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King of Country

Autor Wayne Greenhaw
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2008
Bobby Lee Butler has the gift of country music. Given an old guitar, his fingers soon learn to summon forth the music, sweet and lonely. Bobby Lee's talent carries him from Montgomery (where he lands a singing job on a local radion station) to Nashville (where the Grand Ole Opry is just a stepping stone to a career on national radio, television, and stunning record sales). He is loved by women wherever they can find him, while his wife and children would love just to see him. Fast-lane living becomes the challenge to Bobby Lee's intrinsic, simple gifts, the source of his power. Greenhaw captures the grit and glamour of country music - with its roots in the rural churches and on the porches of simple frame houses to the glitzy extreme of Lear jets and limousines belonging to the pampered stars. Imagine Robert Altman's film Nashville boiled down to the essence of a single character arc, and you have the treatment Wayne Greenhaw gives Bobby Lee Butler's crowded, crazy thirty-four year life - a classic, triumphant tale of success behind the bright lights, a shocking look at show business and celebrityhood, love ambition, and survival in tabloid-saturated America.
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ISBN-13: 9781579660772
ISBN-10: 1579660770
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 157 x 228 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:REV.
Editura: River City Publishing

Notă biografică

Wayne Greenhaw is the 2006 recipent of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer, given annually at Monroeville's Alabama Writers' Symposium. In 2005, he received the Clarence Cason Award for Nonfiction, given annually by the University of Alabama's College of Communication. An award-winning journalist and former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Greenhaw's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Miami Herald, Reader's Digest, Music City News, and many others. He is the author of more than seventeen books, the most recent of which is The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow (co-authored with Donnie Williams). He divides his time between Montgomery, Alabama, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

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Originally published in 1994, this fully reedited version of Greenhaw's classic examination of the tribulations that come with fame is as gripping as the film "Walk the Line." Bobby Lee Butler has a natural talent for country and blues music, for touching people with his gift for lyrics--but is that enough on which to build a happy life?