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[Christopher J. Oglesby] ✓ Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music) Ø Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music) "WOW!" according to Carol L. Hopkins. If you're curious about how it all started, wonder why this little area of Texas produced some of the greatest artists of our time, you NEED to read this book. Some of the artists covered are geniuses only slightly this side of mad; they are all amazing and one could come to believe, as some do, that aliens may have landed in Lubbock and be among them. Or maybe it's just Buddy Holly's ghost. How else do you explain the wild whimsy of a Bruce Hancock, the inc
| Title | : | Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.72 (823 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0292714343 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 302 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
Lubbock needed beauty, poetry, humor, and it needed to get up and shake its communal ass a bit or go mad from loneliness and boredom; so Lubbock created the amazing likes of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, Terry Allen, and Joe Ely.". "There is this empty desolation that I could fill if I picked up a pen and wrote, or picked up a guitar and played," he says. This kaleidoscopic portrait of the West Texas music scene gets to the heart of what it takes to create art in an isolated, often inhospitable environment. Others, such as Joe Ely, praise the freedom of mind they find on the wide open plains. From Buddy Holly and the Crickets to the Flatlanders, Terry Allen, and Natalie Maines, Lubbock, Texas, has produced songwriters, musicians, and artists as prolifically as cotton, conservatives, and windstorms. Some speak of the need to rebel against conventional attitudes that threaten to limit their horizons. Their answers are revealing. As Oglesby says, "Necessity is the mother of creation. Jimmie Dale Gilmore says, "I think there is a large measure of this Lubbock phenomenon that is just luck, and that is the part that you cannot explain."As a whole, the interviews create a portrait not only of Lubbock's musicians and artists, but also of the musical community that has sustained them, including venues such as the legendary Cotton Club and the original Stubb's Barbecue. Is it just that "there's nothing else to do," as some
Oglesby received his bachelor of arts and doctor of jurisprudence degrees from Texas Tech University. He is publisher and editor of virtualubbock, a Web site dedicated to West Texas music and culture. . He lives and works in Austin. About the Author Christopher J. Oglesby grew up in Lubbock's Tech Terrace neighborhood (former home of Buddy Holly, Joe Ely, and Angela Strehli, among others), where he spent years listening to and watching the artists featured in this book
He is publisher and editor of virtualubbock, a Web site dedicated to West Texas music and culture. He lives and works in Austin. Oglesby grew up in Lubbock's Tech Terrace neighborhood (former home of Buddy Holly, Joe Ely, and Angela Strehli, among others), where he spent years listening to and watching the artists featured in this book. Christopher J. . Oglesby received his bachelor of arts and doctor of jurisprudence degrees from T
"WOW!" according to Carol L. Hopkins. If you're curious about how it all started, wonder why this little area of Texas produced some of the greatest artists of our time, you NEED to read this book. Some of the artists covered are geniuses only slightly this side of mad; they are all amazing and one could come to believe, as some do, that aliens may have landed in Lubbock and be among them. Or maybe it's just Buddy Holly's ghost. How else do you explain the wild whimsy of a Bruce Hancock, the incredible breadth of a Terry Allen,. the other Texas music capital Curt Howard having lived in texas for awhile, I enjoy the musical heritage of the lone star state and I am an avid reader of Texas Music magazine. Apart from Austin, which is undeniably one of the American musical capitals, the other nugget of texas is Lubbock and the lubbock area, birthplace of Buddy Holly. Lubbock is a unique place in that it's musical legacy is basically completely at odds with Lubbock, it's a musical legacy that is not only completely organic, but borne of a struggle for legitimacy. "Great Read" according to Aphra Wannabe. Something about West Texas produces fine musicians. This collection of interviews with some of the best is a revealing look at the atmosphere and environment that gave rise to some of my favorite musicians.
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