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"Taylor Swift always knew she wanted to be a country music artist, so at age thirteen, she convinced her parents to move their family out of Pennsylvania to Nashville. As a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Taylor wrote songs about teenage heartbreak and fitting in with her peers, and she performed these and other tunes at open mic nights and karaoke events. Breaking into the music industry took longer than she expected because record executives...
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"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 journey of one of the most revered entertainers of our time"--...
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Harper Celebrate
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English
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"The best things in life are really not that fancy. This photo-driven book featuring all-things-Reba invites you to get back to the basics of life: fun, food, friends, and family. In her first book in over two decades, actress and country music legend Reba McEntire takes you behind the scenes and shares the stories, recipes, and Oklahoma-style truths that guide her life."--
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2015.
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This is the unvarnished, complete story of Willie Nelson's life, told in his distinct voice and leaving no moment or experience unturned, from Texas and Nashville to Hawaii and his legendary bus. Having recently turned 80, Nelson is ready to shine on a light on all aspects of his life, including his drive to write music, the women in his life, his collaborations, and his biggest lows and highs-from his bankruptcy to the founding of Farm Aid. An American...
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After he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams? A frail, flawed man who had become country music's first real star? Instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr. Having hit the heights with simple songs of despair, depression, and tainted love, he would, with that outlaw swagger, become in death a template for the rock generation to follow. Six decades later, Mark Ribowsky now weaves together the first fully...
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Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience. In the ensuing years, never staying anywhere for long, father and daughter move from one dusty town to the next, her passion for music growing every time she takes the mike in another roadhouse. But it is not an easy life for...
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"Jimmy Webb's words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer, and Linda Ronstadt. He's the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestrations, and his chart-topping career has, so far, lasted fifty years, most recently including a Kanye West rap hit and a new classical nocturne. Now, in his first memoir, Webb delivers a snapshot...
11) Nashville chrome
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In 1959, Maxine, Bonnie and Jim Ed Brown were enjoying enormous show business success, rivaled only by their longtime friend Elvis Presley. But the Browns' celebrity couldn't survive a changing world, and the bonds of family began to fray along with their fame.
13) A winter wedding
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Whiskey Creek novels volume 9
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English
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Kyle Houseman believes that he'll never find anyone he could love as much as Olivia Arnold, who's now married to his stepbrother. Not only did he lose her, he's been through one divorce and has no desire to go through another. He's determined to be extra careful about the next woman he gets involved with, which is why he fights his attraction to the beautiful stranger who rents his farmhouse for the Christmas holiday. Lourdes Bennett is a country...
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Time-Life
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[2015]
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English
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It's Buck, Roy, Junior, Grandpa and the whole Hee Haw gang, all pickin' and grinnin,' singin' and spinnin' tall tales with the citizens of Kornfield Kounty! Includes bonus interviews with Roy Clark and many other cast members. Features performances by Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Jr., Tammy Wynette, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Donna Fargo, Charlie Rich, Dottie West, and Tennessee Ernie Ford.
16) Small town girl
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When a music superstar returns to her hometown, can she learn how to help those who need her the most?
Tess " Mac" McPhail is one of country music' s brightest lights, a millionaire many times over, accustomed to public adoration and a life lived on her own terms. Now, eighteen years after she left her hometown, Mac' s sisters insist she return to help care for their widowed mother. There Mac faces...
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BMG
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[2022]
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English
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"Sixteen Tons is the story of Country Music Hall of Fame member Merle Travis, a brilliant, multi-talented, and deeply troubled artist who is widely considered to be a musical genius. A world-class guitarist who dazzled audiences with his Kentucky thumb-picking style, Merle was also a pioneering country songwriter who wrote such classics as "Dark as a dungeon" and "Sixteen tons." In the 1940s, he was responsible for several early electric guitar innovations,...
18) Everything I need to know I learned from Dolly Parton: country wisdom for life's little challenges
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Topix Media Lab
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©2020
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English
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"In Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Dolly Parton, Dolly's personal code of conduct is transformed into practical guidance for readers who want to know how she would handle many of the real-life challenges they themselves are facing. Calling upon Dolly's personal examples, quotes, song titles and lyrics, famous films scenes, as well as personal anecdotes provided by her co-stars, friends, family members and peers, Everything I Need to Know...
19) Taylor Swift
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Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
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[2023]
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English
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"Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about Taylor Swift, the Grammy Award-winning and multiplatinum artist. Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for preschoolers!"--
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Hal Leonard Publishing Corp
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[1998]
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English
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The inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame include the major pioneers and personalities in country music's rich history. This five-volume songbook series includes photos and biographies, and a special selection of songs (arranged for piano, voice and guitar) associated with each inductee. It's an essential compilation of songs and stories for the true country music fan. Features Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, Jimmie Davis, 'Little' Jimmie Dickens,...
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