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The Gig Book: Country Hits

Author : Wise Publications
Publisher : Wise Publications
ISBN 13 : 1783231084
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Gig Book: Country Hits written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you already exhausted the Gig Books of Acoustic Hits, or Classic Rock, or Number 1 Hits? Got a gig coming up in a Country bar? Well, you’re in luck. The Gig Book: Country is jam packed with classic country songs by the biggest names of the genre. Presented with melody line arrangements in standard notation, with guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics, this is the perfect reference for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians, allowing you to quickly understand and learn every song – how to sing it and what chords to play. The setlist includes: - 3:10 To Yuma, The [Frankie Laine] - A Boy Named Sue [Johnny Cash] - Act Naturally [The Beatles] - Always On My Mind [Willie Nelson] - Blue Moon Of Kentucky [Bill Monroe] - Born To Lose [Ted Daffan] - Crazy [Patsy Cline] - For The Good Times [Kris Kristofferson] - Gentle On My Mind [Glen Campbell] - Guitar Man [Elvis Presley] - I Can't Stop Loving You [Don Gibson] - I Saw The Light [Hank Williams] - I Walk The Line [Johnny Cash] - If Tomorrow Never Comes [Garth Brooks] - Jolene [Dolly Parton] - Long Black Veil [Lefty Frizzell] - She Believes In Me [Kenny Rogers] - Take Me Home Country Roads [John Denver] - Tennessee Waltz [Patti Page] - The Yellow Rose Of Texas [Gene Autry] - Tobacco Road [The Swingin’ Blue Jeans] - Wabash Cannonball [The Carter Family] And many, many more!

Fingerstyle Guitar Gig Book

Author : Bill Piburn
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1609741307
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Fingerstyle Guitar Gig Book written by Bill Piburn and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 146 fingerstyle transcriptions and arrangements covers a wide variety of styles including dozens of popular and jazz standards as well as blues and country songs, sea chanteys, folk ballads, sacred, gospel and Christmas melodies, Celtic and patriotic tunes, children's songs, classical and wedding music, and select Piburn originals. the book is designed as a resource for guitarists in virtually any solo performance situation. the result of years of experience as an arranger/composer and performing guitarist, this book provides a goldmine of tunes for the fingerstyle player. from Greensleeves and the Girl I left Behind Me to 'Round Midnight and the Girl from Ipanema, this comprehensive anthology has it all. You'll be able to compile your set lists for a broad array of venues from this single source! Intermediate to advanced in difficulty with all tunes appearing in standard notation and tablature.

The Gig Book

Author : Graham Vickers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849380942
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Gig Book written by Graham Vickers and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring lyrics, chord boxes and melody line, text, as well as black and white photos, these handy books are an ideal size for stuffing in your gig bag. Glance inside and you'll see they're super-sized packages of hit after hit for all musicians.With a hard-wearing PVC cover, each book in the series is designed to be carried around and used, over and over again!Bound to be as popular with keyboard players as the Little Black Books are with guitarists!

The Gig Book: No. 1 Hits

Author : Wise Publications
Publisher : Wise Publications
ISBN 13 : 1783231475
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Gig Book: No. 1 Hits written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Need to quickly learn some songs for your gig? Going out busking with only 3 songs in your repertoire? Thankfully, The Gig Book: No. 1 Hits is here, jam packed with 101 Hits from the past 60 years. Presented with melody line arrangements in standard notation, with guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics, this is the perfect reference for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians, allowing you to quickly understand and learn every song – how to sing them and what chords to play. The setlist includes: - ...Baby One More Time [Britney Spears] - America [Razorlight] - Ashes To Ashes [David Bowie] - Beautiful Day [U2] - Bleeding Love [Leona Lewis] - Can't Get You Out Of My Head [Kylie Minogue] - Come On Eileen [Dexys Midnight Runners] - Crazy [Gnarls Barkley] - Don't Speak [No Doubt] - Going Underground [The Jam] - Grace Kelly [Mika] - Heart Of Glass [Blondie] - I Believe I Can Fly [R. Kelly] - I Want To Know What Love Is [Foreigner] - I Will Survive [Gloria Gaynor] - Imagine [John Lennon] - Karma Chameleon [Culture Club] - Like A Prayer [Madonna] - Love Is All Around [Wet Wet Wet] - Mull Of Kintyre [Wings] - My Heart Will Go On [Celine Dion] - Never Gonna Give You Up [Rick Astley] - Umbrella [Rihanna] - Video Killed The Radio Star [The Buggles] - Viva La Vida [Coldplay] And many, many more!

The Music Hustle

Author : Andy Penk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781636763774
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book The Music Hustle written by Andy Penk and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believe in yourself. Believe in your songs. Believe in the music. The Music Hustle: How to Book the Gig is the essential guidebook for budding musicians looking to break into the local music scene; full of valuable anecdotes and savvy advice from several successful gigging musicians, as well as venue owners and record label employees from across the country. This book helps you define yourself as an artist and will answer the questions: What is the best way to get in contact with a booker? How can I use social media to improve my chances of scoring a gig? Why should I bother networking with other musicians? Whether you're a solo cover act, band, original singer-songwriter, or parent of a musically-inclined child, by following The Music Hustle's practical tips and tricks, you'll be practiced, professional, prepared, and prosperous in no time flat.

The Gig Book: Bob Dylan

Author : Wise Publications
Publisher : Wise Publications
ISBN 13 : 178323167X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Gig Book: Bob Dylan written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gig Book: Bob Dylan features the lyrics, Guitar chord boxes and melody line to one hundred classic Bob Dylan songs from the every decade of his career. This is the perfect reference for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians, allowing you to quickly understand and learn every song – how to sing them and what chords to play. Setlist: - Blowin' In The Wind - Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Ballad Of Hollis Brown - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Masters Of War - Girl From The North Country - With God On Our Side - Only A Pawn In Their Game - Chimes Of Freedom - The Times They Are A-Changin' - One Too Many Mornings - All I Really Wanna Do - I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) - Spanish Harlem Incident - My Back Pages - It Ain't Me Babe - To Ramona - Subterranean Homesick Blues - Maggie's Farm - Mr Tambourine Man - It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Gates Of Eden - Love Minus Zero/No Limit - She Belongs To Me - Its All Over Now, Baby Blue - Like A Rolling Stone - Tombstone Blues - It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry - Highway 61 Revisited - Queen Jane Approximately - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Desolation Row - Positively 4th Street - Visions Of Johanna - One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - I Want You - Just Like A Woman - Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again - Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) - Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands - I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine - All Along The Watchtower - Drifter's Escape - I Pity The Poor Immigrant - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight - Quinn The Eskimo - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - This Wheel's on Fire - Tears Of Rage - Lay Lady Lay - I Threw It All Away - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You - If Not For You - Watching The River Flow - I Shall Be Released - New Morning - When I Paint My Masterpiece - Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Forever Young - Tangled Up In Blue - Simple Twist Of Fate - You're A Big Girl Now - Idiot Wind - If You See Her, Say Hello - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - Shelter From The Storm - Hurricane - One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) - Oh, Sister - Isis - Romance In Durango - Changing Of The Guards - Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) - Gotta Serve Somebody - I Believe In You - Every Grain Of Sand - Jokerman - Blind Willie McTell - Brownsville Girl - Most Of The Time - Ring Them Bells - Everything Is Broken - Man In The Long Black Coat - Dignity - Series Of Dreams - Love Sick - Tryin' To Get To Heaven - Make You Feel My Love - Not Dark Yet - Mississippi - High Water (For Charley Patton) - Things Have Changed - Workingman's Blues #2 - Thunder On The Mountain - Someday Baby - When The Deal Goes Down - Life Is Hard - Beyond Here Lies Nothin’

Complete Country Blues Guitar Book

Author : Stefan Grossman
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610658736
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Complete Country Blues Guitar Book written by Stefan Grossman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book has 260 pages and over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, Delta blues, ragtime blues, Texas blues and bottleneck styles. An extremely comprehensive blues solo collection.Includes access to online audio

The Starday Story

Author : Nathan D. Gibson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496801512
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Starday Story written by Nathan D. Gibson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Research in Record Labels–Certificate of Merit (2012) The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built is the first book entirely dedicated to one of the most influential music labels of the twentieth century. In addition to creating the largest bluegrass catalogue throughout the 1950s and '60s, Starday was also known for its legendary rockabilly catalogue, an extensive Texas honky-tonk outpouring, classic gospel and sacred recordings, and as a Nashville independent powerhouse studio and label. Written with label president and co-founder Don Pierce, this book traces the label's origins in 1953 through the 1968 Starday-King merger. Interviews with artists and their families, employees, and Pierce contribute to the stories behind famous hit songs, including "Y'all Come," "A Satisfied Mind," "Why Baby Why," "Giddy-up Go," "Alabam," and many others. Gibson's research and interviews also shed new light on the musical careers of George Jones, Arlie Duff, Willie Nelson, Roger Miller, the Stanley Brothers, Cowboy Copas, Red Sovine, and countless other Starday artists. Conversations with the children of Pappy Daily and Jack Starns provide a unique perspective on the early days of Starday, and extensive interviews with Pierce offer an insider glance at the country music industry during its golden era. Weathering through the storm of rock and roll and, later, the Nashville Sound, Starday was a home to traditional country musicians and became one of the most successful independent labels in American history. Ultimately, The Starday Story is the definitive record of a country music label that played an integral role in preserving our nation's musical heritage.

Gig

Author : John Bowe
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0609807072
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Gig written by John Bowe and published by Crown. This book was released on 2001-08-21 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An engaging, humorous, revealing, and refreshingly human look at the bizarre, life-threatening, and delightfully humdrum exploits of everyone from sports heroes to sex workers.” -- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Coercion, Ecstasy Club, and Media Virus This wide-ranging survey of the American economy at the turn of the millennium is stunning, surprising, and always entertaining. It gives us an unflinching view of the fabric of this country from the point of view of the people who keep it all moving. The more than 120 roughly textured monologues that make up Gig beautifully capture the voices of our fast-paced and diverse economy. The selections demonstrate how much our world has changed--and stayed the same--in the three decades prior to the turn of the millennium. If you think things have speeded up, become more complicated and more technological, you're right. But people's attitudes about their jobs, their hopes and goals and disappointments, endure. Gig's soul isn't sociological--it's emotional. The wholehearted diligence that people bring to their work is deeply, inexplicably moving. People speak in these pages of the constant and complex stresses nearly all of them confront on the job, but, nearly universally, they throw themselves without reservation into coping with them. Instead of resisting work, we seem to adapt to it. Some of us love our jobs, some of us don't, but almost all of us are not quite sure what we would do without one. With all the hallmarks of another classic on this subject, Gig is a fabulous read, filled with indelible voices from coast to coast. After hearing them, you'll never again feel quite the same about how we work.

Woman Walk the Line

Author : Holly Gleason
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477314903
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Woman Walk the Line written by Holly Gleason and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it’s Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it’s the humanity beneath the music that resonates. Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly’s Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn’s girl-power anthem “The Pill”; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt’s unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on a post-9/11 survivor on the run; Emmylou Harris offers a gateway through paralyzing grief; and Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it. Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who make them, Woman Walk the Line is a very personal collection of essays from some of America’s most intriguing women writers. It speaks to the ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in various states of grace and imperfection—and ultimately how music transforms not just the person making it, but also the listener.

Bluegrass & Country Music for Harmonica

Author : Phil Duncan
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610654528
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Bluegrass & Country Music for Harmonica written by Phil Duncan and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention all harmonica enthusiast! Join in the fun of playing at a bluegrass festival with a bluegrass band. This book brings to you the often performed tunes by every bluegrass and country player of all instruments. Select a few of these tunes and play them on your harmonica and you will be an instant hit! the book contains diatonic, cross harp, and chromatic stylings on 48 country/ bluegrass favorites: Bile 'Dem Cabbage Down; Arkansas Traveler; Wildwood Flower; Old Joe Clark; Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms; Crawdad Song; and many more. the stereo accompaniment CD has 18 of the songs recorded. All 18 songs are recorded on the beginning tracks with the harmonica, and again without the harmonica included. Shown in standard notation with lyrics, guitar chords & harmonica tab.

The Nashville Number System

Author : Chas Williams
Publisher : Ingram
ISBN 13 : 9780963090676
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Nashville Number System written by Chas Williams and published by Ingram. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nashville Number System was originally written and published in 1988 by Chas. He has rigorously updated and edited the book for each of 7 subsequent editions. Featured here is the 2005 printing and 7th edition of The Nashville Number System; expanded with the inclusion of the cd/cd rom, String Of Pearls. By word of mouth, it has become the most recommended source for learning the Number System. The Nashville Number System is used as a text at Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Belmont University, in Nashville, and MTSU in Murfreesboro,TN. SYNOPSISIn the late 50's, Neil Matthews devised a musical number system for the Jordanaires to use in the studio. Charlie McCoy and fellow studio musicians began adapting Matthews' number system into chord charts. The Nashville Number System has evolved into a complete method of writing chord charts and melodies---combining Nashville shorthand with formal notation standards. The Nashville Number System is 130 pages with a step by step method of how to write a Nashville number chart for any song. Included with each NNS book in Edition 7 is the cd, "String Of Pearls". This is a 10 song cd of instrumentals, including, Amazing Grace. I walk you through the details of each song and explain the Number System tools used to write the charts. Now, while listening to the cd, you can see and hear how Nashville number charts work.String Of Pearls is an Extended CD (CD ROM). As well as high quality audio that will play in your cd player, you can insert the disc into your computer and watch animated number charts as you listen to the songs. On the cd rom, there is a click track with each song and a highlight moving from chord to chord in time with the music. You can see exactly how to count each measure in real time with the music. Counting bars is probably the hardest part of the number system to teach. With this cd rom, you will be able to see, hear and feel how these charts work.

Always a Song

Author : Ellen Harper
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1797201581
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Always a Song written by Ellen Harper and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always a Song is a collection of stories from singer and songwriter Ellen Harper—folk matriarch and mother to the Grammy-winning musician Ben Harper. Harper shares vivid memories of growing up in Los Angeles through the 1960s among famous and small-town musicians, raising Ben, and the historic Folk Music Center. This beautifully written memoir includes stories of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, The New Lost City Ramblers, Doc Watson, and many more. • Harper takes readers on an intimate journey through the folk music revival. • The book spans a transformational time in music, history, and American culture. • Covers historical events from the love-ins, women's rights protests, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the popularization of the sitar and the ukulele. • Includes full-color photo insert. "Growing up, an endless stream of musicians and artists came from across the country to my family's music store. Bess Lomax Hawes, Joan Baez, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGee—all the singers, organizers, guitar and banjo pickers and players, songwriters, painters, dancers, their husbands, wives, and children—we were all in it together. And we believed singing could change the world."—Ellen Harper Music lovers and history buffs will enjoy this rare invitation into a world of stories and song that inspired folk music today. • A must-read for lovers of music, history, and those nostalgic for the acoustic echo of the original folk music that influenced a generation • Harper's parents opened the legendary Folk Music Center in Claremont, California, as well as the revered folk music venue The Golden Ring. • A perfect book for people who are obsessed with folk music, all things 1960s, learning about musical movements, or California history • Great for those who loved Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock by Barney Hoskyns; and Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller.

Diary of a Player

Author : Brad Paisley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145167435X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Player written by Brad Paisley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The country music superstar shares what the guitar has meant to him as a means of finding his own voice, who inspired his love of music, and memorable stories about the great guitar players he has encountered over the years.

The Gig Book: Traditional Songs

Author : Wise Publications
Publisher : Wise Publications
ISBN 13 : 1783232064
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Gig Book: Traditional Songs written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gig Book returns again with the chords an lyrics to over one hundred traditional songs; songs of hard travellin’, booze, the wild country and broken hearts. Presented with melody line arrangements in standard notation, with guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics, this is the perfect reference for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians, allowing you to quickly understand and learn every one of these historical pieces – how to sing it and what chords to play. The setlist includes: - Abide With Me - Amazing Grace - Barbara Allen - Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Cotton Fields - Dixie - Down By The Riverside - Down In The Valley - Four Drunken Nights - House Of The Rising Sun - John Brown's Body - John Henry - Midnight Special - Scarborough Fair - Shortnin' Bread - Streets Of London - The Blue Bells Of Scotland - The Camptown Races - Where Have All The Flowers Gone? - Auld Lang Syne - The Bells Of Rhymney - Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair - Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen - Frankie And Johnny And many, many more!

Country Hits

Author : Nick Crispin
Publisher : Gig Book
ISBN 13 : 9781849380928
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Country Hits written by Nick Crispin and published by Gig Book. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Perfect for guitarists, keyboard players and othe musicians"-- Cover.

Twentieth Century Drifter

Author : Diane Diekman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094204
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Drifter written by Diane Diekman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins is the first biography of this legendary country music artist and NASCAR driver who scored sixteen number-one hits and two Grammy awards. Yet even with fame and fortune, Marty Robbins always yearned for more. Drawing from personal interviews and in-depth research, biographer Diane Diekman explains how Robbins saw himself as a drifter, a man always searching for self-fulfillment and inner peace. Born Martin David Robinson to a hardworking mother and an abusive alcoholic father, he never fully escaped the insecurities burned into him by a poverty-stricken nomadic childhood in the Arizona desert. In 1947 he got his first gig as a singer and guitar player. Too nervous to talk, the shy young man walked onstage singing. Soon he changed his name to Marty Robbins, cultivated his magnetic stage presence, and established himself as an entertainer, songwriter, and successful NASCAR driver. For fans of Robbins, NASCAR, and classic country music, Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins is a revealing portrait of this well-loved, restless entertainer, a private man who kept those who loved him at a distance.