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Colin Escott (born 31 August 1949) is a British music historian and author specializing in early U.S. rock and roll and country music. His works include a biography of Hank Williams, histories of Sun Records and The Grand Ole Opry, liner notes for more than 500 albums and compilations, and major contributions to stage and television productions.
Toronto-based discographer Colin Escott probes the roots of Rock by analyzing a variety of performers who soared (usually only once), crashed, and burned—but sometimes lived to describe their exciting flights.
Colin Escott has 29 books on Goodreads with 4867 ratings. Colin Escott’s most popular book is Hank Williams: The Biography.
Colin Escott is codirector and cowriter of the forth-coming two-hour PBS/BBC television documentary on Hank Williams, set to broadcast in spring 2004, and coauthor of "Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway.- HANK WILLIAMS was the third-prize winner of the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award.
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Colin Escott is the author of several books on American music, including a biography of Hank Williams and the book that accompanies the recent BBC series Lost Highway: The Story Of Country Music.
Starting with a 1983 album by Frankie Miller, Colin Escott went on to work on many LPs, CDs, boxed sets, and DVDs for Bear Family, most recently Joe Turner's Complete Boss of the Blues in 2020. Born in England, Colin lives near Nashville.
Nov 10, 2015 · Colin Escott's enthralling, definitive biograph -- now the basis of the major motion picture I Saw the Light -- vividly details the singer's stunning rise and his spectacular decline, revealing much that was previously unknown or hidden about the life of this country music legend.
