Emmylou Harris & Rosanne Cash Subject of New ‘In-Law Country’ Book
by Best Classic Bands Staff
The cover of the new book, In-Law Country: How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and Their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music, 1968-1985.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has published a new book, In-Law Country: How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and Their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music, 1968-1985, by Geoffrey Himes.
The book examines a musical movement of outsiders who, in time, became influential insiders. Weaving together biography and musical analysis, author Himes explores how a group of artists, musicians and producers helped change the sounds and stories of country music, melding traditional stylings with fresh innovations and perspectives. Through many interviews and in-depth research, the book attempts to define this previously unnamed movement, delving into the lives and seminal works of Harris, Cash, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, Gram Parsons, Ricky Skaggs, Clarence White, Townes Van Zandt and others. The book was simultaneously issued in hardcover and paperback in December 2024 and is available in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here.
Himes has won numerous awards for writing about music in the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, New York Times, No Depression, Downbeat, Paste and many other publications since 1975. His book on Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A., was published in 2005. He has written liner notes for albums by Rosanne Cash, Merle Haggard, Marty Stuart and more.
Watch Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash and Lucinda WIlliams perform “Pancho & Lefty” at the Country Music Hall of Fame on September 3, 2015
Related: Our Album Rewind of Emmylou Harris’ Evangeline
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