Rodney Crowell
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
Recounts the author's experiences growing up in Houston in the 1950s as the only child of an alcoholic father and epileptic mother, describing a coming-of-age marked by barroom brawls, apocalyptic hurricanes, and wild improvisations in the face of unpaid bills.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A collection of previously unrecorded Hank Williams lyrics newly set to music and performed as completed songs by a roster of artists with a musical and spiritual kinship to the archetypal American country music singer-songwriter. From heartbreak to honky-tonking, from Jesus to gin mills, Hank Williams wrote about life's deepest truths and sang with an ethereal authority on such unforgettable songs as 'Your Cheatin' Heart', 'I Saw the Light', 'Cold,...