Willie Me

Author : Willie Nelson
Publisher : Harper Horizon
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780785245735

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Me and Paul by Willie Nelson Pdf

Discover the untold stories and unbreakable bond between country music icon Willie Nelson and his longtime drummer, Paul English. Immortalized in Willie Nelson’s road song "Me and Paul," Paul English was the towering figure who for 70 years acted as Willie’s drummer, bodyguard, accountant, partner in crime, and right-hand man. Together, the two men roamed the country by: putting on shows, getting into a few scrapes, raising money for good causes, and bringing the joy of their music to fans worldwide. Stories of Willie and Paul’s misadventures became legendary, but many have gone untold--until now. Set against the backdrop of the exploding Americana music scene and told in Willie’s inimitable, colorful style, Me and Paul follows the two performers through their decades-long careers.

Author : Elizabeth Kytle
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820323763

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Willie Mae by Elizabeth Kytle Pdf

First published in 1958 and selected by the New York Times as one of the best books of the year, Willie Mae is a first-person account of a black woman's life and her experiences as a domestic worker in a succession of southern households in the first half of the century. Powerful and poignant, sometimes funny and always honest, Willie Mae is a testament to the courage and strength of a generation of women who struggled to survive with dignity and humanity in the years before the civil rights movement.

Author : Willie Nelson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062193650

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Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die by Willie Nelson Pdf

In Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and colleagues who have blessed his remarkable journey. Willie riffs on everything, from music to poker, Texas to Nashville, and more. He shares the outlaw wisdom he has acquired over the course of eight decades, along with favorite jokes and insights from family, bandmates, and close friends. Rare family pictures, beautiful artwork created by his son, Micah Nelson, and lyrics to classic songs punctuate these charming and poignant memories. A road journal written in Willie Nelson's inimitable, homespun voice and a fitting tribute to America’s greatest traveling bard, Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die—introduced by another favorite son of Texas, Kinky Friedman—is a deeply personal look into the heart and soul of a unique man and one of the greatest artists of our time, a songwriter and performer whose legacy will endure for generations to come.

Author : Lynnée Denise
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781477327951

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Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters by Lynnée Denise Pdf

A queer, Black “biography in essays” about the performer who gave us “Hound Dog,” “Ball and Chain,” and other songs that changed the course of American music. Born in Alabama in 1926, raised in the church, appropriated by white performers, buried in an indigent’s grave—Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton's life events epitomize the blues—but Lynnée Denise pushes past the stereotypes to read Thornton’s life through a Black, queer, feminist lens and reveal an artist who was an innovator across her four-decade-long career. Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters “samples” elements of Thornton’s art—and, occasionally, the author’s own story—to create “a biography in essays” that explores the life of its subject as a DJ might dig through a crate of records. Denise connects Thornton’s vaudevillesque performances in Sammy Green’s Hot Harlem Revue to the vocal improvisations that made “Hound Dog” a hit for Peacock Records (and later for Elvis Presley), injecting music criticism into what’s often framed as a cautionary tale of record-industry racism. She interprets Thornton’s performing in men’s suits as both a sly, Little Richard–like queering of the Chitlin Circuit and a simple preference for pants over dresses that didn’t have a pocket for her harmonica. Most radical of all, she refers to her subject by her given name rather than "Big Mama," a nickname bestowed upon her by a white man. It's a deliberate and crucial act of reclamation, because in the name of Willie Mae Thornton is the sound of Black musical resilience.

Author : Dan Gutman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062332073

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Willie & Me by Dan Gutman Pdf

With more than 1.5 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures series brings the greatest players in history to life. Featuring black-and-white photographs and stats throughout, plus back matter separating fact from fiction, Willie & Me is the perfect mix of history and action for every young baseball fan. Stosh thought he was finished traveling back in time. But then Ralph Branca shows up in his room one night, begging for Stosh's help. In 1951, Branca pitched a ball to Bobby Thomson that would become the "Shot Heard Round the World," a home run that won the National League pennant for the New York Giants and changed the lives of Branca and Thomson forever. Branca says the Giants were cheating, and he needs Stosh to use his power with baseball cards to go back in time and set things right. Stosh is determined to help, but he quickly learns that you can't change just one little thing in history. If he erases the "Shot Heard Round the World," he may forever alter the life of a young rookie named Willie Mays. With wisdom from all the players he has helped before—plus the surprise return of some familiar faces—Stosh uses his power to travel in time using baseball cards one last time in a fabulous finale to the adventure of a lifetime. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in the English Language Arts

Author : Willie Nelson,Bobbie Nelson,David Ritz
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984854155

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Me and Sister Bobbie by Willie Nelson,Bobbie Nelson,David Ritz Pdf

The untold story of Willie Nelson and his sister, Bobbie, who, over the course of their lives together, supported each other through personal tragedies and triumphs and forged an unbreakable bond through their shared love of music “Tender and intimate.”—The New Yorker “Poignant, beautiful, heartfelt.”—New York Journal of Books ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Rolling Stone, Kirkus Reviews Abandoned by their parents as toddlers, Willie and Bobbie Nelson found their love of music almost immediately through their grandparents, who raised them in a small Texas town. Their close relationship was the longest-lasting bond in both their lives. In alternating chapters, this heartfelt dual memoir weaves together both their stories as they experienced them side by side and apart. The Nelsons share powerful, emotional moments from growing up, playing music in public for the first time, and facing trials in adulthood, as Willie pursued songwriting and Bobbie faced a series of challenging relationships and a musical career that took off only when attitudes about women began to change in Texas. This is Bobbie’s only memoir, and in it she candidly shares her life story in full. Her deeply affecting chapters delve into her personal relationships and life as a mother and as a musician with technical skills that even Willie admits surpass his own. In his poignant stories, Willie shares the depth of his bond with his sister, and how that bond carried him through his most troubled moments. Willie and Bobbie supported each other through unthinkable personal heartbreak, and they always shared in each other’s victories. Through dizzying highs and traumatic lows, spanning almost nine decades of life, Willie and Bobbie always had each other’s back. Their story is an inspiring, lyrical statement of how family always finds the way.

Author : Iceberg Slim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936399154

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Airtight Willie & Me by Iceberg Slim Pdf

Robert Beck, the man known as Iceberg Slim, brings readers on a ride through the terrifying and elusive urban streets. Filled with unforgettable and distinctive prose, Airtight Willie & Me is further evidence that Iceberg Slim is the only author capable of capturing the language of the streets. Though originally published nearly 50 years ago, Slim's stories are timeless accounts that continue to shed light upon a seedy underworld. Compelling always, funny sometimes, Slim's short stories are six slices of city life that will leave readers thirsting for more.

Author : James S. Hirsch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439171653

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Willie Mays by James S. Hirsch Pdf

The “enormously entertaining and wide-ranging” (Seattle Times) authorized, definitive, New York Times bestselling biography of Willie Mays, the most complete baseball player of all time. Willie Mays is arguably the greatest player in baseball history, still revered for the passion he brought to the game. He began as a teenager in the Negro Leagues, became a cult hero in New York, and was the headliner in Major League Baseball’s bold expansion to California. He was a blend of power, speed, and stylistic bravado that enraptured fans for more than two decades. Now James Hirsch reveals the man behind the player. Mays was a transcendent figure who received standing ovations in enemy stadiums and who, during the turbulent civil rights era, urged understanding and reconciliation. More than his records, his legacy is defined by the pure joy that he brought to fans and the loving memories that have been passed to future generations so they might know the magic and beauty of the game. With meticulous research and drawing on interviews with Mays himself as well as with close friends, family, and teammates, Hirsch presents a brilliant portrait of one of America’s most significant cultural icons.

Author : Willie Nelson
Publisher : Harper Horizon
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780785241553

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Willie Nelson's Letters to America by Willie Nelson Pdf

Following his bestselling memoir, It’s a Long Story, Willie Nelson now delivers his most intimate thoughts and stories in Willie Nelson's Letters to America. A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller! From his opening letter “Dear America” to his “Dear Willie” epilogue, Willie digs deep into his heart and soul--and his music catalog--to lift us up in difficult times, and to remind us of the endless promise and continuous obligations of all Americans--to themselves, to one another, and to their nation. In a series of letters straight from the heart, Willie sends his thanks and his thoughts to: Americans past, present, and future, his closest family members, andhis parents, sister, and children, his other family members his guitar “Trigger”, his hero Gene Autry, the US founding fathers, his personal heroes, from our founding fathers to the leaders of future generations and to young songwriters as well as leaders of our future generations. Willie’s letters are rounded out with the moving lyrics to some of his most famous and insightful songs, including “Let Me Be a Man,” “Family Bible,” “Summer of Roses,” “Me and Paul,” “A Horse called Music,” “Healing Hands of Time,” and “Yesterday's Wine.”

Author : Willie Nelson,Bud Shrake
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781461661313

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Willie by Willie Nelson,Bud Shrake Pdf

Willie Nelson is more than just a singer whose albums have captures this country's imagination for more than thirty years: he is the nearest thing we have to the poet laureate of America's heart and the heartland. Told with frankness, warmth and earthy humor, here is Willie's story: his depression ere childhood; his stormy marriages; his will experiences with drugs, booze and women; his long rise to stardom; his musical and personal experiences with Waylon Jennings, Julio Iglesias, Kris Kristopherson, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Frank Sinatra and Linda Ronstadt.

Author : Ellen Violett,Lisabeth Blake
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 0822201496

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Brewsie and Willie by Ellen Violett,Lisabeth Blake Pdf

Author : Willie Sterner
Publisher : Azrieli Series of Holocaust Su
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1897470185

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The Shadows Behind Me by Willie Sterner Pdf

Willie Sterner's skill as a painter brought him to a fateful meeting with the renowned Oskar Schindler and helped him evade death at the hands of the Nazis.

Author : Michael Gray
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Blind musicians
ISBN : 9781556529757

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Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes by Michael Gray Pdf

Biography of a blind man who made light of his disability, who exploded every stereotype about blues musicians.

Author : John Ames Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015049421509

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Life by John Ames Mitchell Pdf

Author : Finley Peter Dunne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Humor
ISBN : HARVARD:32044021197199

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Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War by Finley Peter Dunne Pdf