Lovesick Blues
Autor Paul Hemphillen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 aug 2006
Hank Williams, the quintessential country music singer and songwriter, lived a life as lonesome, desolate, and filled with sorrow as his timeless songs. From Williams's dirt- poor beginnings as a sickly child to his emergence as a star of the Grand Ole Opry, Lovesick Blues is the definitive biography of the man and his music.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780143037712
ISBN-10: 0143037714
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
ISBN-10: 0143037714
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Recenzii
Hemphill comes to his love of Hank honestly. . . . He tells the familiar story with economy and grace. (Garrison Keillor, The New York Times Book Review)
A book as exhilarating as his music. (The Atlanta Journal- Constitution)
A book as exhilarating as his music. (The Atlanta Journal- Constitution)
Notă biografică
Paul Hemphill was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of four novels and eleven works of nonfiction dealing with the blue-collar South, including The Nashville Sound.
Descriere
Hank Williams' story reads like fiction: dirt-poor beginnings as a sickly child, learning music from a black street singer and refining it in raucous honky-tonks during the Depression, and emerging as a Grand Ole Opry star. He mined his experiences to write songs that will live forever.