Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland

“This book is, in a sense, a folk history of the music cultures of this area, and one full of rich detail and cultural surprises.” —Charles K. Wolfe

The bi-state Upper Cumberland region—as discussed in William Lynwood Montell’s new book, Grassroots in the Upper Cumberland—includes eight counties in Tennessee (Clay, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, and Putnam) and eight counties in Kentucky (Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe, Pulaski, Russell, and Wayne). It i...