Story: Folk, country and blues music

More links and websites

• Blue smoke

  The website of music historian Chris Bourke.

• New Zealand blues and views

  A website about blues in New Zealand.

• New Zealand Country Music Association

  The Country Music Association is a collective of clubs, organisations and people involved with country music.

• New Zealand folksong

  Lyrics, guitar chords and background to a range of New Zealand folk songs.

• NZ country music

  A New Zealand country music information site.

• Phil Garland

  The website of folk musician and folk-song collector Phil Garland.

More suggestions and sources

• Bailey, Rona, and Herbert Roth, eds. Shanties by the way: a selection of New Zealand popular songs and ballads. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1967.

• Bourke, Chris. Blue smoke: the lost dawn of popular music, 1918–1964. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2010.

• Cleveland, Les. The great New Zealand songbook. Auckland: Godwit, 1991.

• Colquhoun, Neil, ed. Song of a young country. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2010.

• Garland, Phil. Faces in the firelight: New Zealand folk song & story. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2009.

• Spittle, Gordon. Counting the beat: a history of New Zealand song. Wellington: GP Publications, 1997.