Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.84 (556 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865479607 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Dana Jennings, a native of New Hampshire, is an editor with The New York Times. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.
J. C Clark said i was hugely disappointed. While there are many things about this book I did not like, including its fundamental lack of any coherent world view, its inability to decide whether the fear of nuclear war did or did not impact these people--half the time he says they don't know and don't care about the outside world, half the time he's . Sam Sattler said Growing Up Among the Poor and Pissed Off. OK, I admit it. When it comes to real country music, and those whom I believe truly appreciate it as the art form that it is, I am prejudiced. Never in a million years would I believe that some guy from New Hampshire, a writer and editor for the New York Times, of all the newspapers in the word, for crying . Hollers and heartaches For anyone who thinks country music begins and ends with Kenny Chesney, here's your reality check. Part autobiography, part music appreciation course, the author gives the reader a lean, mean lesson in what country music -- in its Golden Age -- was all about. Far more than just twangy songs about drinking a
Grammy Jennings, "like Patsy Cline, knows what it is to go walkin' after midnight searching for her man, to fall to pieces, to be crazy-you don't go chasing your oldest son with a butcher knife if you ain't crazy." With the lonesome strains of the steel guitar and tales of hunger and poverty, reckless driving, cheating and drinking, country singers Hank Williams, Patsy Cline and Merle Haggard-no longer heard on the radio-sang not only to Jennings and his family but the millions of folks just like them struggling to face "The Cold Hard Facts of Life" (Porter Wagoner) in a postwar world. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. The perfect country song, according to the late songwriter Steve Goodman, always had references to mama, being drunk, cheating, going to prison and hell-bent driving. . All rights reserved. He recalls characters from his family to illustrate the themes of w
Country music’s giants all strode the earth in those years: Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, George Jones and Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. And many of the standards that still define country were recorded then: “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” “Mama Tried,” “Stand by Your Man,” and “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” In Sing Me Back Home, Dana Jennings pushes past the iconic voices and images to get at what classic country music truly means to us today. His grandmothers were honky-tonk angels, his uncles men of constant sorrow, and his father a romping, stomping hell-r