The Melody of My BitterSweet Blues is a true story that candidly and graphically reveals the secrets that lurk behind domestic violence, sexual abuse, and family dysfunction.
A vivid, highly evocative memoir of one of the reigning icons of folk music, highlighting the decade of the ’60s, when hits like “Both Sides Now” catapulted her to international fame. Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is the deeply personal, honest, and revealing memoir of folk legend and relentlessly creative spirit Judy Collins. In it, she talks about her alcoholism, her lasting love affair with Stephen Stills, her friendships with Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Fariña, David Crosby, and Leonard Cohen and, above all, the music that helped define a decade and a generation’s sound track. Sweet Judy Blue Eyes invites the reader into the parties that peppered Laurel Canyon and into the recording studio so we see how cuts evolved take after take, while it sets an array of amazing musical talent against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent decades of twentieth-century America. Beautifully written, richly textured, and sharply insightful, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is an unforgettable chronicle of the folk renaissance in America.
Includes essays tracing Country's growth from hand-me-down folk to a major American industry; concise biographies; critical album reviews, from the earliest commercial recordings of the 1920s through the mulitplatinum artists of today; and vintage album jackets and previously unpublished photographs.
The line between friendship and love can sometimes become blurred. Sal, Major, and Abby have a complex relationship. When Major and Abby call off their engagement and Major announces he’s leaving the country, Sal is devastated and wonders if he’s to blame. Five years later, Major returns in time to find Sal obsessed with tracking down a stranger he flirted with at a stoplight. Wanting nothing more than for his friend to find true love, Major agrees to help in the search. The two enlist Abby, as well. Somewhere along the line, the trio becomes a quartet, old feelings resurface, old wounds are healed, and everyone learns where love really is.
Now you can have Bo and Ember’s entire love story in one collection. Years ago, when November Harris took the stage to sing with musician Bo Cavanaugh, she couldn’t have dreamed that night would be the beginning of forever. Love, loss, family, friends, death, and life tear Bo and Ember apart and struggle to bring them together as they walk their path through the November Blue series Start with Ten Days of Perfect, where Bo and Ember first lay eyes on each other. You’ll then be swirled through the emotions of Reckless Abandon, meet new friends in Sweet Forty-Two, enjoy the hope of Marrying Ember and, finally, navigate life’s harshest realities and greatest love in Bo & Ember.