Parton, Dolly
Summary: "For the first time ever, legendary singer-songwriter Dolly Parton brings you behind the lyrics of 175 of her songs to reveal the personal stories and vibrant memories that have inspired sixty years of songwriting. Lushly illustrated and told in Dolly's inimitable voice, this rich collection offers an intimate, exclusive look at the colorful life, prolific career, and rags-to-rhinestones...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 921 PARTON, DOLLY PARRandall, Alice
Summary: "Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Privilege Publishing/Atria 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For Rayna James and Deacon Claybourne, the road to intimacy is rocky as ever. Devastated by his sister's death, jealous of Rayna's focus on a sexy recording artist and unsettled in his new role as Maddie's father, Deacon lashes out, forcing Rayna to make some agonizing choices. And, despite having a new baby and a hit movie, Juliette Barnes is spiraling downward in a haze of partying, drugs and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Behind the music of Nashville lies a web of betrayal, heartbreak, and rivalry second to none. Rayna James is the Queen of Country, but there's a new 'royal' on the rise. Meet Juliette Barnes, a hot, young diva poised to knock Rayna off her throne, both on the charts and in the heart of Rayna's lead guitarist and former lover, Deacon Claybourne. All twenty-one riveting episodes from the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NASSummary: Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes are at the top of their game, but in Nashville, the higher you rise, the farther you fall. In the aftermath of her mother's death, Juliette is poised to shine brighter than ever, until a sordid scandal threatens to destroy her. Meanwhile, after Rayna nearly loses her life (and her voice) in a horrific accident, she bounces back with her own record label and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABC Studios 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NASShaver, Billy Joe.
Contents: Freedom's child -- Good ol' USA -- That's why the man in black sings the blues -- Honey chile -- We -- Wild cow gravy -- Corsicana daily sun -- Day by day -- That's what she said last night -- Drinkin' back -- Deja blues -- (with Todd Snider) -- Hold on to yours (and I'll hold on to mine) -- Melody -- Magnolia mother's love -- Merry Christmas to you -- (hidden bonus track) -- Necessary Evil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compadre Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY SHAContents: Habbie doobie -- Pain -- Bondurant women -- Dream along -- GOne -- My way -- Superstition -- TX jelly -- Pretty flowers -- Shakin' all over -- Trading paint.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY TEXLeamer, Laurence.
Summary: Through interviews with stars, managers, songwriters, and executives at the 1996 annual week-long Fan Fair country music event at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds, Leamer explores how country music stars became successful and why country music has become so popular throughout the U.S. Includes interviews with Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, Reba McEntire, Mindy McCready, Shania Twain, Wynonna Judd,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 LEASummary: Amid the ashes of post-WWII Japan, the bittersweet sounds of American traditional country music drifted through the radio airwaves. Although intended for the U.S. occupying forces, a vast 'ghost audience' of young Japanese quickly warmed to the soothing, yet foreign, sounds. Since falling in love with the music in the 1950s, Charlie Nagatani has lived to play and spread country music throughout...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FARHertz, Kellen
Summary: When aspiring songwriter Tenney gets invited to perform at Nashville's famed Bluebird Café, her parents decide she's too young to perform professionally, leaving her future hanging in the balance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Something special ; What else does she do like me? ; Footprints ; Honky tonk husband ; Wasted life (Helen Hall) -- Hello baby ; Cryin' alone ; Welcome to the club ; What about tomorrow? ; I'm having a party all by myself ; I'll introduce you to a friend (Charline Arthur) -- Bacon and eggs ; I don't want to set the world on fire (the Lovett Sisters) -- I can't help it (Abbie Neal and the Ranch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dragon Street Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY GALHinojosa, Tish.
Contents: Taos to Tennessee (2:52) -- Prairie moon (2:53) -- The highway calls (2:21) -- Crazy wind and flashing yellows (4:36) -- Always (2:49) -- Aquella noche (3:50) -- Samba San Pedro (2:58) -- Anos, meses y dias (2:55) -- Una noche mas (3:44) -- Cumbia, polka y mas (3:40) -- Manos, huesos y sangre (3:30) -- Building #9 (3:55) -- Everything you wish (2:48) -- Arbolito (English version) (4:32) -- By...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lone Star/Texas Music Group 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY HinojSummary: Filmmaker Ken Burns invited some of country music's finest artists to gather at Ryman Auditorium to celebrate the launch of his PBS series Country Music. Burns curated an evening of selected highlights from the series combined with performances of the music's iconic songs by some of country's finest artists including Dierks Bentley, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill, Kathy Mattea, Marty Stuart, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC COUNelson, Willie
Summary: For the first time ever, and to help celebrate his 90th birthday in 2023, American icon Willie Nelson provides the stories behind the lyrics of 160 of his favorite songs, along with a dynamic assortment of never-before-seen photos and ephemera. From his earliest work in the 1950s to today, Willie looks back at the songs that have defined his career, from his days of earning $50 each to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Van Zandt, Townes.
Contents: No lonesome tune -- Sad Cinderella -- German mustard -- Don't let the sunshine fool ya' -- Honky tonkin'-- Snow don't fall -- Fraulein -- Poncho & Lefty -- If I needed you -- Silver ships of Andilar -- Heavenly houseboat blues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tomato 1989
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK VANWalser, Don.
Contents: Rolling stone from Texas -- The John Deere tractor song -- Cowpoke -- Shotgun boogie -- Whispering pines -- Texas top hand -- Danny Boy -- Rose Marie (with Kronos Quartet) -- Hot rod mercury -- Please help me I'm falling -- Arkansas -- Fool such as I -- We could, you and I (with Crystal Gayle) -- Big ball's in cowtown -- Legend in my time -- I really don't want to know -- Truck drivin' man --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lone Star/Texas Music Group 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY WALSummary: Explores the history of the American South and its music through the life of country singer Charley Pride. Raised in the segregated Mississippi Delta, Pride's voice, talent, and resolve led him to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHASummary: Recorded in May 2004 in Los Angeles and hosted by James Caan. Performers include: Kid Rock, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Carole King, Merle Haggard, Toby Keith and many more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Rock Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC WILSummary: They thought it would last five weeks. Instead it went for 151 spectacular sold out shows over a triumphant year and a half across America. What made this tour extraordinary was that Glen had recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He was told to hang up his guitar and prepare for the inevitable. Instead, Glen and his wife went public with his diagnosis and announced that he and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GLESummary: Rose-Lynn Harlan is bursting with raw talent, charisma, and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mom Marion has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Watson, Doc.
Contents: Black mountain rag -- Windy & warm -- June apple -- Doc's guitar -- Stone's rag -- Victory rag -- Nashville pickin' -- Medly: fiddler's dram/whistling Rufus/Ragtime Annie (Raggedy Ann) -- Billy in the lowground -- Rainbow -- Dill pickle rag -- Salt river/Bill Cheatham -- Lonesome banjo -- Texas gales -- Tucker's barn -- Cannonball rag.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sugar Hill Records 2000