Read Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass by Richard Smith, Richard D. Smith Online
# Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass à PDF Download by ^ Richard Smith, Richard D. Smith eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass Five Stars very complete and fully informative of this megastar of Bluegrass-the information is high quality and fully informative -great reading. "Overall Interesting" according to TheHighlander. Who was Bill Monroe? Everyone who knows anything about country or bluegrass music knows the name but do you know the man? Most likely not. This book sheds light on who he was. What made the man tick from his childhood and throughout the hardships of his adult life.A fiercly proud man and an extremely h
| Title | : | Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.15 (940 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306810549 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
Featuring over 120 interviews, this scrupulously researched work—a Chicago Tribune Choice Selection, New York Times Notable Book, and Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2000—stands as the authoritative biography of a true giant of American music.. Smith has created a three-dimensional portrait of this brilliant, complex, and contradictory man. Considering the range of stars that have claimed Bill Monroe as an influence—Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Jerry Garcia are just a few—it can be said that no single artist has had as broad an impact on American popular music as he did. Delving into everything from Monroe's professional successes to his bitter rivalries, from his isolated childhood to his reckless womanizing, veteran bluegrass journalist Richard D. For sixty years, Monroe was a star at the Grand Ole Opry, and when he died in 1996, he was universally hailed as "the Father of Bluegrass." But the personal life of this taciturn figure remained largely unknown
Indeed, Smith remarks that "without exception," none of Monroe's platonic or romantic women friends had been interviewed before. The legendary mandolinist and bandleader Bill Monroe wove his personal vision through more than 60 tireless years of recording and performing, inventing almost single-handedly the music that is now known--in a nod to his first band, the Blue Grass Boys--as bluegrass. These women reveal a second Bill Monroe, relaxed and gentle in private despite his imperious manner onstage. Much of the book relies on the archives of the late Ralph Rinzler, a Smithsonian folklorist whose plans to write a Monroe biography were thwarted by his untimely death. Surely, it won't be the last--a testament to t
Five Stars very complete and fully informative of this megastar of Bluegrass-the information is high quality and fully informative -great reading. "Overall Interesting" according to TheHighlander. Who was Bill Monroe? Everyone who knows anything about country or bluegrass music knows the name but do you know the man? Most likely not. This book sheds light on who he was. What made the man tick from his childhood and throughout the hardships of his adult life.A fiercly proud man and an extremely hard worker who demanded as much from his band as he did himself. Thi. flawed artist, perfect art, worthy biography This is the first major biography of Bill Monroe, and it won't be the last. Some, no doubt, will be written in more eloquent prose -- Richard D. Smith's is at best pedestrian -- but it's hard to imagine a future biography that could manage to be as balanced and as affectionate without ever sliding into sentimentality, apologetics, or hagiography. Though no sensible obs
Download Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass
Download as PDF : Click Here
Download as DOC : Click Here
Download as RTF : Click Here