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"For the first time ever, legendary singer-songwriter Dolly Parton brings you behind the lyrics of 175 of her songs to reveal the personal stories and vibrant memories that have inspired sixty years of songwriting. Lushly illustrated and told in Dolly's inimitable voice, this rich collection offers an intimate, exclusive look at the colorful life, prolific career, and rags-to-rhinestones journey of one of the most revered entertainers of our time"--...
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English
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Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience. In the ensuing years, never staying anywhere for long, father and daughter move from one dusty town to the next, her passion for music growing every time she takes the mike in another roadhouse. But it is not an easy life for...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
364 p. : music ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Country music star Tess McPhail returns to her small home town to help care for her ailing mother and discovers that her fame carries no weight with her family or with the good-looking man next door.
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MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 videodisc (ca. 55 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sweet Dreams Still is the essential video anthology of Patsy's filmed musical performances. From 'red hot mama' to the Nashville sound, this program showcases the many facets of a brilliant body of work that ended all too soon.
5) Country
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English
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Stephanie Adams is a devoted stay-at-home mother, married to a successful lawyer in northern California, in a dead marriage she’s stayed in for years for the sake of her children. Then, on a ski trip in Squaw Valley, her fifty-two-year-old husband dies suddenly and all bets are off. Despite her children’s grief, and her own conflicting emotions and loneliness, Stephanie tries to move on, but struggles to find herself as an independent individual...
7) Yellow Rose
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Rose, a young Filipina from a small Texas town, pursues her dream to become a country music singer.
8) Crazy heart
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An aging dysfunctional country musician finds himself falling in love with a newspaper journalist who wants to write a story about him for her paper.
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
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xiii, 175 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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In Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and colleagues who have blessed his remarkable journey. Willie riffs on everything: music, wives, Texas, politics, horses, religion, marijuana, children, the environment, poker, hogs, Nashville, karma, and more. He shares the outlaw wisdom he has acquired over eight decades, along...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
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xxiii, 472 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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A heartbreaking and unforgettable portrait of country music’s founding father. After he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams -- a frail, flawed man who had become country music’s most compelling and popular star -- instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr. Having hit the heights in the postwar era with simple songs of heartache and star-crossed love, he would, with that outlaw swagger, become in death...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
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English
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This portrait of the legendary country music star is told through lyrical free verse that conveys information about his impoverished childhood and the extraordinary talent that enabled his career and rise to success on the world stage.
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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xxi, 389 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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“Nobody knows Dolly like Dolly,” declares Dolly Parton. Dolly’s is a rags-to-riches tale like no other. A dirt-poor Smoky Mountain childhood paved the way for the buxom blonde butterfly’s metamorphosis from singer-songwriter to international music superstar. The undisputed “Queen of Country Music,” Dolly has sold more than 100 million records worldwide and has conquered just about every facet of the entertainment industry: music, film,...
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University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Margo Price is from Aledo, in western Illinois; she's a Midwest farmer's daughter who moves to Nashville to become a musician. She waits tables, busks on the street, plays open mics, and talks to her uncle, Bob Fischer, a songwriter for dozens of country music legends. Uncle Bob's advice is to throw away her TV and do nothing but write. So, discouraged but determined, she does. Price writes constantly, but she's also trying to meet industry people...
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Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (ca. 1 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The legendary Dolly Parton shares her heartfelt hopes and dreams for everyone. Expanding on the hugely popular commencement speech that Dolly Parton gave at the University of Tennessee, Dream More is a deeper and richer exploration of the personal philosophy she has forged over the course of her astonishing career as a singer, songwriter, performer, and philanthropist. Dolly elaborates on the four great hopes she wants us all to embrace: Dream more,...
Publisher
UMe
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the roots of country singer Patsy Cline's impact in both personal and cultural terms to illuminate how she arrived at a pivotal moment in the evolution of American culture. The documentary also features rare performances and archival interviews with Cline's contemporaries and new interviews with a wide range of artists who have been influenced by Cline.
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English
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A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive
In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time, the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion, including how she developed her own, distinctly Dolly style, which has defied convention and endeared...
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English
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"An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Tweedy, sharing fifty-plus songs that changed his life, the real-life experiences behind each one, as well as what he's learned about how music and life intertwine and enhance each other What makes us fall in love with a song? What makes us want to write our own songs? Do songs help? Do songs help us live better lives?...
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Publisher
Insight Editions
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
158 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.), facsims. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
House of Cash is an unprecedented look at the life and inspirations of the Man in Black, by none other than his namesake son, John Carter Cash. Gathering together previously unpublished photographs, lyrics, art, notes, and recollections from the Cash family archives, John Carter paints a portrait of his father’s inner life, and the values he imparted to his son and family. A record of a deep and ongoing conversations between father and son about...
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