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| Title | : | Lefty Frizzell: The Honky-Tonk Life of Country Music's Greatest Singer |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.87 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316156205 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
Hoosier Hayseed said Thrilled To Hear His Story:. Lefty Frizzell has been lurking in my memory since I was just a little kid, and first becoming aware of what life was all about.I remember hearing him on the car radio when I was about 8 or 10 years old, and hearing the adults remark about how he bent his voice all around, wondering, "How does he do that"?Well, he was definite. "Lefty -- Truly the greatest" according to Lefty Fan Ed. This writer was a pop music fan during the forties. Country music was not even "listenable", as far as I was concerned. Then my sister had me listen to Lefty's "I Want To Be With You Always." I asked her to play it again, and I was hooked. First, just Lefty, then later other country singers --the Hanks, Carl Smith, Mary Robbin. "Lefty Taught Us All How To Sing" Cooper presents the life of Lefty with little untold. Lefty was all too human and, one suspects, more a victim of his life and times than an instigator. His music was his creation and his escape. No other country singer influenced following generations as did Lefty. Alabama said it best in one single line of a song, "and Lefty
A biography of one of the founding fathers of modern country music. Until he died in 1975, Lefty Frizzell's life was one of endless touring, drug and alcohol abuse, prison, divorce, decline and resurgence.
From Publishers Weekly Growing up in rural Texas, the son of an itinerant oil-field worker, Frizzell (1928-1975) taught himself to play the guitar and learned to sing by imitating his idol, Jimmy Rodgers. Cooper, an editor for the Country Music Foundation, builds on interviews with Frizzell's late wife and his children to chronicle the sad life of a popular singer and composer who revolutionized country music and died physically and emotionally exhausted, broke and alienated from his family. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. By the time he was 19, he had a following, a wife and a baby and a six-month jail sentence for rape. Photos not seen by PW. A few years later, he rocketed to fame with "If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time," "Lost Love Blues" and other songs he composed and performed in his unique sliding, yodeling vocal style. Nai
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