True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass: Jimmy Martin
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (905 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826516807 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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I Did Not Want to Put It Down RB How would you like to be backstage at the Grand Old Opry live on Saturday night? All you need to do is get past the guards at the gate, find a parking spot, get through the stage door, and have a knowledge of where the narrow passages go. Tom Piazza received a 2 hour tour that neither he nor the reader will e. Mark J. Fowler said A Snapshot of the King of Bluegrass. Tom Piazza has written a piece which captures with photographic detail several hours spent in the company of the Mad A Snapshot of the King of Bluegrass Tom Piazza has written a piece which captures with photographic detail several hours spent in the company of the Mad 3-chord Genius (as Marty Stuart writes in his forward) and Self-Proclaimed King of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin. This "book" is essentially a fleshed out magazine article, but it's a good one. Less . -chord Genius (as Marty Stuart writes in his forward) and Self-Proclaimed King of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin. This "book" is essentially a fleshed out magazine article, but it's a good one. Less . sequel please!!! Keep It Real What a great little book!Jimmy Martin, arguably the greatest bluegrass singer who ever lived, is one of music's most colorful and fascinating studies. I've seen films about him, and even wrote a song about him ("Jimmy Martin", recorded by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band recently), and listened to many recordings.
Step inside--it's a fascinating, scary world, and you'll never be the same again.--Tim O'BrienBaptized in the same fire that gave us Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, this reigning King of Bluegrass Jimmy Martin is no doubt a charter member of the elite fraternity of southern musicians that helped forge what the world now knows as bluegrass, rockabilly, country, and rock 'n' roll music. Time spent with the King of Bluegrass is not for the lily-livered or the faint of heart.--Marty Stuart, from the Foreword . one of the most engaging, revealing, funny and sad books ever written about a Nashville musician.--The TennesseanTom Piazza unlocks the back door of bluegrass in his three-hundred-and-sixty-degree portrait of Jimmy Martin's tragic genius
True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass is the funny, scary, and powerfully poignant portrait of one of the legends of American music.Co-published with the Country Music Foundation Press. Always an enigmatic figure, Martin was as famous for his temper as he was for his talent. That invitation was the start of a career that spanned half a century and culminated with Martin’s induction into the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Hall of Honor. Jimmy Martin was just twenty-two years old when Bill Monroe asked him to join the Blue Grass Boys. On assignment from the Oxford American magazine, fiction writer and music critic Tom Piazza drove from his home in New Orleans to Nashville to interview Martin and found himself pitched headlong into a world he couldn’t have anticipated. Martin’s mercurial personality drew the writer into a series of escalating encounters (with mean dogs, broken-down cars, and near electrocution), culminating in a harrowing and unforgettab
He lives in New Orleans and is working on a novel. Tom Piazza's writing on American music has appeared in the Sunday New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The Village Voice. He is the author of The Guide to Classic Recorded Jazz (University of Iowa Press), which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award for music