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! Merle Haggard: The Running Kind (American Music (University of Texas)) ↠ PDF Download by * David Cantwell eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Merle Haggard: The Running Kind (American Music (University of Texas)) Reads like a blog written by fan I was not impressed. While there is some worthwhile information, too much of the book reads like blog. One bothersome stylistic complaint: the author has the habit of using hyphenated phrases, e.g. "the be-proud-of-what-you-got closing track" (page 127), as adjectival clauses entirely too often. Once or twice in a book would be acceptable, but there are times he uses them twice in one sentence. The book would have benefited from the author working with a good edi
| Title | : | Merle Haggard: The Running Kind (American Music (University of Texas)) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.70 (789 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0292717717 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
. Music critic and longtime Haggard fan, David Cantwell is the coauthor of the acclaimed Heartaches by the Number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles, and his work has appeared in the Oxford American, Salon, and No Depression, among other publications
Now here is a book that takes a serious look at Haggard’s place in American culture and art, and that is no small thing. "An incisive, critical analysis of one of the most complicated and misunderstood artists in country musicBoth the Haggard fanatic and the casual country music fan will find their appreciation enriched." (Kirkus Reviews 2013-08-01)"He recounts the high times when the Hag could seemingly do no wrong, as well as his lost decade of the 1990s, when the hot country radio format pushed the old man aside in favor of guys with hats and gals named Shania. Also of interest is a short chapter where Cantwell compares and contrasts the lives and careers of Hag and his contemporary Johnny Cash. It&r
In 2011 he was feted as a Kennedy Center Honoree. Merle Haggard has enjoyed artistic and professional triumphs few can match. Covering the entire breadth of his career, Cantwell focuses especially on the 1960s and 1970s, when Haggard created some of his best-known and most influential music, which helped invent the America we live in today. He’s released dozens of studio albums and another half dozen or more live ones, performed upwards of ten thousand concerts, been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and seen his songs performed by artists as diverse as Lynryd Skynyrd, Elvis Costello, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, the Grateful Dead, and Bob Dylan. He’s charted more than a hundred country hits, including thirty-eight number ones. Listening closely to a masterpiece-crowded catalogue (including songs such as “Okie from Muskogee,” “Sing Me Back Home,” “Mama Tried,” “Working Man Blues,” “Kern River,” “White Line Fever,” “Today I Started Loving You Again,” and “If We Make It through December,” among many more), Can
Reads like a blog written by fan I was not impressed. While there is some worthwhile information, too much of the book reads like blog. One bothersome stylistic complaint: the author has the habit of using hyphenated phrases, e.g. "the be-proud-of-what-you-got closing track" (page 127), as adjectival clauses entirely too often. Once or twice in a book would be acceptable, but there are times he uses them twice in one sentence. The book would have benefited from the author working with a good editor.. Five Stars Ann Williams Great. The Sort of Thoughtful Analysis Merle has Long Deserved Mark K. Mcdonough Merle Haggard's a national treasure - and I say that as a guy who spent his fair share of time wearing "Roman sandals." I think I may have even disrespected the college dean once or twice.OK, now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's talk about the book. You will really enjoy this book as long as you understand what it's *not.* It's not a detailed biography, it's not a note-by-note analysis of recording sessions, and it's not a collection of gossip. There's enough gossip and biographical material to keep the whole thing from getting dry, but mostly David C
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