An all-access look into the lives Denise and Alan Jackson, one of country musics most famous couples: their love story, struggles, dreams, success, the near-failure of their marriage, and the rediscovery of their faith and how that has dramatically shaped their lives. Includes a two-song CD by Alan Jackson.
She's hit the top as a singer, songwriter, actress, music publisher, theme park owner, television producer, philanthropist and cosmetics maker but she has kept her sense of humour and the country philosophy that has helped her from the start. In this memoir, Dolly tells the personal stories her fans can't wait to hear about: growing up in ...
This fascinating autobiography of the country music legend recounts the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs of his remarkable life. The story takes us from his childhood on an Arkansas cotton farm to his early years at Sun Records. We read of his life on the road and meetings with, and performances for, world leaders. There is ...
During what is supposed to be the biggest summer of Priscilla Jayne Morgans life as she rises to country music stardom, she finds herself under the watchful eye of her former crush, Jared Hamilton. Jared remembers how much of a handful P.J. was. Now hed love to have his hands full of her. Original.
Top-selling country music mega-star Trace Adkins offers an entertaining and thought-provoking memoir/manifesto with his personal views on everything from the environment to family to the war on terror.
Willie Nelson has spent the last 30 years on that higher plane of celebrity where he signifies many things to many people--American folk hero, national treasure, Outlaw, tax dodger, country traditionalist, actor and friend of the farmer amongst many others. Acclaimed biographer and journalist Joe Nick Patoski offers a frank and thorough portrait, ...
When a Southern waitress inherits the Lowcountry cafe where she works, she suddenly has to balance more than just her next food order. Caroline Sweeney has always done the right thing--the responsible, dependable thing--unlike her mother who abandoned her family. But when her best friend challenges her to accept an exciting job adventure in ...
She's the reigning queen of country music--with a string of platinum-plus albums to her credit. But when this #1 performer set pen to paper, she wrote the heartwarming, bestselling story of her life in a candid, funny, and emotional way--just the way her fans would expect. Includes more than 140 personal photos. Simultaneous release with Reba's ...
Tying in with the publication of Loretta Lynn's long-awaited autobiographical sequel, Still Woman Enough, later this year. Born in 1935 into abject poverty, married at age thirteen, and a grandmother by age twenty-nine, Loretta Lynn went on to become one of the most prolific and influential singers in modern country music. The first woman to be ...
The most comprehensive and enlightening book on Chet Atkins ever published. A friend of Atkins' for 40 years, Russ Cochran was privy to stories from Chet that even the most knowledgeable Chet fan would ever know about. Chet tells it all in his own words about his childhood, his playing influences and early struggles to find work, along with ...
This is the definitive biography of music legend, Johnny Cash by the leading authority on the star. This major new biography will fully and engagingly document the career of the late country legend Johnny Cash (1932-2003), an artist who ranks with Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra as one of the 20th century's major singers. It will be the first full ...
Country music's Waylon Jennings shares this story of his life. He tells of his rise from poor beginnings to fame as Buddy Holly's protege, and his own near-destruction from drug abuse and financial ruin. He discusses his three failed marriages, and his joy at finding his soulmate, Jessi Colter.
In this riveting follow-up to her #1 "New York Times" bestselling memoir "Coal Miner's Daughter, " Loretta Lynn continues her captivating story about triumphing over the odds. 16 page photo insert.
In a long, successful, and at times controversial career, the prolific country artist Willie Nelson's output has encompassed both international pop hits like "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," his duet with Julio Iglesias, and pop standards, in his phenomenally successful album, STARDUST. First published in 1988, his autobiography, WILLIE, is a ...
This elegant, revealing, and powerful memoir of Vivian Cash, Johnny Cashs first wife of 12 years and the mother of his four daughters, features shocking new revelations, untold stories, and never-before-seen photos of the couples life together. 16 pages of b&w photographs.
The winner of the 2007 CMT Horizon Award is profiled in this unauthorized biography, which covers Swift from her younger years to her current superstar status. Includes a 4-page full-color insert.
Merle Haggard's biography is a candidly told tale of dissipated talent, drugs, women, and country music. One of the most significant country artists of the 1960s, Haggard's musical strength came from the realism of his lyrics, which in turn reflected the difficulties of his own life, perhaps the defining event of which was the death of his father ...
The tale of one of the most influential country singers who ever lived is a compelling mix of triumph over adversity and defeat at the hands of deep-rooted family characteristics. Born into a poor Alabama family in 1923, Hiram Williams (he later changed his name to Hank) was probably afflicted with spina bifida from birth, and perhaps only drawn ...
As Michael Streissguth's informative and vivid chronicle of Johnny Cash's career-making California penitentiary gig makes clear, the singer had always been favorably disposed towards prison shows, having made over 30 appearances before captive audiences by the time of his Folsom concert. Streissguth recounts Cash's mid-1960s lack of artistic ...
An illustrated version of the song, which celebrates the power of people helping each other. Each book comes packaged with an audiocassette of Naomi and Wynonna Judd singing the song "Love Can Build a Bridge".
In "The Best of Evil, "Aramis Black uncovered family secrets and historical conspiracies, hoping that his own dark past had come to certain resolution. But now, in the dark of night, he finds his brother unconscious and tied to a statue in Nashville's Music Row ...with the initials AX carved into his back. A shadow from his former life has ...
This forthright autobiography offers fresh, disarmingly funny insights on being a highly conspicuous anomaly and making it work. Overcoming prejudice and hatred, Charley Pride has won the hearts of country music listeners and has garnered fantastic acclaim, winning three Grammys and selling more than 30 million records in the U.S. alone. Photos.
The ageless country crooner with a bent for drink, song, storytelling, and dirty jokes is on the road again--literally--in this hodgepodge of anecdotes, photographs, lyrics, and musings composed while Nelson went on tour in his bus, Honeysuckle Rose III. Drifting through his past like a tumbleweed, Nelson offers up a cornucopia of stories that ...
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