Download or read book Boogie and Leon written by Johna Kent and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boogie and Leon grew up next door to each other and became fast friends through a hole in the fence. Boogie is a worrier and a Daschund, while Leon is a happy-go-lucky Golden Retriever with a very kind heart. They visit the dog park where they meet up with their other friends, Sammy, a Beagle, and Colleen, an Irish Setter. They also meet Butch, a former guard dog who is now a pet, but he is not happy about it! In fact, Butch has become a grouch. See what happens when the dogs enter the annual Halloween costume contest. If you're looking for adventure, Boogie and Leon will delight you! Johna Kent started writing when she acquired a Bassett Hound named Walter. He was her first dog after being owned by cats most of her life. She was intrigued by how Walter saw life from only a foot off the ground, and started getting ideas for writing a book series about dogs. She is a pharmacist by profession and lives in Central California. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/JohnaKen

Download or read book Leon Russell written by Bill Janovitz and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive New York Times bestselling biography of legendary musician, composer, and performer Leon Russell, who profoudly influenced George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, and the world of music as a whole. Leon Russell is an icon, but somehow is still an underappreciated artist. He is spoken of in tones reserved not just for the most talented musicians, but also for the most complex and fascinating. His career is like a roadmap of music history, often intersecting with rock royalty like Bob Dylan, the Stones, and the Beatles. He started in the Fifties as a teenager touring with Jerry Lee Lewis, going on to play piano on records by such giants as Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys, and Phil Spector, and on hundreds of classic songs with major recording artists. Leon was Elton John’s idol, and Elton inducted him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Leon also gets credit for altering Willie Nelson’s career, giving us the long-haired, pot-friendly Willie we all know and love today. In his prime, Leon filled stadiums on solo tours, and was an organizer/performer on both Joe Cocker’s revolutionary Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour and George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh. Leon also founded Shelter Records in 1969 with producer Denny Cordell, discovering and releasing the debut albums of Tom Petty, the Gap Band, Phoebe Snow, and J.J. Cale. Leon always assembled wildly diverse bands and performances, fostering creative and free atmospheres for musicians to live and work together. He brazenly challenged musical and social barriers. However, Russell also struggled with his demons, including substance abuse, severe depression, and a crippling stage fright that wreaked havoc on his psyche over the long haul and at times seemed to will himself into obscurity. Now, acclaimed author and founding member of Buffalo Tom, Bill Janovitz shines the spotlight on one of the most important music makers of the twentieth century.

Download or read book Leon s Legacy written by Lono Waiwaiole and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three novels in Waiwaiole’s dark and dangerous Wiley series chronicle the tragic twists and turns in the lives of two old friends after those lives have completely gone off the rails in Portland, Oregon. In LEON’S LEGACY, Waiwaiole goes back to where it all began — back when Wiley and Leon were high school kids pursuing the state basketball championship. Unfortunately, it was also the year that the crack gangs from California began to sink their talons into Portland’s inner city, a juxtaposition that threatens not only their hoop quest but also their lives. An inner-city high school teacher and basketball coach when this actually occurred in Portland, Waiwaiole has a wealth of first-hand exposure to this story and the writing chops to deliver it convincingly. Praise for LEON’S LEGACY … “Lono Waiwaiole writes with a command you don’t see much anymore. He is the opposite of the winking hard-boil writer of today. He writes authentically and knowingly about America’s underclass, the streets and being an outsider. Leon’s Legacy is an unexpectedly honest novel about a violent teenage world, peopled with intensely believable characters whose upside down humanity will grab you.” —Kent Harrington, author of The Red Jungle and Rat Machine Possible blurbs (most for previous books; not sure about Christgau’s) … “Lono Waiwaiole’s Wiley novels are the past and the future of hard-boiled crime fiction, rolled up together inside prose that’s as cold and as shiny as the city streets. But there’s hope and redemption there too, glinting like the morning sun on wet pavement.” —Lee Child “With prose so sharp you can’t even feel the cut, scalpel-like in its precision, and driving to the heart by way of the gut, Lono Waiwaiole is that rarest of writers — brutally honest, unflinchingly brave, and not about to take no for an answer. Neither Wiley nor Waiwaiole are to be missed!” —Greg Rucka “Noir fans need to know about Waiwaiole right now. He’s the real thing, and he’s too good to miss.” —Bill Ott (Booklist starred review) “A tale of basketball, friendship, and street gang hostility that reads with the pace of a blistering fast break.” —John Christgau, author of Tricksters in the Madhouse: Lakers vs. Globetrotters, 1948 and The Origins of the Jump Shot: Eight Men Who Shook the World of Basketball

Download or read book Texas Zydeco written by Roger Wood and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most people, zydeco appears as quintessentially Louisiana as gumbo. Certainly, the music originated among black Creoles of southwest Louisiana. But the swamps of southwest Louisiana spill across the Sabine River into southeast Texas, and the music originally known as "la-la" quickly trickled west, too. There it fused with blues to create a new sound that came to be known, spelled, and recorded as "zydeco." Black Creoles from Louisiana began moving into southeast Texas in search of better jobs during the first half of the twentieth century. As they resettled, so did their music. Texas Zydeco describes how many of the most formative players and moments in modern zydeco history developed in Texas, especially Houston. As the new players traveled back and forth between Houston and Lafayette, Louisiana, they spread the new sound along a "zydeco corridor" that is the musical axis around which zydeco revolves to this day. Roger Wood and James Fraher spent years traveling this corridor, interviewing and photographing hundreds of authentic musicians, dancers, club owners, and fans. As their words and images make clear, zydeco, both historically and today, belongs not to a state but to all the people of the upper Gulf Coast.

Download or read book A BLUES LIFE written by Johan Wijngaarden and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am born and raised in Friesland, in the North of the Netherlands. When the BLUES struck me in 1972, I was 21 years of age. Now I am 65. This paperback is about those over forty years in between. A BLUES LIFE part 1, with 10 stories from a Dutch point of view and A BLUES LIFE part 2, directly from Mississippi in the deep south of the U.S.A. -A Dutchman in the Delta- covers 13 stories. I cannot read a musical note, sing, nor play a piano or a guitar. But I wrote about it: In this book you will find 25 true, short stories about the Blues and Boogie Woogie, that devilish music. English is not my native tongue. I have done my utmost to avoid mistakes.

Download or read book Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 110 written by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and published by Third Millennium Information Ltd. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together they present a broad range of styles and media, from oil, acrylic, and mixed-media paintings and drawings to photography, sculpture, installation art, and video and digital imagery.".

Download or read book Everything I Know about God I Learned from Football written by Eric Chaffin and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready for the Gospel according to Lombardi? That's what Everything I Know About God I Learned From Football is. It is a playbook for life that illustrates principles for victory in terms football fanatics relate to, terms like blitz, blocking, rivalry, and game plan. Author Eric Chaffin draws the reader deeply into the scriptures by using compelling examples from the world of football, inviting you to 'go deep' with the ultimate coach: God. Eric Chaffin is the Pastor of Broadview Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas, the Founder of 3:14 Ministries, Inc., an arena football chaplain, and he is author of Finish Strong: Tackling Life Head On.

Download or read book Fantastic Realities written by Frank Wilczek and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fantastic reality that is modern physics is open for your exploration, guided by one of its primary architects and interpreters, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek. Some jokes, some poems, and extracts from wife Betsy Devine's sparkling chronicle of what it's like to live through a Nobel Prize provide easy entertainment. There's also some history, some philosophy, some exposition of frontier science, and some frontier science, for your lasting edification. 49 pieces, including many from Wilczek's award-winning Reference Frame columns in Physics Today, and some never before published, are gathered by style and subject into a dozen chapters, each with a revealing, witty introduction. Profound ideas, presented with style: What could be better? Enjoy.

Download or read book Superstar in a Masquerade written by William Sargent and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superstar in a Masquerade tells the story about Leon Russell, an award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, who was born with cerebral palsy, and learned to master the piano. He became an in-demand session man in Hollywood, contributing to thousands of songs by hundreds of artists, during his seven-decade career. He was called the "Rainbow Minister & Ringleader" for the Hippie Generation, and although most people can say they never heard of him, few can say they've never heard him. After reading this book, you can play "Three Degrees of Leon," just like the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," linking him to anyone, from B.B. King to ZZ Top. As an emigre from Oklahoma to California, he invited David Gates and J. J. Cale to join him in the music mecca known as Tinseltown, where the Tulsa Trio made untold contributions to America's popular music. Read about over five hundred artists, and their songs that Leon, David, and J. J. helped create, as well as... When seventeen-year-old Leon replaced Jerry Lee Lewis on stage in 1959. How Frank Sinatra caused Leon to let his hair grow. How J. J. Cale played a role in the formation of the band Bread. How Leon saved Joe Cocker's career and created Willie Nelson's famous image. When Elton John was Leon's opening act on tour. Why DC Comics sued Leon's record label for $2 million. When David Gates's band backed Chuck Berry on stage in 1961. When Leon brazenly threw the "F-bomb" at Phil Spector. When Leon called organized Christianity the single most harmful force in history. What Broadway song Leon borrowed from for "This Masquerade."

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1947-07-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Download or read book Kill em and Leave written by James McBride and published by Spiegel & Grau. This book was released on 2016 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award winner James McBride goes in search of the real James Brownand his surprising journey illuminates not only our understanding of the Godfather of Soul but the ways in which our cultural heritage has been shaped by Browns legacy.

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Download or read book The African American Male Writing and Difference written by W. Lawrence Hogue and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging analysis, W. Lawrence Hogue argues that African American life and history is more diverse than even African American critics generally acknowledge. Focusing on literary representations of African American males in particular, Hogue examines works by James Weldon Johnson, William Melvin Kelley, Charles Wright, Nathan Heard, Clarence Major, James Earl Hardy, and Don Belton to see how they portray middle-class, Christian, subaltern, voodoo, urban, jazz/blues, postmodern, and gay African American cultures. Hogue shows that this polycentric perspective can move beyond a "racial uplift" approach to African American literature and history and help paint a clearer picture of the rich diversity of African American life and culture.

Download or read book Record Makers and Breakers written by John Broven and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an engaging and exceptional history of the independent rock 'n' roll record industry from its raw regional beginnings in the 1940s with R & B and hillbilly music through its peak in the 1950s and decline in the 1960s. John Broven combines narrative history with extensive oral history material from numerous recording pioneers including Joe Bihari of Modern Records; Marshall Chess of Chess Records; Jerry Wexler, Ahmet Ertegun, and Miriam Bienstock of Atlantic Records; Sam Phillips of Sun Records; Art Rupe of Specialty Records; and many more.

Download or read book The Big Lebowski written by Jenny M. Jones and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVWhether contending with nihilists, botching a kidnapping pay-off, watching as his beloved rug is micturated upon, or simply bowling and drinking Caucasians, the Dude—or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing—abides. As embodied by Jeff Bridges, the main character of the 1998 Coen brothers’ film The Big Lebowski is a modern hero who has inspired festivals, burlesque interpretations, and even a religion (Dudeism). In time for the fifteenth anniversary of The Big Lebowski, film author and curator Jenny M. Jones tells the full story of the Dude, from how the Coen brothers came up with the idea for a modern LA noir to never-been-told anecdotes about the film’s production, its critical and commercial reception, and, finally, how it came to be such an international cult hit. Achievers, as Lebowski fans call themselves, will discover many hidden truths, including why it is that Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) is so obsessed with Vietnam, what makes Theodore Donald “Donny� Kerabatsos (Steve Buscemi) so confused all the time, how the film defies genre, and what unexpected surprise Bridges got during filming of the Gutterballs dream sequence. (Hint: it involved curly wigs and a gurney.) Interspersed throughout are sidebars, interviews with members of the film’s cast and crew, scene breakdowns, guest essays by prominent experts on Lebowski language, music, filmmaking techniques, and more, and hundreds of photographs—including many of artwork inspired by the film./div

Download or read book Country Music USA written by Bill C. Malone and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fifty years after its first publication, Country Music USA still stands as the most authoritative history of this uniquely American art form. Here are the stories of the people who made country music into such an integral part of our nation’s culture. We feel lucky to have had Bill Malone as an indispensable guide in making our PBS documentary; you should, too.” —Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, Country Music: An American Family Story From reviews of previous editions: “Considered the definitive history of American country music.” —Los Angeles Times “If anyone knows more about the subject than [Malone] does, God help them.” —Larry McMurtry, from In a Narrow Grave “With Country Music USA, Bill Malone wrote the Bible for country music history and scholarship. This groundbreaking work, now updated, is the definitive chronicle of the sweeping drama of the country music experience.” —Chet Flippo, former editorial director, CMT: Country Music Television and CMT.com “Country Music USA is the definitive history of country music and of the artists who shaped its fascinating worlds.” —William Ferris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Since its first publication in 1968, Bill C. Malone’s Country Music USA has won universal acclaim as the definitive history of American country music. Starting with the music’s folk roots in the rural South, it traces country music from the early days of radio into the twenty-first century. In this fiftieth-anniversary edition, Malone, the featured historian in Ken Burns’s 2019 documentary on country music, has revised every chapter to offer new information and fresh insights. Coauthor Tracey Laird tracks developments in country music in the new millennium, exploring the relationship between the current music scene and the traditions from which it emerged.