• Acknowledgments • Introduction • Harnessing the Echo • “Way Out There”: Hillbilly, Blues and Jazz • “Blue Shadows on the Trail”: Space and Place in the Imagined West • “And as the Sun Sinks Slowly in the West . . .”: Sobbing Guitars, Distant Horizons and the Acoustics of Otherness • “How Near, How Far?”: Inner Voices, Weird Space and the Ghostly West • “Off the Wall”: Blues Recording at Sun and Chess Studios, 1947–1954
• “Train I Ride . . .”: Rock ’n’ Roll Echo • “Train Kept a Rollin’”: Popular Music’s New Territories • Conclusion: “Race with the Devil”
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Discography
• Index