Three Americana Music Classics IN IT FOR www.JimRooneyProductions.com THE LONG RUN BABY, LET ME FOLLOW YOU DOWN a musical odyssey BOSSMEN is a classic in the history of American popu- Every field has its lar culture. The book tells the story of the “bossman”–the one who community in Cambridge, Massa- sets the style and makes chusetts, from its beginnings in living rooms the rules. In bluegrass and early the and Harvard Square coffeehouses in the late man was Bill Monroe. In 1950s to the heyday of the folk music revival The memoir of the songwriter and Grammy- the world of urban blues, in the early 1960s. Co-written with Eric winning record producer the man was Muddy Wa- Rooney's kaleidoscopic first-hand account of Von Schmidt more than five decades of success as a per- ters. Both grew up in re- The Illustrated Story mote rural areas. Muddy former, concert promoter, songwriter, music of the Cambridge Folk Years publisher, engineer, and record producer. Waters heard field hollers, Hundreds of historical photographs, re- As witness to and participant in over a half cen- church music, jubilees, tury of music history, Rooney provides a sophis- shouts, string band music, screened for this edition, and dozens of inter- views combine to re-create the years when ticated window into American vernacular music. and the raw sound of the Following his stint as a "Hayloft Jamboree" hill- BOSSMEN: delta blues; for Bill Mon- Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and a lively band of billy singer in the mid-1950s, Rooney managed Bill Monroe and roe it was square dance Cambridge folksingers led a generation in the Muddy Waters Cambridge's Club 47, a catalyst of the ‘60’s folk music, hymns, old country rediscovery of American folk music. Com- music boom. He soon moved to the Newport ballads and the fiddling of piled by two musicians who were active par- Folk Festival as talent coordinator and director his Uncle Pen Vandiver. where he had a front row seat to Dylan "going ticipants in the Cambridge Musicians who passed electric." through their bands went folk scene, the volume In the 1970s Rooney's odyssey continued in on to form bands of their documents a special time Nashville where he began engineering and pro- own, giving rise to the in United States culture ducing records. His work helped alternative worlds of Bluegrass and when the honesty and vi- country music gain a foothold in Music City and culminated in Grammy nominations for singer- Chicago Blues. But this is tality of traditional folk more than a book about songwriters , Iris Dement, and Nanci music were combined with music; it is a book about Griffith. Later in his career he was a key link black and white America. the raw power of urban connecting Nashville to Ireland's folk music In microcosm, it is almost blues and the high energy scene. a history of this country; of electric rock and roll to and it sets up striking create a new American E-BOOKS UPDATES comparisons that cut deep BABY, LET ME popular music. Amazon.com facebook.com/ into our heritage and FOLLOW YOU DOWN: Illustrated Story of the Barnes & Noble jimrooneyproducer ways. Cambridge Folk Years Kobo Google Play