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Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives
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Overview
Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly’s Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn’s girl-power anthem “The Pill”; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt’s unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on a post-9/11 survivor on the run; Emmylou Harris offers a gateway through paralyzing grief; and Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it.
Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who make them, Woman Walk the Line is a very personal collection of essays from some of America’s most intriguing women writers. It speaks to the ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in various states of grace and imperfectionand ultimately how music transforms not just the person making it, but also the listener.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781477322581 |
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Publisher: | University of Texas Press |
Publication date: | 10/05/2021 |
Series: | American Music Series |
Pages: | 240 |
Sales rank: | 1,058,334 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Maybelle Carter: The Root of It All (Caryn Rose)
- Lil Hardin: That's How I Got to Memphis (Alice Randall)
- Wanda Jackson: When She Starts Eruptin' (Holly George-Warren )
- Hazel Dickens: The Plangent Bone (Ronni Lundy)
- June Carter Cash: Eulogy for a Mother (Rosanne Cash)
- Brenda Lee: Rare Peer (Taylor Swift)
- Bobbie Gentry: Let the Mystery Be (Meredith Ochs)
- Loretta Lynn: The Pill (Madison Vain)
- Dolly Parton: Long Island Down Home Blues (Nancy Harrison)
- Emmylou Harris: Common Ground in an Uncommon Love (Ali Berlow)
- Barbara Mandrell: Lubbock in the Rearview Mirror (Shelby Morrison)
- Tanya Tucker: Punk Country and Sex Wide Open (Holly Gleason)
- Rita Coolidge: A Dark-Eyed Cherokee Country Gal (Kandia Crazy Horse)
- Linda Ronstadt: Canciones di Corazon Salvage (Grace Potter)
- Rosanne Cash: Expectations and Letting Go (Deborah Sprague)
- The Judds: Comfort Far from Home (Courtney E. Smith)
- k.d. lang: Flawless, Fearless (Kelly McCartney)
- Lucinda Williams, Flesh & Ghosts, Dreams + Marrow (Lady Goodman)
- Mary Chapin Carpenter: Every Hometown Girl (Cynthia Sanz)
- Patty Loveless: Beyond What You Know (Wendy Pearl)
- Shania Twain: But the Little Girls Understand (Emily Yahr)
- Alison Krauss: Draw Your Own Map (Aubrie Sellers)
- Terri Clark: Better Things to Do (Amy Elizabeth McCarthy)
- Taylor Swift: Through the Eyes of a Critic, of a Mom (Elysa Gardner)
- Kacey Musgraves: Follow Your Arrow (Dacey Orr)
- Rhiannon Giddens: A Gift Past the Songs (Caroline Randall Williams)
- Patty Griffin: Remembering to Breathe (Kim Ruehl)
- Thank Yous
- Contributors
What People are Saying About This
"Woman Walk the Line radiates heartfelt sincerity, revealing how women in country musicworld-famous and little-known, black and white, vintage and contemporaryhelped shape the lives of many different kinds of women. It’s concrete evidence that country should and does belong just as much to women as to men."
"These personal storiesfrom women, about women and the way music impacts livesare entertaining, thought-provoking, and, most of all, memorable."
"Woman Walk the Line is tender, tough, raw, informative, and emotionally intelligent, carefully framing twenty-seven of country music’s most evocative and enduring artists. It delivers truth and beauty on every page. I bow in earnest."
"Woman Walk the Line is a deeply moving and profound look at the power of music and women. This book captures some of the best music writing you'll ever encounter, but it does much more than that. This is a book for this moment in America, a time when we all need to be reminded of the remarkable impact of women on all facets of our lives. Here we witness their joys, their sorrows, their determination and grit and defiance. More than anything, though, we witness their strength and brilliance."
"I absolutely loved this book. Whether we are country girls or city girls, we can all be inspired by its pure generous emotion, transforming pain into empowerment. But it’s not just for girls. This book is for everyone."