It's Just the Normal Noises : Marcus, Guralnick, No Depression, and the Mystery of Americana Music (New American Canon)

Roots rock, Americana, alt country: what are they and why do they matter? Americans have been trying to answer these questions for as long as the music bearing these labels has existed. In It's Just the Normal Noises, Timothy Gray examines a wide array of writing about roots music from the 1960s to the 2000s.