Author: Victoria Hallman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781629333311
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Remember the country music show, Hee Haw? Well, read all about it by the girls in the cornfield!

Author: Marshall Chapman
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826517358
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Marshall Chapman knows Nashville. A musician, songwriter, and author with nearly a dozen albums and a bestselling memoir under her belt, Chapman has lived and breathed Music City for over forty years. Her friendships with those who helped make Nashville one of the major forces in American music culture is unsurpassed. And in her new book, They Came to Nashville, the reader is invited to see Marshall Chapman as never before--as music journalist extraordinaire. In They Came to Nashville, Chapman records the personal stories of musicians shaping the modern history of music in Nashville, from the mouths of the musicians themselves. The trials, tribulations, and evolution of Music City are on display, as she sits down with influential figures like Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, and Miranda Lambert, and a dozen other top names, to record what brought each of them to Nashville and what inspired them to persevere. The book culminates in a hilarious and heroic attempt to find enough free time with Willie Nelson to get a proper interview. Instead, she's brought along on his raucous 2008 tour and winds up onstage in Beaumont, Texas singing "Good-Hearted Woman" with Willie. They Came to Nashville reveals the daily struggle facing newcomers to the music business, and the promise awaiting those willing to fight for the dream. Co-published with the Country Music Foundation Press

Author: Alicia Hunter Pace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1507206038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1275

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Moonlit nights and stage lights shine in this value-priced collection featuring country music stars who’ll strike the right chord with romance lovers. Hold on to your hats, country music lovers! Today’s hits are about real-life situations and down-home people—and that’s exactly what’s waiting for you as these four couples pour their hearts and souls in love’s spotlight. Forgiving Jackson: When a devastating fire at one of his concerts reopens old wounds for country superstar Jackson Beauford, he heads home for some peace and quiet—only to discover that stubborn Southern magnolia Emory Lowell has planted herself at his family estate, bringing chaos in her wake. Kiss Me, Katie: When aspiring fiddler Katie McCoy joins handsome singer Blake Jackson on his sold-out Country Summer Nights tour, they are a match made in music heaven. She’s focused on sending her band to the top of the charts; he’s been around enough to understand that celebrity attracts the wrong kind of lovers. But will fame destroy their love? Drive Me Sane: Sera Cavins returns to her hometown after a stint in Afghanistan, hoping some time alone will help her find her way back to being the girl everyone once knew. That is, until she finds herself sharing a house with the man who left her heartbroken before her deployment. Tyler Creech made it to Nashville and even earned a number one hit, but he’s back in Cobb City, Kentucky, to ease the stress of his next release. Can they accept that sometimes going a little crazy is what keeps you sane? His Temporary Wife: Esmerelda Salinas thought she was content to sing country karaoke in her aunt’s bar until sexy Rafael Benton offered her $250,000 to marry him for the summer. Even though rumors run rampant about Rafael, Esme knows she would enjoy the benefits without the “I do”…but sleeping with a man for the thrill is one thing. Can she accept a job that would make her rich but might destroy all she holds sacred? Sensuality Level: Sensual

Author: Jeremy Finley
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250147301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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"When four-year-old William vanishes in the woods behind his home, the only witness is his older brother who whispers, 'The lights took him,' and then never speaks again. With these words, the boys' grandmother Lynn Roseworth fears only she knows the truth. But coming forward would ruin her family and her husband's political career. As Lynn and her best friend Roxy revisit the secrets of her long-buried past to find clues that will lead to William, they'll get ensnared in a much larger conspiracy. The truth is hidden for a reason, and not even a grandmother's love may be enough to save her grandson from what is coming for them all"

Author: Mike Farris
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806185740
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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“Do you think you could teach Rock Hudson to talk like you do?” The question came from famed Hollywood director George Stevens, and an affirmative answer propelled Bob Hinkle into a fifty-year career in Hollywood as a speech coach, actor, producer, director, and friend to the stars. Along the way, Hinkle helped Rock Hudson, Dennis Hopper, Carroll Baker, and Mercedes McCambridge talk like Texans for the 1956 epic film Giant. He also helped create the character Jett Rink with James Dean, who became a best friend, and he consoled Elizabeth Taylor personally when Dean was killed in a tragic car accident before the film was released. A few years later, Paul Newman asked Hinkle to do for him what he’d done for James Dean. The result was Newman’s powerful portrayal of a Texas no-good in the Academy Award–winning film Hud (1963). Hinkle could—and did—stop by the LBJ Ranch to exchange pleasantries with the president of the United States. He did likewise with Elvis Presley at Graceland. Good friends with Robert Wagner, Hinkle even taught Wagner’s wife Natalie Wood how to throw a rope. He appeared in numerous television series, including Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Dragnet, and Walker, Texas Ranger. On a handshake, he worked as country music legend Marty Robbins’s manager, and he helped Evel Knievel rise to fame. From his birth in Brownfield, Texas, to a family so poor “they could only afford a tumbleweed as a pet,” Hinkle went on to gain acclaim in Hollywood. Through it all, he remained the salty, down-to-earth former rodeo cowboy from West Texas who could talk his way into—or out of—most any situation. More than forty photographs, including rare behind-the-scenes glimpses of the stars Hinkle met and befriended along the way, complement this rousing, never-dull memoir.

Author: Robin White
Publisher: Island Books
ISBN: 0440224608
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Against the vivid backdrop of a country replacing corrupt communism with an equally corrupt capitalism, the geologist-turned-mayor of Markovo becomes obsessed with a grisly murder. Ordered to investigate, Mayor Gregori Nowek, no detective, soon finds himself in a labyrinth of deception that nevertheless begins to yield clues that point first toward a scientist studying the nearly extinct Siberian tiger, the beautiful Dr. Anna Vereskaya and ultimately towards an American-financed oil exploration venture.

Author: Rebecca Traister
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476716579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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"Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a 'dramatic reversal.' [This book presents a] portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single American woman, covering class, race, [and] sexual orientation, and filled with ... anecdotes from ... contemporary and historical figures"--

Author: Edie May Hand
Publisher: Franklin Green Publishing
ISBN: 1936487497
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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60 plus heart moving stories of women from all walks of life who navigated with GRIT to transform their lives and those of the people around them. Edie Hand's Women of True Grit tells the stories of her journey in life with all the women she has crossed path's with and those women's stories. These phenomenal woman share stories of their own lives which will not only inspire you but motivate you to walk alongside someone else to transform the generation coming behind us. Stories from the likes of Astronaut Jan Davis, Champion Donna Stoney, Legend Jeannie Seely, Singer CeCe Winans, Advocate Leigh Ann Tuohy, Visionary Alie B Gorrie, Brigadier General Wilma Vaught.

Author: Ruta Lee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735383446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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A biography of singer, dancer and actress Ruta Lee

Author: Jerry Weintraub
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 0446568937
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. No matter where nature has placed him--the club rooms of Brooklyn, the Mafia dives of New York's Lower East Side, the wilds of Alaska, or the hills of Hollywood--he has found a way to put on a show and sell tickets at the door. "All life was a theater and I wanted to put it up on a stage," he writes. "I wanted to set the world under a marquee that read: 'Jerry Weintraub Presents.'" In When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead, we follow Weintraub from his first great success at age twenty-six with Elvis Presley, whom he took on the road with the help of Colonel Tom Parker; to the immortal days with Sinatra and Rat Pack glory; to his crowning hits as a movie producer, starting with Robert Altman and Nashville, continuing with Oh, God!, The Karate Kid movies, and Diner, among others, and summiting with Steven Soderbergh and Ocean's Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen. Along the way, we'll watch as Jerry moves from the poker tables of Palm Springs (the games went on for days), to the power rooms of Hollywood, to the halls of the White House, to Red Square in Moscow and the Great Palace in Beijing-all the while counseling potentates, poets, and kings, with clients and confidants like George Clooney, Bruce Willis, George H. W. Bush, Armand Hammer, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, John Denver, Bobby Fischer . . .well, the list goes on forever. And of course, the story is not yet over . . .as the old-timers say, "The best is yet to come." As Weintraub says, "When I stop talking, you'll know I'm dead." With wit, wisdom, and the cool confidence that has colored his remarkable career, Jerry chronicles a quintessentially American journey, one marked by luck, love, and improvisation. The stories he tells and the lessons we learn are essential, not just for those who love movies and music, but for businessmen, entrepreneurs, artists . . . everyone.