Country Music Broke My Brain

Author : Gerry House
Publisher : BenBella Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781637745854

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Country Music Broke My Brain by Gerry House Pdf

Nashville is filled with stars and lovers and writers and dreamers. Nashville is also teeming with lunatics and grifters and dip wads and moochers. Gerry House fits easily into at least half of those categories. Someone would probably have to be brain-damaged or really damn talented to try to entertain professional entertainers over a decades-long radio show in Music City, USA. Fortunately, House is little of both. Host of the nationally syndicated, top-rated morning show, “Gerry House & The Foundation" for more than 25 years, he has won virtually every broadcasting award there is including a place in the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Gerry also spent that time deep inside the songwriting and recording world in Nashville. In Country Music Broke My Brain, Gerry tells his stories from the other side of the microphone. He reveals never-aired, never-before published conversations with country music's biggest names—Johnny Cash, Brad Paisley, and Reba McEntire to name a few—and leaves you with his own crazy antics that will either have you laughing or shaking your head in disbelief. With exclusive celebrity stories, humorous trivia and anecdotes, and broadcasting wisdom, this book is a treat for country music fans or for anyone who wants a good laugh.

Author : Ken Burke
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781556529917

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Country Music Changed My Life by Ken Burke Pdf

In this book based on new interviews, some of country music's greatest stars share personal moments of redemption, inspiration, and heartache related to the music that shaped their lives. Brenda Lee explains how her childhood singing gift raised her entire family out of dire poverty, and Pat Boone speaks about the spiritual influence of his father-in-law, Red Foley. Barbara Pittman talks about her childhood friendship with Elvis Presley, while Little Jimmy Dickens divulges how Hank Williams came to write a song for him and why he never recorded it. Mickey Gilley talks about gladly living in, then gladly escaping, the shadow of his cousin Jerry Lee Lewis, and Hank Thompson reveals how his background in electrical engineering helped revolutionize country music. More stories from Glen Campbell, Don Williams, Johnny Legend, Chris Hillman, and many others explain the inspiration and effect of country music in their lives.

Author : Curtis W. Ellison
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Country music
ISBN : 1604739347

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Country Music Culture by Curtis W. Ellison Pdf

A social history of country music from the 1920s to the present, discussing such artists as Patsy Cline, Grandpa Jones, Dolly Parton, and Garth Brooks.

Author : Kurt Wolff
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Country music
ISBN : 1858285348

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Country Music by Kurt Wolff Pdf

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.

Author : Vladimir Bogdanov,Chris Woodstra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 963 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Country music
ISBN : OCLC:63073376

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All Music Guide to Country by Vladimir Bogdanov,Chris Woodstra Pdf

Author : Paul Kingsbury
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199840441

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The Encyclopedia of Country Music: The Ultimate Guide to the Music by Paul Kingsbury Pdf

To its millions of fans, country music is America's music, offering a window into the sweet dreams and cruel disappointments of ordinary American lives. Now the renowned Country Music Foundation, custodian of Nashville's legendary Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, has compiled a fascinating and infinitely useful guide to this beloved musical genre--The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Nearly 1,300 alphabetical entries put eight decades of country music at readers' fingertips, from the earliest '20s recordings of the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers to the '90s chart-topping albums of LeAnn Rimes and Garth Brooks. A distinguished field of 137 contributors provides an eminently readable and reliable guide to the singers, songwriters, record companies, and industry movers and shakers who have made country music the increasingly popular--and profitable--juggernaut it is today. Hundreds of photographs, some never before published, accompany the text, including 75 color photographs from the CMF Library's record collection, surveying the history of the country music album cover. Twelve appendices provide lists of country's all-time best-selling albums, country music stations nationwide, all the country music awards won over the years, and much more. Authoritative, accessible, and unerringly accurate, The Encyclopedia of Country Music will delight fans. It is an essential reference for libraries, radio stations, and the entertainment industry.

Author : Melton Alonza McLaurin,Richard A. Peterson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : 288124548X

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You Wrote My Life by Melton Alonza McLaurin,Richard A. Peterson Pdf

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Cecelia Tichi
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 0807846082

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High Lonesome by Cecelia Tichi Pdf

A close-up look at country music argues that it has become a national art form, reflecting the same themes that have characterized American art and literature over three centuries

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989*
Category : Country musicians
ISBN : OCLC:50611083

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The Best of Country Music by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bill C. Malone,Tracey Laird
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781477315354

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Country Music USA by Bill C. Malone,Tracey Laird Pdf

“Fifty years after its first publication, Country Music USA still stands as the most authoritative history of this uniquely American art form. Here are the stories of the people who made country music into such an integral part of our nation’s culture. We feel lucky to have had Bill Malone as an indispensable guide in making our PBS documentary; you should, too.” —Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, Country Music: An American Family Story From reviews of previous editions: “Considered the definitive history of American country music.” —Los Angeles Times “If anyone knows more about the subject than [Malone] does, God help them.” —Larry McMurtry, from In a Narrow Grave “With Country Music USA, Bill Malone wrote the Bible for country music history and scholarship. This groundbreaking work, now updated, is the definitive chronicle of the sweeping drama of the country music experience.” —Chet Flippo, former editorial director, CMT: Country Music Television and CMT.com “Country Music USA is the definitive history of country music and of the artists who shaped its fascinating worlds.” —William Ferris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Since its first publication in 1968, Bill C. Malone’s Country Music USA has won universal acclaim as the definitive history of American country music. Starting with the music’s folk roots in the rural South, it traces country music from the early days of radio into the twenty-first century. In this fiftieth-anniversary edition, Malone, the featured historian in Ken Burns’s 2019 documentary on country music, has revised every chapter to offer new information and fresh insights. Coauthor Tracey Laird tracks developments in country music in the new millennium, exploring the relationship between the current music scene and the traditions from which it emerged.

Author : Alan Cackett,Alec Foege
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 051788139X

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The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music by Alan Cackett,Alec Foege Pdf

Profiles such stars as Hank Williams and Patsy Cline, as well as the new country acts

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Country music
ISBN : IND:30000046875906

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The Journal of Country Music by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marissa R. Moss
Publisher : Henry Holt
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250793591

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Her Country by Marissa R. Moss Pdf

"Music journalist Moss debuts with [a] ... deep-dive into the careers of ... country music stars who 'opened up a window to a musical world where women are in charge.' Offering a ... cultural history of country music over the last 25 years, Moss traces how it went from being a space where singers like LeAnn Rimes and the (formerly Dixie Chicks) reigned supreme in the late '90s, to becoming a rigged system hell-bent on silencing its women"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Bruce Hunter
Publisher : Saskatoon : Thistledown Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020305244

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Country Music Country by Bruce Hunter Pdf

Country Music Country is about the Calgary we never see at Stampede time. Bruce Hunter’s people do dirty jobs for a living – if they’re lucky. If they’re unlucky they live hopeless and die dingy. This is lunch bucket literature and Bruce Hunter gives it a good name." David Carpenter.

Author : Ann Sophia Stephens,Charles Jacobs Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : American literature
ISBN : MINN:31951002807890J

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New Peterson Magazine by Ann Sophia Stephens,Charles Jacobs Peterson Pdf