Download or read book Fate Flukes and Fame in Bluegrass Music written by Dennis Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluegrass music legends, like the rugged back-country farmers they often sang about, knew the value of tedious hard work and perseverance. Instead of crop-killing droughts and devastating dustbowls, they often faced years of playing their songs to rowdy drunks in smoke-filled dives. Year by year, they patiently tended their bluegrass "field of dreams" with loving hands and blistered fingers. As they practiced their instruments and perfected their high-lonesome harmonies, even the city slickers among them seem to rhythmically drift back to an earlier time. They settled into an age when news of the world didn't flash by on non-stop news channels. It was tossed on the porch by a young man on a bicycle, to peruse with morning coffee and a pipe-full of Prince Albert. Although that slower pace could be comforting, it sometimes felt like time was standing still. Now and then, though, life could suddenly pick up speed, and their musical fields would flower and turn to solid gold. Jimmy Martin's crop flourished, for example, when he was fired from his job for singing too much. Carter and Ralph Stanley's golden harvest sprang from a singing mailman. And young Earl Scruggs' musical seeds began to spout after a childhood argument. Join the legends of bluegrass as they follow the furrows of fate, flukes and fame.
Download or read book Fate Flukes and Fame in Bluegrass Music Legends written by Dennis Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parking lot of a bluegrass festival tells it all. You'll find mud-caked farm trucks, freshly washed SUVs and college-stickered sports cars...all parked side by side. For a few hours, the barriers that usually separate the stock brokers from the grocery clerks and the housewives from the college professors have somehow dissolved.Floating over and weaving in amongst the audience, are the voices and music of another time. Those voices and that music reminds them that although life was different back then, it was filled with the same heartaches, joys and dreams that visit us all. Those voices often originated in ancient Scotland and Ireland and soared across the ocean to echo through the Appalachian mountains. Then, as the fiddle cries and the tenor reaches for the sky, those ancient voices once again resonate through another generation.The stories behind the music are sometimes as colorful as the high-lonesome songs themselves. They are often flavored with the irony of the odd twists and turns of fortune. Earl Scruggs' mastery of the banjo, for example, was enhanced by a childhood argument. Jimmy Martin's entrance onto the bluegrass stage came after he was fired for singing on the job. Alison Krauss, a master of the bluegrass fiddle, actually wanted to play the piano. And Carter Stanley's guitar techniques sprang from a neighborhood "singing mailman."When you open the cover of the concise little booklet, you the bluegrass music legends-to-be as they travel down the elusive path of fate, flukes and fame.
Download or read book Fate Flukes Fame in Country and Bluegrass Music Legends written by Dennis Goodwin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Country and Bluegrass Music, with their pure and simple joys and sorrows, have forged a common bond among Texas cowboys, New York accountants and Oklahoma house-wives. This bond has not only connected the fans, but also bound together history's glittering array of Country and Bluegrass entertainers. One of the links connecting this patchwork assortment of music legends is a restless dream-hungry spirit. They lived on odd jobs and daydreams as they waited for fate to switch on their spotlight. Ironically, when that light finally beamed, it was often ignited by a spark that no one could have predicted. Merle Haggard, for instance, found his light through a prison vent during solitary confinement in San Quentin. Earl Scruggs' mastery of the banjo was enhanced by a childhood argument. With Roy Acuff, the beam of stardom would only glow after a near-tragic misfortune ruined his dream of a professional baseball career. Jimmy Martin's entrance onto the bluegrass stage came after he was fired for singing on the job. Loretta Lynn's world was illuminated by a friend's high-stakes deal. Carter Stanley's guitar techniques sprang from a "singing mailman." And Patsy Cline's spotlight was switched on by a song she didn't even want to sing. The stories of these fortunate twists of fate are often as intriguing as the Country and Bluegrass legends they produced. This book will let you join the solid gold legends of Country and Bluegrass music as they travel down the elusive path of fate, flukes and fame.
Download or read book Fate Flukes and Fame in Country Music written by Dennis Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fate Flukes and Fame in Country Music Booklet 3 written by Dennis Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fate Flukes and Fame in Country Music Booklet 2 written by Dennis Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fate Flukes and Fame in Country Music Legends written by Dennis Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, you will join country music legends as they step into the spotlight of fame. Country Music, with its pure and simple joys and sorrows, has forged a common bond among Texas cowboys, New York accountants and Oklahoma housewives. This bond has not only connected the fans, but also bound together history's glittering array of country entertainers. One of the links connecting this patchwork assortment of country music legends is a restless dream-hungry spirit. They lived on odd jobs and daydreams as they waited for fate to switch on their spotlight. Ironically, when that light finally beamed, it was often ignited by a spark that no one could have predicted. Merle Haggard, for instance, found his light through a prison vent during solitary confinement in San Quentin. With Roy Acuff, the beam of stardom would only glow after a near-tragic misfortune ruined his dream of a professional baseball career. Minnie Pearl spotted her light shining from the eyes of an Alabama farm lady. Loretta Lynn's world was illuminated by a friend's high-stakes deal. And Patsy Cline's spotlight was switched on by a song she didn't even want to sing. The stories of these fortunate twists of fate are often as intriguing as the country legends they produced. Join the solid gold legends of country music as they travel down the elusive path of fate, flukes and fame.
Download or read book Fate Flukes and Fame in Georgia s Music Legends written by Dennis L. Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductee Biographies 1991 2014 written by Gary Bartenstein and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Bluegrass Music Museum presents, for the first time in book form, carefully researched and engagingly written profiles of the pioneers of bluegrass music. The authors, who knew most of the Hall of Fame members personally, document not only the facts and career accomplishments of these men and women, but also capture a sense of their personalities and their impact upon fellow musicians and fans. The biographical sketches are accompanied by photographic portraits, many never-before published. A brilliant and multi-colored bluegrass mosaid emerges in this historical work, and handsome addition to the libraries of music lovers everywhere.
Download or read book On the Road with Janis Joplin written by John Byrne Cooke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Parade's Top Ten Rock n' Roll Reads As a road manager and filmmaker, he helped run the Janis Joplin show--and record it for posterity. Now he reveals the never-before-told story of his years with the young woman from Port Arthur who would become the first female rock and roll superstar--and depart the stage too soon. In 1967, as the new sound of rock and roll was taking over popular music, John Byrne Cooke was at the center of it all. As a member of D.A. Pennebaker's film crew, he witnessed the astonishing breakout performances of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival that June. Less than six months later, he was on a plane to San Francisco, taking a job as road manager for Janis and her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company. From then on, Cooke was Joplin's road manager amid a rotating cast of musicians and personnel, a constant presence behind the scenes as the woman called Pearl took the world by storm. Cooke was there when Janis made the difficult decision to leave Big Brother and form a new band. He was with her when the Kozmic Blues Band toured Europe in the spring of 1969, when they performed at Woodstock in August, and when Janis and Full Tilt Boogie took their famous Festival Express train trip across Canada. He accompanied Janis to her friend and mentor Ken Threadgill's 70th birthday party, and was at her side when she attended her tenth high school reunion in Port Arthur, Texas. This intimate memoir spans the years he spent with Janis, from her legendary rise to her tragic last days. Cooke tells the whole incredible story as only someone who lived it could. INCLUDES PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS
Download or read book The Talent Code written by Daniel Coyle and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? This groundbreaking work provides readers with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism. Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world’s talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything. • Deep Practice Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn’t know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice. • Ignition We all need a little motivation to get started. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues. Understanding how these signals work can help you ignite passion and catalyze skill development. • Master Coaching What are the secrets of the world’s most effective teachers, trainers, and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these “talent whisperers” to fuel passion, inspire deep practice, and bring out the best in their students. These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin, a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness, from Michelangelo’s to Michael Jordan’s. The good news about myelin is that it isn’t fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished. Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness, this book will not only change the way you think about talent, but equip you to reach your own highest potential.
Download or read book Songs in the Key of Z written by Irwin Chusid and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irwin Chusid profiles a number of "outsider" musicians - those who started as "outside" and eventually came "in" when the listening public caught up with their radical ideas. Included are The Shaggs, Tiny Tim, Syd Barrett, Joe Meek, Captain Beefheart, The Cherry Sisters, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, Wesley Wilis, and others.
Download or read book Complexity written by M. Mitchell Waldrop and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post). In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell—and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. This book is their story—the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the twenty-first century. “Lucidly shows physicists, biologists, computer scientists and economists swapping metaphors and reveling in the sense that epochal discoveries are just around the corner . . . [Waldrop] has a special talent for relaying the exhilaration of moments of intellectual insight.” —The New York Times Book Review “Where I enjoyed the book was when it dove into the actual question of complexity, talking about complex systems in economics, biology, genetics, computer modeling, and so on. Snippets of rare beauty here and there almost took your breath away.” —Medium “[Waldrop] provides a good grounding of what may indeed be the first flowering of a new science.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Big Blues written by Paul Carroll and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reporter who spent seven years covering IBM for the Wall Street Journal tells the inside story of the giant corporation's fall from grace. This edition includes an afterword updating IBM's fortunes after Louis Gerstner's first year as the company's CEO.
Download or read book Composing a Life written by Mary Catherine Bateson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reissue of Bateson's treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women uses their personal stories to delve into the creative potential of the complex lives of today, where ambitions are constantly refocused on new goals and possibilities.
Download or read book Bargainin for Salvation written by Steven Heine and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Throughout his various stages, Dylan's work reveals an affinity with the Zen worldview, where enlightenment can be attained through self-contemplation and intuition rather than through faith and devotion. Much has been made of Dylan's Christian periods, but never before has a book engaged Dylan's deep and rich oeuvre through a Buddhist lens."--Back cover.
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