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Author: Billy Joe Shaver
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2005-03-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780292706132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWillie Nelson says, "Billy Joe Shaver may be the best songwriter alive today." And legions of fans agree. "Honky Tonk Hero" is the story of a man who not only walked on the wild side and lived to tell about it, but also got it all down in songs that many people consider to be some of the finest country songs ever written.
Author: Courtney S. Lennon
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2022-07-21
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1623499550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBilly Joe Shaver wrote nine of the ten songs included on Waylon Jennings’s landmark album Honky Tonk Heroes and played a dominant role in the origins and development of the Outlaw Country movement of the 1970s. He has been named by Ray Wylie Hubbard, alongside Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, as a member of the “holy trinity” of Texas songwriters. He has exerted a Texas-sized influence on Texas music and especially Texas singer-songwriters, and is cited as a chief inspiration by at least two generations of artists. But although his influence has been profound, Shaver has the dubious honor of becoming, according to author Courtney S. Lennon, “country music’s unsung hero.” In Live Forever: The Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe Shaver, Lennon seeks to give Shaver the recognition his prolific output deserves. She unfolds for readers the complexity and the simplicity of the artist who wrote the songs that Brian T. Atkinson, in his foreword, calls “peaceful and pure, complex and convoluted, mad and merciful”—the musician who wrote “You Just Can’t Beat Jesus Christ” and “That’s What She Said Last Night,” “Honky Tonk Heroes,” and “Get Thee Behind Me Satan.” Based on in-depth interviews with a host of notable singer-songwriters, this book reveals and celebrates the saint and the sinner, the earthy intellectual and the hard-drinking commoner, the poet and the cowboy.
Author: Tim Ghianni
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-03-15
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1493072161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe didn’t know it at the time, but Tim Ghianni’s love affair with Nashville and its musical artists began on a steamy night in 1972, when the twenty-year-old author had unsolicited help from honky-tonkin’ legends Bobby Bare and Shel Silverstein during an after-midnight “salvation” of the city. It was the beginning of a lifelong urban romance that Ghianni would pursue during a career as a journalist in Middle Tennessee, interviewing Nashville’s biggest stars and developing friendships with musicians of all kinds. With a preface by Bobby Bare and a foreword by Peter Cooper, Pilgrims, Pickers and Honky-Tonk Heroes is Tim Ghianni’s love letter and nostalgic swan song, recounting the storied musical history of Nashville as well as the dramatic changes the city has seen over the course of fifty years. The Nashville of today—with one hundred newcomers a day from places like Los Angeles and New York and fresh waves of musicians making up a new modern soundtrack—is not the same city he made his home in 1972, for better and for worse. Time changes everything, even a beloved American city, but this briskly told and warmly remembered book recounts the countless friends, adventures, and anecdotes that capture the essence of Music City across a half-century.
Author: Waylon Jennings
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2009-06-27
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0446562378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWaylon Jennings relates the story of his life as a country music star. His beginnings were poor but he became Buddy Holly's protege before sinking into drug abuse and 3 failed marriages. His success came when he met his present wife, Jessi Colter.
Author: Holly George-Warren
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2006-05-10
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 0547349505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the surprising beginnings and humble origins of the charismatic pioneers who helped shape the country-and-western scene into the influential musical empire it is today. Included among this collection of legends are Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, and more unforgettable people who changed the face of music forever!
Author: Henry Horenstein
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780393073669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNewly expanded to include work from recent years, Honky Tonk is as evocative and irresistible as the music itself.
Author: Richie Unterberger
Publisher: Rough Guides
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9781858284217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ideal handbook for every rock-n-roll pilgrim, Music USA tours the musical heritage of America, from New York to Seattle, stopping at all the shrines of sound in between. Coverage includes background on the development of local music styles, with details on clubs and venues, radio stations and record stores nationwide.
Author: Ronnie Pugh
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780822321903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaperback edition of Fall '96 title.
Author: Carolyn Brown
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781402239281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes an excerpt from the author's Honky tonk Christmas.
Author: Ace Atkins
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-07-09
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0525539484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuried secrets, dirty lies, and unbridled greed and ambition raise the stakes down South in the lauded crime series from New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins. Twenty years ago, Brandon Taylor was thought to be just another teen boy who ended his life too soon. That's what almost everyone in Tibbehah County, Mississippi, said after his body and hunting rifle were found in the Big Woods. Now two New York-based reporters show up asking Sheriff Quinn Colson questions about the Taylor case. What happened to the evidence? Where are the missing files? Who really killed Brandon? Quinn wants to help. After all, his wife Maggie was a close friend of Brandon Taylor. But Quinn was just a kid himself in 1997, and these days he's got more on his plate than twenty-year-old suspicious death. He's trying to shut down the criminal syndicate that's had a stranglehold on Tibbehah for years, trafficking drugs, stolen goods, and young women through the MidSouth. Truck stop madam Fannie Hathcock runs most of that action, and has her eyes on taking over the whole show. And then there's Senator Jimmy Vardaman, who's cut out the old political establishment riding the Syndicate's money and power--plus a hefty helping of racism and ignorance--straight to the governor's office. If he manages to get elected, the Syndicate will be untouchable. Tibbehah will be lawless. Quinn's been fighting evil and corruption since he was a kid, at home or as a U.S. Army Ranger in Afghanistan and Iraq. This time, evil may win out.
