The Pastor Chefs believe that a couple who prays together, reads together, and cooks together will have a stronger and more lasting relationship. This book is 40 days of activities encouraging married couples to make their relationships a priority.Do you sometimes feel disconnected from your mate? Perhaps the hustle and bustle of life just gets in the way of spending quality time with the one you love. The Pastor Chefs 40 Day Marriage Challenge is the perfect recipe for doing somet...

How to Fight the Good Fight As you read this book, you will gain wisdom, discernment and understanding. Bill and Pam share their life experiences that will equip you. Earth is a battle field between seen and unseen forces of good and evil. The evil supernatural is real and can only be dealt with in a spiritual way. As Hosea, the biblical writer stated, "My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge" (Hosea 4:6). The Malones no longer want to see God's people losing battles with supernatur...

A Good Marriage is worth the Challenge!From the authors of Pastor Chefs 40 Day Marriage Challenge: Creating Quality Time in Your Marriage by Creating Quality Food in Your Kitchen, comes a new challenge: the 21-Day No Complaining Marriage Challenge.Have you fallen in a rut where your first instinct is to complain? Do you want help getting out of that marriage-defeating pattern? This challenge is guaranteed to bring back the clarity and comm...

How to Fight the Good FightAs you read this book, you will gain wisdom, discernment and understanding. Bill and Pam share their life experiences that will equip you. Earth is a battle field between seen and unseen forces of good and evil. The evil supernatural is real and can only be dealt with in a spiritual way. As Hosea, the biblical writer stated, “My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6).The Malones no longer want to see God’s people losing battles w...

The South—an inspiration for songwriters, a source of styles, and the birthplace of many of the nation's greatest musicians—plays a defining role in American musical history. It is impossible to think of American music of the past century without such southern-derived forms as ragtime, jazz, blues, country, bluegrass, gospel, rhythm and blues, Cajun, zydeco, Tejano, rock'n'roll, and even rap. Musicians and listeners around the world have made these vibrant styles their own.Sout...

“Fifty years after its first publication, Country Music USA still stands as the most authoritative history of this uniquely American art form. Here are the stories of the people who made country music into such an integral part of our nation’s culture. We feel lucky to have had Bill Malone as an indispensable guide in making our PBS documentary; you should, too.”—Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, Country Music: An American Family StoryFrom reviews of previous ed...

For over fifty years, Bill C. Malone has researched and written about the history of country music. Today he is celebrated as the foremost authority on this distinctly American genre. This new collection brings together his significant article-length work from a variety of sources, including essays, book chapters, and record liner notes. Sing Me Back Home distills a lifetime of thinking about country and southern roots music.Malone offers the heartfelt story of his own wor...

A musician, documentarian, scholar, and one of the founding members of the influential folk revival group the New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger (1933–2009) spent more than fifty years collecting, performing, and commemorating the culture and folk music of white and black southerners, which he called “music from the true vine.” In this fascinating biography, Bill Malone explores the life and musical contributions of folk artist Seeger, son of musicologists Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger...

**" . . . Bobbie and Bill Malone secure the Riders’ rightful place in country music history, recounting the story of their remarkable journey, which simultaneously entertained millions of people and revived the venerable American tradition of the singing cowboy.”—Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, creators of PBS's Country Music**For almost five decades, the band known as Riders In The Sky (“America’s Favorite Cowboys”) has entertained and delighted audiences in Nashvill...

For five decades, as a singer, musician, songwriter, and producer, Tim O’Brien has ceaselessly explored the vast American musical landscape. While Appalachia and Ireland eventually became facets of the defining myth surrounding him and his music, he has digested a broad array of roots styles, reshaping them to his own purposes. Award-winning biographer Bobbie Malone and premier country music historian Bill C. Malone have teamed again, this time to chronicle O’Brien’s career and trace the a...

“The story of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant is the story of towering artistic achievement wrapped in a love story so deep and so complete that the two are their own country song. Bobbie and Bill Malone are precisely the right match to tell this tale of love and genius.”—Ken Burns, Director, Country MusicYou might not know the names of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, but you know their music. Arriving in Nashville in 1950, the songwriting duo became the first fu...

Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk genres, bluegrass, country, jazz, gospel, rock, blues, and southern hip-hop. This much-anticipated volume in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates an essential element of southern life and makes available for the first time a stand-alone reference to the music and music makers of the American Sou...