Author: Ellis Nassour
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569764425
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Earthy, sexy, and vivacious, the life of beloved country singer, Patsy Cline, who soared from obscurity to international fame to tragic death in just thirty short years, is explored in colorful and poignant detail. An innovator?and even a hell-raiser?Cline broke all the boys' club barriers of Nashville's music business in the 1950s and brought a new Nashville sound to the nation with her pop hits and torch ballads like ?Walking After Midnight," ?I Fall to Pieces? and "Crazy." She is the subject of a major Hollywood movie and countless articles, and her albums are still selling 45 years after her death. Ellis Nassour was the very first to write about Cline and did so with the cooperation of the stars who knew and loved her?including Jimmy Dean, Jan Howard, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Roger Miller, Dottie West, and Faron Young. He was the only writer to interview Cline's mother and husbands. This updated edition features not only a complete discography and a host of never-before-published photographs, but includes an afterword that details controversial claims about her birth, the battle between Cline's siblings for her possessions, the amazing influence Cline had on a new generation of singers and, in Cline's own words from letters to a devoted friend, her excitement as her career soared to new heights and her marriage descended to new depths.
Honky Tonk Angel
Author: Ellis Nassour
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569764425
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Earthy, sexy, and vivacious, the life of beloved country singer, Patsy Cline, who soared from obscurity to international fame to tragic death in just thirty short years, is explored in colorful and poignant detail. An innovator?and even a hell-raiser?Cline broke all the boys' club barriers of Nashville's music business in the 1950s and brought a new Nashville sound to the nation with her pop hits and torch ballads like ?Walking After Midnight," ?I Fall to Pieces? and "Crazy." She is the subject of a major Hollywood movie and countless articles, and her albums are still selling 45 years after her death. Ellis Nassour was the very first to write about Cline and did so with the cooperation of the stars who knew and loved her?including Jimmy Dean, Jan Howard, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Roger Miller, Dottie West, and Faron Young. He was the only writer to interview Cline's mother and husbands. This updated edition features not only a complete discography and a host of never-before-published photographs, but includes an afterword that details controversial claims about her birth, the battle between Cline's siblings for her possessions, the amazing influence Cline had on a new generation of singers and, in Cline's own words from letters to a devoted friend, her excitement as her career soared to new heights and her marriage descended to new depths.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569764425
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Earthy, sexy, and vivacious, the life of beloved country singer, Patsy Cline, who soared from obscurity to international fame to tragic death in just thirty short years, is explored in colorful and poignant detail. An innovator?and even a hell-raiser?Cline broke all the boys' club barriers of Nashville's music business in the 1950s and brought a new Nashville sound to the nation with her pop hits and torch ballads like ?Walking After Midnight," ?I Fall to Pieces? and "Crazy." She is the subject of a major Hollywood movie and countless articles, and her albums are still selling 45 years after her death. Ellis Nassour was the very first to write about Cline and did so with the cooperation of the stars who knew and loved her?including Jimmy Dean, Jan Howard, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Roger Miller, Dottie West, and Faron Young. He was the only writer to interview Cline's mother and husbands. This updated edition features not only a complete discography and a host of never-before-published photographs, but includes an afterword that details controversial claims about her birth, the battle between Cline's siblings for her possessions, the amazing influence Cline had on a new generation of singers and, in Cline's own words from letters to a devoted friend, her excitement as her career soared to new heights and her marriage descended to new depths.
The Last of the Honky-tonk Angels
Author: Marsha Moyer
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060081643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Lucy Hatch's boyfriend shocks her when he receives a surprise visit from his daughter, Denny, whose existence he had kept hidden, as they all embark on a life full of new experiences, revelations, and opportunities.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060081643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Lucy Hatch's boyfriend shocks her when he receives a surprise visit from his daughter, Denny, whose existence he had kept hidden, as they all embark on a life full of new experiences, revelations, and opportunities.
Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-tonk Angels
Author: Kristine M. McCusker
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252075242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A collective biography of the women who shaped early country and western music
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252075242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A collective biography of the women who shaped early country and western music
Honky Tonk Angels
Author: Bernie Nelson
Publisher: Heritage Builders
ISBN: 9781942603603
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Honkytonk Angels describes the inside workings of both the country music world, and the presense of God's hand upon some of the biggest songs in country music's history. With a birds eye view Bernie Nelson shares rare glimpes of the creation and journeys of these songs. Being a 30 plus year respected veteran of the famous Music Row, Bernie has gained the trust of many of Nashvilles biggest names so as to tell the stories like many of them have never been shared before. Honkytonk Angels shows the undeniable workings of God deeply rooted into the streets of Music City USA. Having been a close participant in many of these stories due to his relationship with the writers,producers,songpluggers and artists himself, the stories bring you closer then ever to their rich history. Other stories involving God's angels moving about there were told and entrusted to Bernie by those closest to the stories directly to Bernie himself. The book is intriguing, humorous historical and majorly insightful. Most of all it shows the truly amazing grace that is required to take a song from the legal pad or whiskey stained bar napkin in some cases to the Country Music Hall of Fame itself. God loves music. He is constantly proving that .Through these beautiful stories brought together by the crafted writer that Bernie is ,readers will feel a closeness to the songs like never before. Take a ride along to a songwriting session with Bernie.Read what it was like the day the song was started. Many of those songs took crazy paths to reach the status that they are today. Honkytonk Angels will both enlighten you to the inside history of the songs but also deepen the belief that without Gods helping hand they would not have had a snowballs chance in . . . well . . . heck you'll just have to read the book to see how they turned out.
Publisher: Heritage Builders
ISBN: 9781942603603
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Honkytonk Angels describes the inside workings of both the country music world, and the presense of God's hand upon some of the biggest songs in country music's history. With a birds eye view Bernie Nelson shares rare glimpes of the creation and journeys of these songs. Being a 30 plus year respected veteran of the famous Music Row, Bernie has gained the trust of many of Nashvilles biggest names so as to tell the stories like many of them have never been shared before. Honkytonk Angels shows the undeniable workings of God deeply rooted into the streets of Music City USA. Having been a close participant in many of these stories due to his relationship with the writers,producers,songpluggers and artists himself, the stories bring you closer then ever to their rich history. Other stories involving God's angels moving about there were told and entrusted to Bernie by those closest to the stories directly to Bernie himself. The book is intriguing, humorous historical and majorly insightful. Most of all it shows the truly amazing grace that is required to take a song from the legal pad or whiskey stained bar napkin in some cases to the Country Music Hall of Fame itself. God loves music. He is constantly proving that .Through these beautiful stories brought together by the crafted writer that Bernie is ,readers will feel a closeness to the songs like never before. Take a ride along to a songwriting session with Bernie.Read what it was like the day the song was started. Many of those songs took crazy paths to reach the status that they are today. Honkytonk Angels will both enlighten you to the inside history of the songs but also deepen the belief that without Gods helping hand they would not have had a snowballs chance in . . . well . . . heck you'll just have to read the book to see how they turned out.
Woman Walk the Line
Author: Holly Gleason
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477314903
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it’s Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it’s the humanity beneath the music that resonates. Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly’s Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn’s girl-power anthem “The Pill”; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt’s unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on a post-9/11 survivor on the run; Emmylou Harris offers a gateway through paralyzing grief; and Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it. Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who make them, Woman Walk the Line is a very personal collection of essays from some of America’s most intriguing women writers. It speaks to the ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in various states of grace and imperfection—and ultimately how music transforms not just the person making it, but also the listener.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477314903
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it’s Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it’s the humanity beneath the music that resonates. Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly’s Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn’s girl-power anthem “The Pill”; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt’s unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on a post-9/11 survivor on the run; Emmylou Harris offers a gateway through paralyzing grief; and Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it. Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who make them, Woman Walk the Line is a very personal collection of essays from some of America’s most intriguing women writers. It speaks to the ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in various states of grace and imperfection—and ultimately how music transforms not just the person making it, but also the listener.
Honky Tonk
Author: Henry Horenstein
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393073669
Category : Country music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Newly expanded to include work from recent years, Honky Tonk is as evocative and irresistible as the music itself.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393073669
Category : Country music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Newly expanded to include work from recent years, Honky Tonk is as evocative and irresistible as the music itself.
Real Life Rock
Author: Greil Marcus
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300196644
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
The Washington Post hails Greil Marcus as our greatest cultural critic. Writing in the London Review of Books, D. D. Guttenplan calls him probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson. For nearly thirty years, he has written a remarkable column that has migrated from the Village Voice to Artforum, Salon, City Pages, Interview, and The Believer and currently appears in the Barnes & Noble Review. It has been a laboratory where Marcus has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enormous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements, teasing out from the welter of everyday objects what amounts to a de facto theory of cultural transmission. Published to complement the paperback edition of The History of Rock & Roll in Ten Songs, Real Life Rock reveals the critic in full: direct, erudite, funny, fierce, vivid, astute, uninhibited, and possessing an unerring instinct for art and fraud. The result is an indispensable volume packed with startling arguments and casual brilliance.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300196644
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
The Washington Post hails Greil Marcus as our greatest cultural critic. Writing in the London Review of Books, D. D. Guttenplan calls him probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson. For nearly thirty years, he has written a remarkable column that has migrated from the Village Voice to Artforum, Salon, City Pages, Interview, and The Believer and currently appears in the Barnes & Noble Review. It has been a laboratory where Marcus has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enormous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements, teasing out from the welter of everyday objects what amounts to a de facto theory of cultural transmission. Published to complement the paperback edition of The History of Rock & Roll in Ten Songs, Real Life Rock reveals the critic in full: direct, erudite, funny, fierce, vivid, astute, uninhibited, and possessing an unerring instinct for art and fraud. The result is an indispensable volume packed with startling arguments and casual brilliance.
Honky Tonk Girl
Author: Loretta Lynn
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307594890
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
One of the most beloved country music stars of all time gives us the first collection of her lyrics and, in her own words, tells the stories that inspired her most popular songs, such as "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin'," and, of course, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl." Loretta Lynn's rags-to-riches story--from her hardscrabble childhood in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, through her marriage to Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn when she was thirteen, to her dramatic rise to the top of the charts--has resonated with countless fans throughout her more than fifty-year career. Now, the anecdotes she shares here give us deeper insight into her life, her collaborations, her influences, and how she pushed the boundaries of country music by discussing issues important to working-class women, even when they were considered taboo. Readers will also get a rare look at the singer's handwritten lyrics and at personal photographs from her childhood, of her family, and of her performing life. Honky Tonk Girl: A Life in Lyrics is one more way for Lynn's fans--those who already love her and those who soon will--to know the heart and mind of this remarkable woman.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307594890
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
One of the most beloved country music stars of all time gives us the first collection of her lyrics and, in her own words, tells the stories that inspired her most popular songs, such as "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin'," and, of course, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl." Loretta Lynn's rags-to-riches story--from her hardscrabble childhood in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, through her marriage to Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn when she was thirteen, to her dramatic rise to the top of the charts--has resonated with countless fans throughout her more than fifty-year career. Now, the anecdotes she shares here give us deeper insight into her life, her collaborations, her influences, and how she pushed the boundaries of country music by discussing issues important to working-class women, even when they were considered taboo. Readers will also get a rare look at the singer's handwritten lyrics and at personal photographs from her childhood, of her family, and of her performing life. Honky Tonk Girl: A Life in Lyrics is one more way for Lynn's fans--those who already love her and those who soon will--to know the heart and mind of this remarkable woman.
Riding on the Edge
Author: John Hall
Publisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 9780760332764
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The story, outrageous but true, of John Hall, a Harley-riding hell raiser who founded the Pagans, a club the FBI called "the most violent criminal organization in America."
Publisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 9780760332764
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The story, outrageous but true, of John Hall, a Harley-riding hell raiser who founded the Pagans, a club the FBI called "the most violent criminal organization in America."
Southern Comfort
Author: Ciana Stone
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519510679
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Homicide detective Patrick "Tick" Kelly turned his back on the world the day his wife and children were murdered. He holed up in a beach house on Mango Key, Florida, drowning his grief in Jack Daniels. Now that Tick is sober and a bestselling author, his brother Pete keeps trying to drag him back to the land of the living. Special agent Kate Rush has resigned from her DEA job and returned to Miami. She and a fellow ex-agent are asked to relocate to Mango Key to investigate a human trafficking ring. At first, the Kelly brothers are suspected of involvement, but Kate is sure Tick poses no danger-except for the slow-burning gaze that makes her breath catch and her heart race."--BOOK COVER
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519510679
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Homicide detective Patrick "Tick" Kelly turned his back on the world the day his wife and children were murdered. He holed up in a beach house on Mango Key, Florida, drowning his grief in Jack Daniels. Now that Tick is sober and a bestselling author, his brother Pete keeps trying to drag him back to the land of the living. Special agent Kate Rush has resigned from her DEA job and returned to Miami. She and a fellow ex-agent are asked to relocate to Mango Key to investigate a human trafficking ring. At first, the Kelly brothers are suspected of involvement, but Kate is sure Tick poses no danger-except for the slow-burning gaze that makes her breath catch and her heart race."--BOOK COVER