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Nashville Chrome

Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547523904
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Nashville Chrome written by Rick Bass and published by HMH. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “splendid” novel based on the rise and fall of the Browns, Arkansas siblings who became country music legends, by an award-winning author (Dallas Morning News). Late in 1959, the Brown siblings—Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed—were enjoying unprecedented international success, rivaled only by their longtime friend Elvis Presley. They had a bona fide mega hit on their hands, which topped both the country and pop charts and gave rise to the polished sound of the multibillion dollar country music industry we know today. Mesmerized by the Browns’ haunting harmonies, the Beatles even tried to learn their secret. Their unique harmony, however, was only achievable through shared blood, and the trio’s perfect pitch was honed by a childhood spent listening for the elusive pulse and tone of an impeccably tempered blade at their parent’s Arkansas sawmill. But the Browns’ celebrity couldn’t survive the world changing around them, and the bonds of family began to fray along with the fame. Heartbreakingly, the novel jumps between the Browns’ promising past and the present, which finds Maxine—once supremely confident and ravenous in her pursuit of applause—ailing and alone. As her world increasingly narrows, her hunger for just one more chance to secure her legacy only grows, as does her need for human connection. Lyrical and nuanced, Nashville Chrome hits all the right grace notes with its vivid evocation of an era in American music, while at its heart it is a wrenching meditation on the complexities of fame and of one family—forgotten yet utterly unforgettable when reclaimed by Bass—who experienced them firsthand.

Nashville Chrome

Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547523904
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Nashville Chrome

Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : Christian Bourgois éditeur
ISBN 13 : 2267023318
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Nashville Chrome written by Rick Bass and published by Christian Bourgois éditeur. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qui se souvient encore des Brown, « le groupe américain préféré des Beatles » ? Dans les années 50, Maxine, Bonnie et Jim Ed Brown étaient pourtant aussi connus qu'Elvis Presley, qui trouva en eux des compagnons de route et une indéniable source d'inspiration. Nashville Chrome retrace le parcours, romancé, de ce trio atypique : leur enfance à Poplar Creek, dans le sud de l'Arkansas, à proximité de la scierie paternelle dont émanaient les fumées qui ont donné à leurs voix cet éclat soyeux et rauque ; les tournées aux côtés de ceux qui deviendront des grands noms de la musique rock country. Jusqu'au milieu des années 60, le groupe occupe le devant de la scène. Leur étoile pâlit peu à peu et ils se séparent au début des années 70. À l'image de leurs voix envoûtantes, Rick Bass construit un livre au ton délicat et juste. Au-delà du succès et du déclin de l'harmonie bien tempérée des Brown, se joue quelque chose de plus profond qui rappelle ses grands écrits sur la nature : leurs voix renvoient à l'authenticité d'une ère où les médias et les images ne sont pas encore rois.

Billboard

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-04-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Southern Cultures: Special Roots Music Issue

Author : Harry L. Watson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807899747
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Southern Cultures: Special Roots Music Issue written by Harry L. Watson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Special Roots Music Issue features: B.B. King on Bukka White's legacy; The Top Ten Folk Singers of All Time; Bob Dylan backstage in '63 and other rare photographic gems; Swamp bluesman Jimmy Anderson's first published interview in the U.S.; Lynyrd Skynyrd vs. the Allman Brothers; Pete, Peggy, & Mike--and all the rest that Charles Seeger gave to the world of music; Willie Lowery--musician, songwriting sensation, and humanitarian; Saxie Dowell, the great saxophonist and war hero; a sneak peek at NASHVILLE CHROME, the sizzling new novel from Rick Bass; and much more. The Roots Music Issue comes with a classic FREE CD full of great roots musicians, including BUKKA WHITE, ETTA BAKER, THE BYRDS' ROGER MCGUINN, WILLIE LOWERY, IDYLL SWORDS, ALABAMA SLIM & LITTLE FREDDIE KING, JIMMY ANDERSON & THE MOJO BLUES BAND, MICHAEL HURLEY, FILTHYBIRD, MEGAFAUN, PRESTON FULP, JOE BROWN, AND MORE OF THE SOUTH'S BEST ROOTS MUSICIANS—old and new. We'll mail the CD separately to our Roots Music e-book customers at no extra charge. Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.

Gibson Flying V

Author : Zachary R. Fjestad
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781886768727
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book Gibson Flying V written by Zachary R. Fjestad and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illustrated history of this Modernistic guitar is back for a revised second edition. Larry Meiners wrote and published the first edition in 2001, and author Zachary R. Fjestad (Blue Book of Electric Guitars) has revised and added information to this book. This book includes the history of the Flying V from the first designs in the mid-1950s to the models Gibson is currently producing fifty years later. New additions include all the models to be introduced and discontinued since 2001, the inclusion of Epiphone Flying Vs, and a new chapter on other manufacturers who have copied this fascinating design. An eight page color section and several specification pages make identifying your Flying V a breeze!

Congressional Record

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2094 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 2094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Thousand Deer

Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292737955
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Deer written by Rick Bass and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November, countless families across Texas head out for the annual deer hunt, a ritual that spans generations, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and gender as perhaps no other cultural experience in the state. Rick Bass's family has returned to the same hardscrabble piece of land in the Hill Country—"the Deer Pasture"—for more than seventy-five years. In A Thousand Deer, Bass walks the Deer Pasture again in memory and stories, tallying up what hunting there has taught him about our need for wildness and wilderness, about cycles in nature and in the life of a family, and particularly about how important it is for children to live in the natural world. The arc of A Thousand Deer spans from Bass's boyhood in the suburbs of Houston, where he searched for anything rank or fecund in the little oxbow swamps and pockets of woods along Buffalo Bayou, to his commitment to providing his children in Montana the same opportunity—a life afield—that his parents gave him in Texas. Inevitably this brings him back to the Deer Pasture and the passing of seasons and generations he has experienced there. Bass lyrically describes his own passage from young manhood, when the urge to hunt was something primal, to mature adulthood and the waning of the urge to take an animal, his commitment to the hunt evolving into a commitment to family and to the last wild places.

Diary of an Eco-Outlaw

Author : Diane Wilson
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603583823
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Diary of an Eco-Outlaw written by Diane Wilson and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diane Wilson is an activist, shrimper, and all around hell-raiser whose first book, An Unreasonable Woman, told of her battle to save her bay in Seadrift, Texas. Back then, she was an accidental activist who worked with whistleblowers, organized protests, and eventually sunk her own boat to stop the plastic-manufacturing giant Formosa from releasing dangerous chemicals into water she shrimped in, grew up on, and loved. But, it turns out, the fight against Formosa was just the beginning. In Diary of an Eco-Outlaw, Diane writes about what happened as she began to fight injustice not just in Seadrift, but around the world-taking on Union Carbide for its failure to compensate those injured in the Bhopal disaster, cofounding the women's antiwar group Code Pink to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, attempting a citizens arrest of Dick Cheney, famously covering herself with fake oil and demanding the arrest of then BP CEO Tony Hayward as he testified before Congress, and otherwise becoming a world-class activist against corporate injustice, war, and environmental crimes. As George Bernard Shaw once said, "all progress depends on unreasonable women." And in the Diary of an Eco-Outlaw, the eminently unreasonable Wilson delivers a no-holds-barred account of how she-a fourth-generation shrimper, former boat captain, and mother of five-took a turn at midlife, unable to stand by quietly as she witnessed abuses of people and the environment. Since then, she has launched legislative campaigns, demonstrations, and hunger strikes-and generally gotten herself in all manner of trouble. All worth it, says Wilson. Jailed more than 50 times for civil disobedience, Wilson has stood up for environmental justice, and peace, around the world-a fact that has earned her many kudos from environmentalists and peace activists alike, and that has forced progress where progress was hard to come by.

For a Little While

Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316381179
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book For a Little While written by Rick Bass and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Story Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice 100 Recommended Books of 2016 -- San Francisco Chronicle "A literary titan...Bass is, hands down, a master of the short form, creating in a few pages a natural world of mythic proportions." -- New York Times Book Review Long considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story, Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Now, at last, we have the definitive collection of stories, new and old, from the writer Newsweek has called "an American classic." To read his fiction is to feel more alive -- connected, incandescently, to "the brief longshot of having been chosen for the human experience," as one of his characters puts it.These pages reveal men and women living with passion and tenderness at the outer limits of the senses, each attempting to triumph against fate. Bass provides searing insights into the complexity of family and romantic entanglements, and his lush and striking language draws us ineluctably into the lives of these engaging people and their vivid surroundings. The intricate stories collected in For A Little While -- brimming with magic and wonder, filled with hard-won empathy, marbled throughout with astonishing imagery -- have the power both to devastate and to uplift. Together they showcase an iconic American master at his peak.

The Best Spiritual Writing 2011

Author : Philip Zaleski
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101478128
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 written by Philip Zaleski and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A trove of well-wrought, luminous, soul-bracing gifts." -Thomas Lynch (on the 2010 edition) With selection chosen from a vast range of journals and magazines, The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 gathers the finest pieces of spiritual writing to appear in American publications during the past year. The collection offers an opportunity to read intimate and thought-provoking work, ranging from poetry to short fiction to memoir to essay, by some of the nation's most esteemed writers, including Rick Bass, Philip Yancey, Terry Teachout, Robert D. Kaplan, and many others. As Phyllis Tickle said of last year's edition, "there is enough here to feed the hungry heart for years to come."

With Every Great Breath

Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640096310
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book With Every Great Breath written by Rick Bass and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Master craftsman" (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and personal landscapes through this collection that brings together his best-loved essays and brand-new pieces For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement, but so is the time-honored celebration of the beauty that inspires us. Spanning his storied career, these new and selected essays attempt to take a brief step to the side, away from lamentation and prescription, to inhabit, as deeply as possible, the greater depths of the beauty in each moment. With Every Great Breath ranges from the extremely local—a long-form essay about the community affected by the largest Superfund site in U.S. history, in Libby, Montana—to the far-flung: the Galápagos, Namibia, and Alaska. Throughout, Bass offers a portrait of our planet that is always alert to its wonders, even in the face of environmental crisis.

Lit from Within

Author : Kevin Haworth
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 082141948X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Lit from Within written by Kevin Haworth and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lit from Within offers creative writers a window into the minds of some of America’s most celebrated contemporary authors. Witty, direct, and thought-provoking, these essays offer something to creative writers of all backgrounds and experience. With contributions from fiction writers, poets, and nonfiction writers, this is a collection of unusual breadth and quality.

James Huniford: At Home

Author : James Huniford
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580935176
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book James Huniford: At Home written by James Huniford and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the design process of James Huniford, who is renowned for his skill in juxtaposing oppostites--contemporary with traditional, rustic with refined--to create a timeless whole. James Huniford, universally known as Ford, explores his design process thematically, with chapters on approaching a room, considering scale and proportion, selecting materials and art, using color effectively, and marrying form and function. His goal is to create "a modern sensibility of calm." Of special interest is his ability to create artworks out of found objects, compositions of tools, baskets, or metalwork that become compelling wall sculptures or freestanding pieces. Examples are drawn from a rich variety of projects--elegant Upper East Side apartments to raw lofts on the Lower East Side to contemporary condominums in new "supertall" towers in Manhattan, country houses in Connecticut, Upstate New York, and Martha's Vineyard, and across the country in Nashville and Marin Country, California. Special insight into his process can be gleaned from his own homes, a loft in Tribeca and a historic house in Bridgehampton that he readily admits are laboratories for his ideas.

New Stories from the South 2010

Author : Amy Hempel
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616200235
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book New Stories from the South 2010 written by Amy Hempel and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past twenty-five years, New Stories from the South has published the work of now well-known writers, including James Lee Burke, Andre Dubus, Barbara Kingsolver, John Sayles, Joshua Ferris, and Abraham Verghese and nurtured the talents of many others, including Larry Brown, Jill McCorkle, Brock Clarke, Lee Smith, and Daniel Wallace. This twenty-fifth volume reachs out beyond the South to one of the most acclaimed short story writers of our day. Guest editor Amy Hempel admits, “I’ve always had an affinity for writers from the South,” and in her choices, she’s identified the most inventive, heartbreaking, and chilling stories being written by Southerners all across the country. From the famous (Rick Bass, Wendell Berry, Elizabeth Spencer, Wells Tower, Padgett Powell, Dorothy Allison, Brad Watson) to the finest new talents, Amy Hempel has selected twenty-five of the best, most arresting stories of the past year. The 2010 collection is proof of the enduring vitality of the short form and the vigor of this ever-changing yet time-honored series.

West of 98

Author : Lynn Stegner
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292739346
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book West of 98 written by Lynn Stegner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a westerner? With all the mythology that has grown up about the American West, is it even possible to describe "how it was, how it is, here, in the West—just that," in the words of Lynn Stegner? Starting with that challenge, Stegner and Russell Rowland invited several dozen members of the western literary tribe to write about living in the West and being a western writer in particular. West of 98 gathers sixty-six literary testimonies, in essays and poetry, from a stellar collection of writers who represent every state west of the 98th parallel—a kind of Greek chorus of the most prominent voices in western literature today, who seek to "characterize the West as each of us grew to know it, and, equally important, the West that is still becoming." In West of 98, western writers speak to the ways in which the West imprints itself on the people who live there, as well as how the people of the West create the personality of the region. The writers explore the western landscape—how it has been revered and abused across centuries—and the inescapable limitations its aridity puts on all dreams of conquest and development. They dismantle the boosterism of manifest destiny and the cowboy and mountain man ethos of every-man-for-himself, and show instead how we must create new narratives of cooperation if we are to survive in this spare and beautiful country. The writers seek to define the essence of both actual and metaphoric wilderness as they journey toward a West that might honestly be called home. A collective declaration not of our independence but of our interdependence with the land and with each other, West of 98 opens up a whole new panorama of the western experience.

Best of the West 2011

Author : James Thomas
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292728794
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Best of the West 2011 written by James Thomas and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri, an annual anthology of exceptional short fiction rooted in the western United States, debuted in 1988 and continued publication until 1992. Recognizing that the West remains rewarding territory for literary explorations, James Thomas and D. Seth Horton revived the series in 2009. Best of the West 2011: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri is the latest volume in what has become one of the nation's most important anthologies. Editors Horton and Thomas have chosen twenty stories by writers including Rick Bass, T. C. Boyle, Ron Carlson, Philipp Meyer, Dagoberto Gilb, Yiyun Li, Antonya Nelson, and Sam Shepard. Subjects vary from an Idaho family that breeds lions and tigers with disastrous results, to a Mormon veteran whose mind is taken over by a nineteenth-century consciousness, to a Texas boy who spends an afternoon with Bonnie and Clyde shortly before their deaths. Taken together, these stories suggest that the West has become one of the most exciting and diverse literary regions in the twenty-first century.