In-Law Country: How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music, 1968

In-Law Country: How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music, 1968-1985 by Geoffrey Hines

'In-Law Country: How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music, 1968-1985' by Geoffrey Hines

“If rock was about the romanticism of youth, country was about the realities of adulthood,” writes Geoffrey Hines. His pathfinding book, In-Law Country , examines the amorphous trend growing out of the ‘60s as young country-oriented writers-singers embraced the lyrical sophistication of Bob Dylan and the beat of the British Invasion to express their own experiences.

Emmylou Harris is a central figure in his thesis, a protégé of Gram Parsons, the country-steeped guitarist who helped tilt The Byrds toward country-rock wit