Books and Monographs
Acuff, Roy. Roy Acuff’s Nashville: The Life and Good Times of Country Music. New York: Putnam, 1983.
Barnouw, Erik. A Tower in Babel: A History of Broadcasting in the United States to 1933. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
“Broadcast Pro-File” of WSM prepared for Middle Tennessee State University. Publisher Unknown. Hollywood.
Broome, P. J., and Clay Tucker. The Other Music City: The Dance Bands and Jazz Musicians of Nashville 1920–1970. Nashville: Nashville Assn. of Musicians AFM Local 257.
Carey, Bill. Fortunes, Fiddles & Fried Chicken: A Nashville Business History. Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Press, 2000.
Cassiday, Bruce. Dinah! A Biography. New York: Franklin Watts, 1979.
Cusic, Don. Eddy Arnold: I’ll Hold You in My Heart. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1997.
Delmore, Alton, with Charles K. Wolfe, ed. The Delmore Brothers: Truth Is Stranger Than Publicity. Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press, 1995.
DeLong, Thomas. Radio Stars. New York: McFarland & Co., 1996.
Douglas, Susan. Inventing American Broadcasting 1899–1922. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Douglas, Susan. Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination. New York: Times Books, 1999.
Doyle, Don H. Nashville in the New South, 1880–1930. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Doyle, Don H. Nashville Since the 1920s. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Dunning, John. The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Eiland, William U. Nashville’s Mother Church: The History of the Ryman Auditorium. Nashville: Opryland USA Inc., 1992
Emery, Ralph, with Tom Carter. Memories: The Autobiography of Ralph Emery. New York: Macmillan, 1991.
Escott, Colin, with George Merritt and William MacEwen. Hank Williams: The Biography. New York: Little, Brown, and Co., 1994.
Fisk Jubilee Singers. In Bright Mansions. Liner notes, 2003.
Foust, James C. Big Voices of the Air: The Battle over Clear Channel Radio. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000.
Fox, Herbert. Reflections: 25 Nights at the Swan Ball. Nashville: Swan Ball Book Committee. 1989.
Guralnick, Peter. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1994.
Hall, Wade. Hell-Bent for Music: The Life of Pee Wee King. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
Harper, William. How You Played the Game: The Life of Grantland Rice. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999.
Hawkins, Martin, and Colin Escott. A Shot in the Dark: Country Music on Independent Labels, 1945–1955. Bear Family CD box set, 1999.
Hay, George D. A Story of the Grand Ole Opry. Nashville: privately published, 1945.
Hemphill, Paul. The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights & Country Music. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970.
Herr, Kinkaid. Louisville & Nashville Railroad 1850–1963. Louisville: L&N Co., 1964.
Hilmes, Michele. Radio Voices: American Broadcasting, 1922–1952. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Hurst, Jack. Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1975.
Ikard, Robert W. Near You: Francis Craig, Dean of Southern Maestros. Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Press, 1999.
Killen, Buddy, with Tom Carter. By the Seat of My Pants: My Life in Country Music. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Kingsbury, Paul, ed., Country: The Music and the Musicians. New York: Abbeville Press and Country Music Foundation, 1994.
Kingsbury, Paul, ed., The Encyclopedia of Country Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Kirby, Ed, and Jack Harris. Star-Spangled Radio. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Pub. Co., 1948.
Malone, Bill C. Country Music USA, Revised ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985.
Millard, Bob. Country Music: 70 Years of America’s Favorite Music. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Morton, David C. and Charles K. Wolfe, DeFord Bailey: A Black Star in Early Country Music. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.
Nash, Alanna. The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Pearl, Minnie, with Joan Dew. Minnie Pearl: An Autobiography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.
Peterson, Richard A. Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Pirtle, Caleb III, and Gerald Crawford. The Grandest Day. Nashville: Opryland U.S.A., 1979.
Pugh, Ronnie. Ernest Tubb: The Texas Troubadour. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996.
Rinks, Jerry W. We Shield Millions: A History of WSM 1925–1950. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee, 1993.
Rumble, John Woodruff. Fred Rose and the Development of the Nashville Music Industry, 1942–1954. Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1980.
Russell, Fred. Bury Me in an Old Press Box: Good Times and Life of a Sportswriter. New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1957.
Sanjeck, Russell, and David Sanjeck. The American Popular Music Business in the 20th Century. Oxford University Press, 1984.
Schlappi, Elizabeth. Roy Acuff: The Smoky Mountain Boy. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Co., 1978.
Shapiro, Mitchell E. Radio Network Prime Time Programming, 1926–1967. McFarland & Co., 2002.
Shelton, Aaron. Unpublished autobiography, circa 1990.
Sherman, Joe. A Thousand Voices: The Story of Nashville’s Union Station. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1987.
Stamper, Powell. The National Life Story. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968.
Terkel, Studs. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970.
Trott, Walter. The Country Music World of Charlie Lamb. Nashville: Infac Publications, 1986.
Wolfe, Charles. A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry. Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.
“WSM Remembers.” Radio series produced for WSM by Kyle Cantrell, circa 2000.
Articles
Cherry, Hugh. “The R&R Interview: Irving C. Waugh, Country Music’s Evolution in Nashville.” R&R. Jan. 27, 1978.
“Craig, Giant of Insurance Industry, Dies.” Nashville Tennessean. June 27, 1969.
Cunniff, Albert. “Muscle Behind the Music: The Life and Times of Jim Denny.” Journal of Country Music. Vol. 11, nos. 1–3.
Hieronymus, Clara. “Edwin Craig Had an Idea Back in ’25.” Tennessean. Oct. 15, 1967.
Peterson, Richard A. “Single-Industry Firm to Conglomerate Synergistics: Alternative Selling Strategies for Selling Insurance and Country Music.” Anthologized in Growing Metropolis: Aspects of Development in Nashville. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1975.
Stone, Harry. “Looking Back.” Country Music Who’s Who. Year unknown.
“We Pay Our Respects to Edwin Wilson Craig.” Broadcasting. Mar. 15, 1936.
Wolfe, Charles K. “The Air Castle of the South: 75 Years of WSM.” Bluegrass Unlimited. Dec. 2000.
Wolfe, Charles K. WSM chronology prepared for Beth Thompson, Opryland. Feb. 20, 1994.
Wolfe, Charles, K. “The WSM Story.” Inside WSM. Fourth quarter 2000.
Archives and Collections
Personal papers of John H. DeWitt Jr.
Collected papers of William D. Jackson. Nashville Public Library.
Nashville Banner archive. Nashville Public Library.
Francis Craig Papers. Special Collections Section, Jean and Alexander Heard Library. Vanderbilt University, Nashville.
WSM Radio & TV file. Special Collections Section, Jean and Alexander Heard Library. Vanderbilt University, Nashville.
Gaylord Entertainment archives, Nashville.
Library of American Broadcasting (LAB). University of Maryland, College Park.
Country Music Foundation (CMF), Nashville.
National Archives. College Park, Maryland.