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Sing your heart out, country boy
- Title
- Sing your heart out, country boy / Dorothy Horstman.
- Author
- Horstman, Dorothy.
- Publication
- Nashville, Tenn. : Country Music Foundation Press : Distributed by Vanderbilt University Press, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | ML3524 .H67 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xx, 443 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This is the definitive country music book.
- Here are the lyrics to virtually every country song that matters, from "Your Cheatin' Heart" to "Stand By Your Man" to "Friends In Low Places," with comments on each song by the artist who wrote it, or a friend or heir. The list of contributors reads like all-star night in Nashville. Loretta Lynn tells how "Coal Miner's Daughter" came out of here own experience, while Mary Chapin Carpenter reveals that the inspiration for "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" came from watching a Geritol commercial.
- Audrey Williams talks about her husband, Hank. Maybelle Carter remembers A. P. Carter. Kris Kristofferson, Gene Autry, Alan Jackson, Roy Acuff, Merle Haggard, Roger Miller, Dolly Parton, and countless others speak for themselves.
- . This book is divided into fifteen categories, including Songs of Home, Lost and Unrequited Love, Traveling, Prison, and Cowboy songs. Each section begins with a short essay by Dorothy Horstman, country music scholar and song-writer. Also included is a complete bibliography and a discography which leads you to classic recordings of all the songs in the book.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-422), discography (p. 423-432), and indexes.
- Contents
- Foreword / Frances Preston -- 1. Songs of Home -- 2. Religious Songs -- 3. Songs of Death and Sorrow -- 4. Comic and Novelty Songs -- 5. Winning Love Songs -- 6. Songs of Lost and Unrequited Love -- 7. Cheatin' Songs -- 8. Honky-Tonk Songs -- 9. Social Commentary -- 10. Songs of War and Patriotism -- 11. Prison Songs -- 12. The Working Man -- 13. Cowboy Songs -- 14. Traveling Songs -- 15. Story Songs.
- ISBN
- 0915608197
- LCCN
- 95040611
- OCLC
- 33079327
- ocm33079327
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries