The Storyteller's Nashville: A Gritty & Glorious Life in

The Storyteller's Nashville: A Gritty & Glorious Life in Country Music

The Nashville we know today is a glitzy big business characterized by entertainment lawyers, social media strategies, and buff, shiny entertainers writing about pick-up trucks, tractors, and dirt roads in air-conditioned, corporate offices. But, back before the coats of glamour and media spotlights, Nashville was a very different place.
â€œThe Storytellerâ€™s Nashvilleâ€ is about a fabled town that once was, but no longer exists. The Nashville that Tom T. Hall wrote about -- the â€œhairy-legged townâ€ where hungry, broke musicians searched for their next meal, pill-popping pickers scammed their next hit, and writers found art in moments of quiet, solitary desperation - is the true foundation upon which todayâ€™s modern Music City rests. â€œThe Storytellerâ€™s Nashvilleâ€ is also about a man whose songs irrevocably altered the history of that same town as well as the music for which it remains best known. And, while â€œThe Storytellerâ€™s Nashvilleâ€ is no longer an up-to-date picture of Music City, it is a valuable window into the nature of the art and creation during its formative days. In the early 1980s, someone asked Johnny Cash what Nashville was really like. Cash said, â€œJust read The Storytellerâ€™s Nashville by Tom T. Hall. Everything you need to know is in there.â€
Tom T. Hall is a Country Music Hall of Famer for many reasons, including the hit songs he wrote, his three decades as a popular entertainer, and the fact that he and a wild-eyed pack of youngsters that included Kris Kristofferson, Roger Miller, Mickey Newbury and John Hartford elevated the language of country music from simple tales into something akin to literature. The wondrous George Jones called Hall â€œBy far the all-time greatest songwriter/storyteller that country music has ever had.â€
Initially published in 1979, this revised and expanded edition of The Storytellerâ€™s Nashville includes Tom T. Hallâ€™s thoughts on the years after 1979: he shares his deep friendship with Jimmy Carter; brings us Johnny Cashâ€™s thoughts on humility; and reflects on the challenging confluences of celebrity, art and the most dangerous addiction known to musicians: applause.
â€œThe Storytellerâ€™s Nashvilleâ€ is illuminating and hilarious, ribald and touching and, above all, entertaining. Itâ€™s Tom T.â€™s greatest song and itâ€™s now longer. And even better.
Country USA
Brand Spring House Press
Manufacturer Spring House Pr
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781940611440
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Spring House Press
Manufacturer	Spring House Pr
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781940611440
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Storyteller's Nashville: A Gritty & Glorious Life in Country Music

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