As Dolly Parton famously said, "People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. Some have stylists on the tour bus and others rely on God and hair-spray. Some follow the trends and others set them.
"The higher the hair, the closer to god." From mullets to mustaches and teased hair to bobs, country singers each have their own distinct looks which enhance their performance and image.
Country music's greatest mullets, bobs, beehives, and bouffants collected together in one entertaining volume, illustrated with dozens of color and black-and-white photographs. “The men weren’t really stepping out of their social norms. “Even Willie Nelson had his hair cut short at that time,” Duvall says. Bakersfield artist Buck Owens opted for a clean-cut crop. Musically, country saw two styles emerge: the more natural Bakersfield Sound, and the sleek production of the Nashville Sound. The 1960s straddled the line between the prim-and-proper 1950s and the wild-and-free 1970s. In Duvall’s book, Country Music Hair, the author and former CMT Radio producer interviews singers, hairstylists, and makeup artists to span the decades-complete with dozens of photographs-of the iconic bouffants, bobs, wigs, and, yes, mullets that have crowned country music’s chart-toppers. And that’s where hair-especially hair like Dolly Parton’s-comes into play.” Though trends have evolved from the clean-cut 1950s to the sky-high hair of the 1980s, what country artists wear on their heads is an enduring topic of fascination for fans. “Or, it can be escapist, a fantasy of who we want to be. 
“More than any other genre, country music can be relatable, like when a song is about working on a farm or going out on a Friday night,” the Nashville-based music writer Erin Duvall says. A Nashville writer aims to fix that by showing just how iconic country singers’ hairstyles have been over the decades.
And, in particular, their influence on fashion. Although their music speaks to the lives of millions of people, country singers don’t always get a fair shake when it comes to their wider influence on American popular culture.
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