Looking to get lost: adventures in Music and writing If there is a leading figure among writers on American popular music, it has to be Peter Guralnick. He lifts the hood on his writing process and relationships in this anthology as he shares memorable encounters with icons like Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, and many more.
More Information Peterguralnick.com Nashville Sound: An Illustrated Timeline This is no boring college textbook. It’s a coffee-table sized, photo-filled celebration of Nashville’s characters, landmarks, and signature sounds. Nashville Sound is about not just Nashville’s country music, but its roots in Big Band, rhythm and blues, gospel, Christian, jazz, and classical, as well as the music industry in Music City from the 19th century until today. It’s full of interesting facts and historical images. Don is Curb Professor of Music Industry History at Belmont University. He’s an internationallyrecognized country music historian and writer.
More Information HERE Deep Cuts Trivia: Intelligence Test for the Musically Obsessed Deep Cuts: Intelligence Test for the Musically Obsessed is a tasty book of 400 music trivia questions, from the easy to the esoteric. Perfect for that freak who pores over album covers and liner notes. Deep Cuts is sure to test the trivia chops of even the most ardent music fan. We have a copy in our office and it’s our guilty pleasure.
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Tracy Lawrence’s 14th Annual Mission Possible Turkey Fry & Concert Country Music Legend and award-winning philanthropist, Tracy Lawrence, has announced the return of his wildly successful charity event, the 15th Annual Mission:Possible Turkey Fry and Benefit Concert. This year’s special guests include Tim McGraw, Cole Swindell, John Rich, Mitchell Tenpenny and more. Since the event’s conception in 2006, it has helped to raise nearly one million dollars and prepared approximately 93,000 meals. This year, the two part event will take place on November 24th in Nashville with the turkey fry kicking the day off in the parking lot of Nashville Rescue Mission. Due to current health and safety guidelines, this year’s concert portion will be a virtual livestream event from the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville via streaming platform, Talk Shop Live. The star-studded benefit concert will feature Tracy with special guests. For the first time, the concert will be free to watch on the Talk Shop Live platform. Merchandise will also be available and the proceeds will go to feeding the homeless at the Nashville Rescue Mission. Continuing the spirit of giving, Tracy will also be hosting an online auction that will run Nov. 17 - Dec. 2 -- just in time for Giving Tuesday. All Mission:Possible events will follow Metro Health COVID safety guidelines. For more information visit: turkeyfry.org.
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