Author: Brian T. Atkinson
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623497787
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Texas singer-songwriter Hayes Carll declared, “Ray would be at the top of the list if I were gonna read about somebody’s life.” In The Messenger: The Songwriting Legacy of Ray Wylie Hubbard, author, journalist, and music producer Brian T. Atkinson demonstrates why Carll and so many others hold Ray Wylie Hubbard in such high regard. Atkinson takes readers into and beyond the seedy bar in Red River, New Mexico, where the incident occurred that inspired Hubbard’s most famous song, “Redneck Mother.” Hubbard tells the stories, and Atkinson enlists other musicians to expound on the nature of his abiding influence as songwriter, musician, and unflinching teller of uncomfortable truths. Featuring interviews with well-known artists such as Eric Church, Steve Earle, Kinky Friedman, Chris Robinson, and Jerry Jeff Walker, and also mining the insights of up-and-comers such as Elizabeth Cook, Jaren Johnston, Ben Kweller, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and Paul Thorn, The Messenger makes clear why so many musicians across a wide spectrum admire Ray Wylie Hubbard. Readers will also learn why “Redneck Mother,” the song that put Hubbard on the map for most listeners, is also a curse, of sorts, in its diminution of both his spiritual depth as a lyricist and his multidimensional musical reach. As Hubbard himself says, “The song probably should have never been written, let alone recorded, let alone recorded again.. . . the most important part of songwriting is right after you write a song, ask yourself, ‘Can I sing this for twenty-five years?’” Atkinson’s work makes a convincing case that Ray Wylie Hubbard’s truest and most lasting contributions will long outlive him. And, with a couple of good breaks, they may even outlive “Redneck Mother.”
The Messenger
Author: Brian T. Atkinson
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623497787
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Texas singer-songwriter Hayes Carll declared, “Ray would be at the top of the list if I were gonna read about somebody’s life.” In The Messenger: The Songwriting Legacy of Ray Wylie Hubbard, author, journalist, and music producer Brian T. Atkinson demonstrates why Carll and so many others hold Ray Wylie Hubbard in such high regard. Atkinson takes readers into and beyond the seedy bar in Red River, New Mexico, where the incident occurred that inspired Hubbard’s most famous song, “Redneck Mother.” Hubbard tells the stories, and Atkinson enlists other musicians to expound on the nature of his abiding influence as songwriter, musician, and unflinching teller of uncomfortable truths. Featuring interviews with well-known artists such as Eric Church, Steve Earle, Kinky Friedman, Chris Robinson, and Jerry Jeff Walker, and also mining the insights of up-and-comers such as Elizabeth Cook, Jaren Johnston, Ben Kweller, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and Paul Thorn, The Messenger makes clear why so many musicians across a wide spectrum admire Ray Wylie Hubbard. Readers will also learn why “Redneck Mother,” the song that put Hubbard on the map for most listeners, is also a curse, of sorts, in its diminution of both his spiritual depth as a lyricist and his multidimensional musical reach. As Hubbard himself says, “The song probably should have never been written, let alone recorded, let alone recorded again.. . . the most important part of songwriting is right after you write a song, ask yourself, ‘Can I sing this for twenty-five years?’” Atkinson’s work makes a convincing case that Ray Wylie Hubbard’s truest and most lasting contributions will long outlive him. And, with a couple of good breaks, they may even outlive “Redneck Mother.”
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623497787
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Texas singer-songwriter Hayes Carll declared, “Ray would be at the top of the list if I were gonna read about somebody’s life.” In The Messenger: The Songwriting Legacy of Ray Wylie Hubbard, author, journalist, and music producer Brian T. Atkinson demonstrates why Carll and so many others hold Ray Wylie Hubbard in such high regard. Atkinson takes readers into and beyond the seedy bar in Red River, New Mexico, where the incident occurred that inspired Hubbard’s most famous song, “Redneck Mother.” Hubbard tells the stories, and Atkinson enlists other musicians to expound on the nature of his abiding influence as songwriter, musician, and unflinching teller of uncomfortable truths. Featuring interviews with well-known artists such as Eric Church, Steve Earle, Kinky Friedman, Chris Robinson, and Jerry Jeff Walker, and also mining the insights of up-and-comers such as Elizabeth Cook, Jaren Johnston, Ben Kweller, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and Paul Thorn, The Messenger makes clear why so many musicians across a wide spectrum admire Ray Wylie Hubbard. Readers will also learn why “Redneck Mother,” the song that put Hubbard on the map for most listeners, is also a curse, of sorts, in its diminution of both his spiritual depth as a lyricist and his multidimensional musical reach. As Hubbard himself says, “The song probably should have never been written, let alone recorded, let alone recorded again.. . . the most important part of songwriting is right after you write a song, ask yourself, ‘Can I sing this for twenty-five years?’” Atkinson’s work makes a convincing case that Ray Wylie Hubbard’s truest and most lasting contributions will long outlive him. And, with a couple of good breaks, they may even outlive “Redneck Mother.”
The Song Messenger of the North-West
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Song of the Messenger
Author: Mary C. Courtwright
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
ISBN: 9781419663680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This heart-warming, coming of age tale is the story of one suburban teenage boy's commitment to family, diversity, and living with courage.
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
ISBN: 9781419663680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This heart-warming, coming of age tale is the story of one suburban teenage boy's commitment to family, diversity, and living with courage.
Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Catalog of Music Rolls for the Apollo Piano
Author: Melville Clark Piano Co., Chicago
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Category : Player piano rolls
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
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Category : Player piano rolls
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Song Index
Author: Minnie Earl Sears
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Category : Songs
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Category : Songs
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Messenger of Song
Author: Mark Turner
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483639320
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
The book is a compilation of poems and songs written over many years. Mark has traveled over much of the world while writing verse. He writes almost every day and considers his writing a gift from God. Although, much of the verse is evangelistic in theme intended to lead souls to heaven many different subjects are covered inluding issues like gun control, The Good of the Gun, war, Blood for Oil, greed, Monetary Man, homelessness, Cosmos Calamity and death, Before Their Time, as well as many other subjects. As this book includes poems and songs written over many years the tone, temperament and prospective vary greatly. Peace and Love
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483639320
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
The book is a compilation of poems and songs written over many years. Mark has traveled over much of the world while writing verse. He writes almost every day and considers his writing a gift from God. Although, much of the verse is evangelistic in theme intended to lead souls to heaven many different subjects are covered inluding issues like gun control, The Good of the Gun, war, Blood for Oil, greed, Monetary Man, homelessness, Cosmos Calamity and death, Before Their Time, as well as many other subjects. As this book includes poems and songs written over many years the tone, temperament and prospective vary greatly. Peace and Love
Song Index
Author: Phyllis Crawford
Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson Company
ISBN:
Category : Songs
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson Company
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Category : Songs
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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New-Church Messenger
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Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Wicked Messenger
Author: Mike Marqusee
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609801156
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Bob Dylan’s abrupt abandonment of overtly political songwriting in the mid-1960s caused an uproar among critics and fans. In Wicked Messenger, acclaimed cultural-political commentator Mike Marqusee advances the new thesis that Dylan did not drop politics from his songs but changed the manner of his critique to address the changing political and cultural climate and, more importantly, his own evolving aesthetic. Wicked Messenger is also a riveting political history of the United States in the 1960s. Tracing the development of the decade’s political and cultural dissent movements, Marqusee shows how their twists and turns were anticipated in the poetic aesthetic—anarchic, unaccountable, contradictory, punk— of Dylan's mid-sixties albums, as well as in his recent artistic ventures in Chronicles, Vol. I and Masked and Anonymous. Dylan’s anguished, self-obsessed, prickly artistic evolution, Marqusee asserts, was a deeply creative response to a deeply disturbing situation. "He can no longer tell the story straight," Marqusee concludes, "because any story told straight is a false one."
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609801156
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Bob Dylan’s abrupt abandonment of overtly political songwriting in the mid-1960s caused an uproar among critics and fans. In Wicked Messenger, acclaimed cultural-political commentator Mike Marqusee advances the new thesis that Dylan did not drop politics from his songs but changed the manner of his critique to address the changing political and cultural climate and, more importantly, his own evolving aesthetic. Wicked Messenger is also a riveting political history of the United States in the 1960s. Tracing the development of the decade’s political and cultural dissent movements, Marqusee shows how their twists and turns were anticipated in the poetic aesthetic—anarchic, unaccountable, contradictory, punk— of Dylan's mid-sixties albums, as well as in his recent artistic ventures in Chronicles, Vol. I and Masked and Anonymous. Dylan’s anguished, self-obsessed, prickly artistic evolution, Marqusee asserts, was a deeply creative response to a deeply disturbing situation. "He can no longer tell the story straight," Marqusee concludes, "because any story told straight is a false one."