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Date: Saturday, February 15, 2025
Time: 1:30 p.m. ET
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
An RSVP isn’t necessary to attend, but it helps us to know how many people to expect. There is no cost to attend.
Respected author, poet, journalist and songwriter Geoffrey Himes will give a brief talk about book signing at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum.
Geoffrey Himes wrote about music on a weekly basis in The Washington Post from 1977 to 2019 and has served as a senior editor at No Depression and Paste magazines. He has also written
about pop music, jazz, theater, film, art and books for Rolling Stone, Oxford American, New York Times, Smithsonian, National Public Radio, Jazz Times, Downbeat, and other outlets. He
has been honored for Music Feature Writing by the Deems Taylor/ASCAP Awards (2003, 2005, 2014 and 2016), the New Orleans Press Awards, the Abell Foundation Awards and the Music
Journalism Awards. His book on Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the U.S.A.,” was published in 2005, and his book on Emmylou Harris and Rosanne Cash in 2024. He is currently working on a
book about Willie Nelson.
“In-Law Country: How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and Their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music: 1968-1985,” published by the Country Music Hall of Fame, is more than just another pop music book. Author Geoffrey Himes has identified and named a major movement in country music that has been overlooked in the conventional histories of the genre. Those histories may have to be written differently going forward. This is a brisk story full of humor, contrarian opinions and excerpts from interviews with the principals: Harris, Cash, Rodney Crowell, Ricky Skaggs, Guy Clark, Brian Ahern, Sharon White, Chris Hillman and many more. But the focus is not on the usual music-book fodder: drugs, divorces and business disputes. Unlike most music books, this one focuses on music—how the distinct sound of In-Law Country grew out of California country-rock, bluegrass, Dylanesque folk music and the Carter-Cash Dynasty and evolved to differentiate itself from its predecessors and to find a large enough audience to top the country charts again and again.
