Index Boncore, Angelo, v, 104, 113, 141–43 Boston: Combat Zone, 66; downtown, 165–66; North End, 141–42 Boston Garden, 67–68 Breau, Denny, 87, 136, 160, 167, 178 Breau, Harold, 7, 27–29, 53, 58–62, 69–70, 74–76, 81, 85, 99, 102, 125–26, 134–39, 144, 155, 157–58, 160, 162, 167, 172, 185 Breau, Lenny, 29, 76–77, 157 Britt, Elton, 56, 63, 69, 175 Bronner, Simon, 22–24, 28, 40, 43 Brothers, Lane, 65–68, 86, 128, 130 Brothers, Lilly, 61, 63, 66–67, 75, 77, 97 Brown, Country Gordy, x, 89 Brown, George, 48 Burkley, Kathy, 83 Byrds, The, 29, 84–85 Calderone, Joseph, 104, 141 Calderone, Vincent, 52, 56, 104, 127, 141–42, 150 Camp, Charles, 24 Canada: Atlantic, 25, 57–58, 69, 137; eastern , 27, 37, 57, 134, 140, 177 Carter, Harold, 93 Cash, Johnny, 62, 68 Cattle Call, 171 Chinnock, Bill, v, 168 Chinnock, Terry, xi, 99, 102–3 Christian, Charlie, 69, 72 Circle C Ranch Boys, 55, 104, 121, 141–43, 156 Clark, Jewel, 95, 97, 104 200 index Clark, Yodeling Slim, 7, 28, 47, 50, 53, 56, 63, 67, 74–75, 79, 83, 95, 97, 104, 128, 130, 139, 147, 152, 156, 167, 171–73, 176–79, 181–82 Cleaves, Slaid, 173–74 Cline, Patsy, 62, 99 CMA (Country Music Association), 1, 15, 18–20, 27, 34–35, 65, 170 Cody, Betty, 7, 28–29, 50, 58–62, 70, 74, 76, 81, 87, 99–100, 125–26, 129, 134, 137–39, 143–44, 149, 153–55, 157, 160, 162, 165, 167, 172, 175, 182 Connors, Tom, 186 Cormier, Joe, 186 country and western, 18–19, 27 Country and Western Event, 114, 118 Country and Western Music Academy. See Academy of Country Music country format radio, 16, 19–20, 27, 34, 36, 170–71 Country Masters, 183–85 country music: alternative, 32, 85, 171–72, 175, 180; authentic, 2, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23–25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35–36, 42, 131–32, 134, 168–70; community, 172; contemporary, 175–76; folk form of, 24, 30, 67; international industry, 25; multiethnic , 22, 139, 143; Nashville, 15, 18, 34, 67, 88, 170, 172, 174, 179; regional, 12, 20, 35, 156, 165, 170; traditional, 2, 13, 171, 174–75 Country Music Association. See CMA Country Music Disc Jockeys Association (CMDJA), 1, 18 Country Music Foundation, 19, 25 Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, ix-x, 19, 25, 30, 89, 164 country music scholarship, 15, 20–21, 25 country-rock, 83, 85, 108 Couture, Ray, 29, 58–60, 62 cowboy music, 18, 21, 47–48, 57, 61, 70, 143, 177 Curless, Dick, xv, 2, 7, 11, 28–30, 53, 61, 65, 70–71, 75–83, 86–88, 97–99, 102–3, 130, 137, 139, 152–55, 158, 160–61, 167–68, 170–73, 176–82, 184 Curless, Rick, 86 Dale, Dick, 29 Devine, Jerry, v, 42, 63 Dixon, Ray, 119–20, 127, 129, 166 Dow, Wade, xv, 175 Downeast Country Music Association, 89 Down Homers, 56–57, 70, 72–74, 95–96, 100, 116, 131, 147–48, 153, 156, 161, 166 Doyle, Larry, 45, 79 Duke and the Swingbillies, 156 Dunham, Mellie, 37–42, 52, 71, 81, 90, 175 East Boston, 83, 141 Eff, Elaine, xi Elston, Bob, 34, 88, 129–30, 165, 175 Event Records, 74, 76–79, 97 Fatool, Nick, 69...