Lovesick Blues

Author : Paul Hemphill
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143037712
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lovesick Blues written by Paul Hemphill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hank Williams, the quintessential country music singer and songwriter, lived a life as lonesome, desolate, and filled with sorrow as his timeless songs. From Williams's dirt- poor beginnings as a sickly child to his emergence as a star of the Grand Ole Opry, Lovesick Blues is the definitive biography of the man and his music.

Author : Paul Hemphill
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440627177
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lovesick Blues written by Paul Hemphill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hank Williams, the quintessential country music singer and songwriter, lived a life as lonesome, desolate, and filled with sorrow as his timeless songs. From Williams's dirt- poor beginnings as a sickly child to his emergence as a star of the Grand Ole Opry, Lovesick Blues is the definitive biography of the man and his music.

Author : Nick Tosches
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786750987
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Country written by Nick Tosches and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely and superbly illustrated, Country stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.

Author : Robert W. Harwood
Publisher : Harland Press
ISBN 13 : 0980974305
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Went Down to St. James Infirmary written by Robert W. Harwood and published by Harland Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul R. Nail, Ph.D.
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1682359654
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Psychological Biography of Hiram “Hank” Williams written by Paul R. Nail, Ph.D. and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II picks up in 1943-44, right where Volume I left off, with Hank’s courtship and marriage to first wife, Audrey (Sheppard) Guy Williams, his rise to fame at the Louisiana Hayride, 1948-49, and at the Grand Ole Opry, 1949-50, before success began closing in on him by December 1950. Hank was only 27 years old at the time, and no one knew that he had only two more years to live. Despite Hank’s growing alcoholism, marital and health problems, and eventual addiction to prescription drugs, his last two years were perhaps the most productive and successful of his career. “A special feature of Volume II is that Dr. Nail devotes an entire chapter to the art and craft of songwriting. Here, Nail provides what I believe is the most accurate and comprehensive analysis to date of the relative contributions of Hank and his publisher/song editor, Fred Rose, to Hank’s songs. Like Volume I, Volume II is a must-read for anyone seeking greater understanding and insight into the short but fabulous life and career of the legendary Hank Williams. I wholeheartedly recommend it.” – Ed Guy, noted Hank Williams expert

Author : Bill C. Malone
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252005275
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stars of Country Music written by Bill C. Malone and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays, written in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Grand Ole Opry, that provides portraits of the personal lives and careers of nineteen country music stars, with a chapter devoted to early pioneers such as Fiddlin' John Carson, and Carl T. Sprague.

Author : William MacEwen
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316074632
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hank Williams written by William MacEwen and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Long considered the last word on Hank Williams, this biography has remained continuously in print since its first publication in 1994.- This new edition has been completely updated and includes many previously unpublished photographs, as well as a complete catalog detailing all the songs Hank Williams ever wrote, even those he never recorded.- Colin Escott is codirector and cowriter of the forth-coming two-hour PBS/BBC television documentary on Hank Williams, set to broadcast in spring 2004, and coauthor of "Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway.- HANK WILLIAMS was the third-prize winner of the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award.

Author : William MacEwen
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316315060
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Saw the Light written by William MacEwen and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that inspired the major motion picture I Saw the Light. In his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs such as "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Hey, Good Lookin'," and "Jambalaya" sold millions of records and became the model for virtually all country music that followed. But by the time of his death at age twenty-nine, Williams had drunk and drugged and philandered his way through two messy marriages and out of his headline spot on the Grand Ole Opry. Even though he was country music's top seller, toward the end he was so famously unreliable that he was lucky to get a booking in a beer hall. Colin Escott's enthralling, definitive biograph -- now the basis of the major motion picture I Saw the Light -- vividly details the singer's stunning rise and his spectacular decline, revealing much that was previously unknown or hidden about the life of this country music legend. Originally published as Hank William: The Biography.

Author : Michael Kosser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493073532
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Nashville Became Music City, U.S.A. written by Michael Kosser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Nashville Became Music City, U.S.A. was first published in 2006 and quickly became the go-to reference for those seeking to understand the Nashville music industry, or write about it. Now, Michael Kosser, prolific songwriter and author, returns with an updated and expanded edition, bringing the history of Music Row up to the present, since so much has changed over the last fifteen years. This new edition of How Nashville Became Music City, U.S.A. details the history of the Nashville song and recording industry from the founding of its first serious commercial music publishing company in 1942 to the present. Kosser tells the history of Music Row primarily through the voices of those who made and continue to make that history, including record executives, producers, singers, publishers, songwriters, studio musicians, studio engineers, record promoters, and others responsible for the music and the business, including the ambitious music executives who struggle to find an audience who will buy country records instead of just listening to them on the radio. The result is a book with insight far beyond the usual media stories, with plenty of emotion, humor, and historical accuracy. Kosser traces the growth and cultural changes of Nashville and the adventurous souls who fly to it to be a part of the music. He follows the changes from its hillbilly roots through its “Nashville Sound” quasi-pop days, from the outlaws, the new traditionalists, and the mega-sellers to the recent bro country and the rise of mini-trends. This edition also bears witness to the huge influence of Music Row on pop, folk, rock, and other American music genres.

Author : Susan Masino
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1617131113
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Tradition written by Susan Masino and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering three generations of Hank Williams, Family Tradition is both unique and vast in scope. Beginning in the present day with Hank III – who gave the author unprecedented access – and time-traveling across the years, this examines just what kind of rebel mojo inspired this crazed family of country music, from Hank Sr. – often regarded as one of the most influential of American musicians – to Hank Jr., to this year's model, Hank III, who has somehow found a way to reconcile his legacy's deep-rooted twang and high-lonesome sound with particularly searing strains of punk and heavy metal, launching an all-out war with traditional Nashville in the process. Listen to Susan Masino live at Book Expo America on the BEA Podcast.