Download or read book CONFESSIONS OF A BANJO PICKER written by KENNETH CLARKE and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a Banjo Picker, who roams the world ‘pickin’, and a-grinnin’, as a way of life. Performing in saloons in Canada, or shooting spaghetti westerns in Italy, to running the Don Ho Show out of Hawaii, to smoking cigars with President Nixon, this guy has done it all. From being invited by Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter for dinner in the Georgia Governors mansion, to a western hoe-down in the East Wing of the White House, to shivering naked in a padded room in an Insane Asylum, or can you believe it, performing on stage with Charley Manson. ‘Confessions of a Banjo Player’ leaves you breathless with disbelief while leaving you to ask, “Can these adventures, and miss-adventures, really happen to an ordinary person”? Yes they can. They did! So climb aboard, this trip should be fun, as well as informative.
Download or read book Confessions of a Barbarian written by David Petersen and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconoclast, activist, philosopher, and spiritual father of the environmental movement, the author of The Monkeywrench Gang was also an avid journal keeper. Here Abbey's longtime friend David Petersen showcases the best of these journals, complete with Abbey's philosophical musings, notes, character sketches, and illustrations.
Download or read book Confessions of a Happy Christian written by Ziglar, Zig and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1993-09-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this moving autobiography, Zig Ziglar puts to test the notion that born-again Christians should wander through lifebearing long faces and short pocketbooks. Dynamic, charismatic, and a spectacular success by any standard, Zig and his life story are proof positive that you don't "pay" the price for serving the Lord but, instead, you can enjoy the NOW benefits of serving Him.
Download or read book The Banjo Player written by Erin Lark Maples and published by Lodestar Literary. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this cozy crafts & hobbies mystery by award-winning author, Erin Lark Maples. As some families come together, others are torn apart... Elizabeth Blau thought she had it all – new friends, a growing business, and even a blossoming love life. But when a long-lost resident of Sheridan County returns, the tranquil melodies of Elizabeth's existence are shattered, and a symphony of murder plays against the stunning backdrop of the Bighorn Mountains. As bodies pile up like ominous notes, Elizabeth finds herself entangled in a web of family secrets and lies. With each twist and turn, she must unravel the tangled chords of the case before the killer strikes another deadly note. The Banjo Player is the fifth book in the Sheridan County Mysteries cozy series, although all books in the seriescan be read as standalones. A cozy mystery centered on family, friends, and a female amateur sleuth living a western way of life, make the series a special one to take on your next trip!
Download or read book Music Making in America written by Dick Weissman and published by Frederick Ungar. This book was released on 1982 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces written by Carrie Stuart Parks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-01-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draw amazingly accurate portraits starting today! Even if you're an absolute beginner, you can render strikingly realistic faces and self-portraits! Instructor and FBI-trained artist Carrie Stuart Parks makes it simple with foolproof step-by-step instructions that are fun and easy to follow. You'll quickly begin to: • Master proportions and map facial features accurately • Study shapes within a composition and draw them realistically • Use value, light and shading to add life and depth to any portrait • Render tricky details, including eyes, noses, mouths and hair Proven, hands-on exercises and before-and-after examples from Parks' students ensure instant success! It's all the guidance and inspiration you need to draw realistic faces with precision, confidence and style!
Download or read book Wasn t that a Time written by Ronald D. Cohen and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in paper! Proceedings of the May 1991 Richard Reuss Memorial Folk Music Conference, held at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Download or read book Robert Morgan written by Robert M. West and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than fifty years Robert Morgan has brought to life the landscape, history and culture of the Southern Appalachia of his youth. In 30 acclaimed volumes, including poetry, short story collections, novels and nonfiction prose, he has celebrated an often marginalized region. His many honors include four NEA Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as television appearances (The Best American Poetry: New Stories from the South, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards). This first book on Morgan collects appreciations and analyses by some of his most dedicated readers, including fellow poets, authors, critics and scholars. An unpublished interview with him is included, along with an essay by him on the importance of sense of place, and a bibliography of publications by and about him.
Download or read book I m With the Band Confessions of a Groupie written by Pamela Des Barres and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, New York Times bestseller, I’m With The Band has been reprinted throughout the years, all over the world. This is the stylish, exuberant and sweetly innocent tale of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s. Beginning with Pamela Des Barres’ early obsession with Elvis, her own Beatlemania madness, and her fierce determination to meet the musicians who rocked her world, I’m With The Band illuminates the glory days of scintillating encounters with musical gods including Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger and Keith Moon. A girl just wanting to have fun, Des Barres immersed herself in the drugs, danger and ecstasy of the freewheeling 1960s. As a member of The GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously), an all-female group masterminded by Frank Zappa, Des Barres was in the thick of the most revolutionary renaissance in the history of modern popular music. She travelled with Led Zeppelin; lived in sin with Don Johnson; turned down a date with Elvis Presley; and was close friends with Robert Plant, Gram Parsons and Ray Davies. She had affairs with Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Waylon Jennings, Chris Hillman, Noel Redding, and Jim Morrison, among others. A woman in possession of her own destiny, Des Barres blazed a trail for women’s life-writing, standing up for female voices and experience everywhere. From original diaries, told with great warmth, chutzpah and joie de vivre, this is a frank memoir that wears its heart on its sleeve, and recalls one of rock ’n’ roll’s most thrilling eras. This edition contains new material from the author, including her response to the vitriolic shaming of groupies, and a foreword by Roisin O’Connor, rock journalist and music correspondent for the Independent.
Download or read book The Big Question written by Chuck Barris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the revolutionary mind of television's legendary mad genius, a story of money, sex, greed, revenge, murder -- and reality TV The year is 2012, and as the Most Famous Television Producer in the World is walking down a wintry New York City block, he's accosted by a homeless-looking cripple who, like everyone else, insists he has the formula for the greatest TV show of all time. As it turns out, he does: Contestants will compete for one hundred million dollars. If they win, they're rich. If they lose, they face immediate on-camera execution. As the Producer begins scheming to steal the idea and revive his fading career, The Big Question introduces the extraordinary characters who will ultimately become the show's contestants -- a brilliantly rendered, Dickensian cast that includes the seventy-something Vera Bundle, with a taste for scotch and encyclopedias; Arthur Durch, a convicted sex offender-turned-relationship therapist; Retta Mae Wagons, a sixteen-year-old prostitute with an IQ of 170 and an ex-con-turned-Muslim fundamentalist boyfriend who doesn't appreciate her; Billy Constable, the Kentucky rube who gets off a bus in New York and promptly finds himself in trouble with the Mob; and Father Brady, the devout Catholic priest with a mortifying secret to hide at any cost. As the first episode is broadcast live in front of millions, the audience, the cast, and the crew behind the scenes do the unthinkable: they sit and watch, rapt and glassy-eyed, as the final contestant left on stage meets an unimaginable fate. To say The Big Question is a novel of greed and immorality would be putting it lightly. But to read this book without laughing out loud at every page would be impossible. This is more than just a funny book, though. With uncanny precision and razor-sharp wit, the inimitable Chuck Barris reveals the inconceivable lengths to which people will go for those priceless fifteen minutes, the fascination we have with the little black box in our homes -- and the horrifying deeds done in the name of entertainment.
Download or read book JEMF Quarterly written by John Edwards Memorial Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Retrospection and Revision in Modern and Contemporary Art Literature and Music written by Mette Gieskes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary book investigates the various ways in which North American and European modern and contemporary artists, authors, and musicians have returned to earlier works of their own, engaging in inventive revivals and transformations of the past in the present. The book is distinctive in its focus on such revisits, as well as in the diversity of art forms under review: in addition to visual art, the book explores fiction, poetry, literary criticism, film, rock music, and philosophy. This scope, together with the time-span covered in the book, from the 1850s to the twenty-first century, allows for a broad view on retrospection and revision. The case studies presented here offer a multifaceted exploration of the widely different goals to which practitioners of the arts have made retrospection and revision functional against the background of cultural, social, political, and personal forces.
Download or read book How to Play the Five String Banjo written by Pete Seeger and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the basic manual for banjo players at any level. Covers all the fundamentals of strumming, hammering-on, and pulling-off. Includes folk and traditional songs all with melody line, lyrics, and banjo accompaniment, and solos in standard notation and tablature.
Download or read book Sounds of the South written by Daniel Watkins Patterson and published by Southern Folklife Collection. This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the familiar forms of Mississippi Delta Blues and mainstream country music, the vernacular music of the South also ranges from the ceremonial music of Native Americans, to "shout" singing in South Carolina sea islands, Cajun fiddling, and Mexican-American conjunto music. Sounds of the South assesses past efforts to document these richly varied musical forms and the challenges facing future work. "Sounds of the South"--a 1989 conference that gathered record collectors, folklorists, musicians, record producers, librarians, archivists, and traditional music lovers--celebrated the official opening of the Southern Folklife Collection with the John Edwards Memorial Collection at the library of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Based on that conference, Sounds of the South includes Bill Malone's account of his own career as fan and scholar of country music, Paul Oliver on European blues scholarship, and Ray Funk on researching Black Gospel Quartets. The contributors look at a number of topics related to the role of the archivist/folklorist in recording and documenting the music of the South--evaluating past fieldwork and current needs in documentation, archival issues, prospects for the publication of recordings, and changes in music and technology. Written in an accessible style, this volume will be of interest to all those concerned with preserving the music of the American South.
Download or read book Tommy Thompson written by Lewis M. Stern and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tommy Thompson arrived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1963, smitten by folk and traditional Appalachian music. In 1972, he teamed with Bill Hicks and Jim Watson to form the nontraditional string band the Red Clay Ramblers. Mike Craver joined in 1973, and Jack Herrick in 1976. Over time, musicians including Clay Buckner, Bland Simpson and Chris Frank joined Tommy, who played with the band until 1994. Drawing on interviews and correspondence, and the personal papers of Thompson, the author depicts a life that revolved around music and creativity. Appendices cover Thompson's banjos, his discography and notes on his collaborative lyric writing.
Download or read book The Ultimate Banjo Songbook written by Janet Davis and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Banjo). A great collection of banjo classics that comes with audio examples of the licks. Songs include: Alabama Jubilee * Bye Bye Love * Duelin' Banjos * The Entertainer * Foggy Mountain Breakdown * Great Balls of Fire * Lady of Spain * Rawhide * (Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) * Rocky Top * San Antonio Rose * Tennessee Waltz * UFO-TOFU * You Are My Sunshine * and more.
