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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"What makes us fall in love with a song? What makes us want to write our own songs? Do songs help? Do songs help us live better lives? And do the lives we live help us write better songs?...Jeff Tweedy is back with another disarming, beautiful, and inspirational book about why we listen to music, why we love songs, and how music can connect us to each other and to ourselves. Featuring fifty songs that have both changed Jeff’s life and influenced...
Pub. Date
2005
Description
The real story of America's most beloved music icon: a visual journey through the life of the man and his music. Exclusive photos and footage from his childhood home in Dyess, Arkansas to his early concerts. Plus a never before seen film of his White House performance for President Richard Nixon.
184) Country
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Documents the evolution of country music and discusses the key artists, songs, songwriters, and places that helped popularize this music genre.
Author
Pub. Date
2000, c1997
Description
Stambler and Landon here offer the third edition of a text first published as The Encyclopedia of Folk, Country, and Western Music (LJ 11/15/69; St. Martin's 1982. rev. ed.). The chiefly biographical entries have been substantially updated and tend to have more depth than usually found in other encyclopedias on country music. The reference-style layout promises to be useful and is augmented with a general index and specialized indexes of performer,...
187) Taylor Swift
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book tells about the life and accomplishments of singer and songwriter Taylor Swift, the youngest artist in history to win Entertainer of the Year at the Country Music Awards.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Inducted into more music Halls of Fame than any female recording artist to date, Loretta Lynn (b. April 14, 1932) has earned four Grammy Awards, Kennedy Center Honors and a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and sold more than 45 million records worldwide. Still going strong after more than 50 years, "The Queen of Country Music" is now the subject of this new documentary Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl. With unprecedented access to Lynn, her family...
192) Strawberry Summer
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
High school music teacher Beth Landon puts herself on the line when she invites world-famous country singer Jason Keith to perform at her rural town's Strawberry Festival. A one-hit wonder with a horrible rep for canceling shows and copping an attitude, Jason isn't what Beth's mother, Eileen, considers a reliable musical act for the beloved festival, which she is proudly hosting with her good friend Ruth.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
"The Browns - Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed - are a trio of siblings that had tremendous success in the 1950s and '60s. Following in the tradition of Loretta Lynn's Coal Miner's Daughter, this memoir delves into the Browns' remarkable past, beginning with a Depression-era childhood in rural south Arkansas scarred by poverty and tragedy. From that beginning emerged a duo, Maxine and Jim Ed, who became a popular feature of Little Rock's Barnyard Frolic...
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
Here, at last, is the exquisitely personal story of a mother and daughter who sang like angels and fought like the devil - but loved each other through struggle, triumph, and tragedy. For eight glorious years, Naomi Judd and daughter Wynonna lived the American dream. They were signed on the spot to RCA in 1983 in a rare live audition and went on to set the music world on its ear. Their pristine harmonies, unique personalities, and stunning presence...
199) Garth Brooks
Author
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the life and career of the popular country musician and singer.
