True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass: Jimmy Martin
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True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass: Jimmy Martin
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780826513601
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN-10
0826513603
ISBN-13
9780826513601
eBay Product ID (ePID)
502100
Product Key Features
Book Title
True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
General, Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music
Book Series
Co-Published with the Country Music Foundation Press Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
7.7 Oz
Item Length
7.5 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-006762
Reviews
Baptized in the same fire that gave us Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, this reigning King of Bluegrass [Jimmy Martin] is no doubt a charter member of the elite fraternity of southern musicians that helped forge what the world now knows as bluegrass, rockabilly, country, and rock 'n' roll music. ... Time spent with the King of Bluegrass is not for the lily-livered or the faint of heart. --Marty Stuart, from the Foreword, Tom Piazza unlocks the back door of bluegrass in his three-hundred-and-sixty-degree portrait of Jimmy Martin's tragic genius. Step inside--it's a fascinating, scary world, and you'll never be the same again. --Tim O'Brien, ...one of the most engaging, revealing, funny and sad books ever written about a Nashville musician. -- The Tennessean, Tom Piazza unlocks the back door of bluegrass in his three-hundred-and-sixty-degree portrait of Jimmy Martin's tragic genius. Step inside--it's a fascinating, scary world, and you'll never be the same again. Tim O'Brien, ...one of the most engaging, revealing, funny and sad books ever written about a Nashville musician -- The Tennessean, ...one of the most engaging, revealing, funny and sad books ever written about a Nashville musician. --The Tennessean
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
782.421642/092 B
Synopsis
Jimmy Martin was just twenty-two years old when Bill Monroe asked him to join the Blue Grass Boys. That invitation was the start of a career that spanned half a century and culminated with Martin's induction into the International Bluegrass Music Association's Hall of Honor. Always an enigmatic figure, Martin was as famous for his temper as he was for his talent. On assignment from the Oxford American magazine, fiction writer and music critic Tom Piazza drove from his home in New Orleans to Nashville to interview Martin and found himself pitched headlong into a world he couldn't have anticipated. Martin's mercurial personality drew the writer into a series of escalating encounters (with mean dogs, broken-down cars, and near electrocution), culminating in a harrowing and unforgettable expedition, with Martin, to the Grand Ole Opry. Though, or perhaps because, visits to the Opry like the one Piazza recounts were common for Martin, and though he frequently played on its stage and always hoped to become a member, he died before seeing his dream fulfilled. True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass is the funny, scary, and powerfully poignant portrait of one of the legends of American music. Co-published with the Country Music Foundation Press
LC Classification Number
ML420.M3318P5 1999
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