Woman walk the line : how the women in country music changed our lives /

Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift--these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it...

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Other Authors: Gleason, Holly (Editor)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2017]
Series:American music series (Austin, Tex.)
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Maybelle Carter: the root of it all / Caryn Rose
  • Hardin: that's how I got to Memphis
  • Alice Randall
  • Wanda Jackson: when she starts eruptin' / Holly George-Warren
  • Hazel Dickens: the plangent bone / Ronni Lundy
  • June Carter Cash: eulogy for a mother / Rosanne Cash
  • Brenda Lee: rare peer / Taylor Swift
  • Bobbie Gentry: let the mystery be / Meredith Ochs
  • Loretta Lynn: the pill / Madison Vain
  • Dolly Parton: Long Island down home blues / Nancy Harrison
  • Emmylou Harris: common ground in an uncommon love / Ali Berlow
  • Barbara Mandrell: Lubbock in the rearview mirror / Shelby Morrison
  • Tanya Tucker: punk country and sex wide open / Holly Gleason
  • Rita Coolidge: a dark-eyed Cherokee country gal / Kandia Crazy Horse
  • Linda Ronstadt: canciones di corazon salvage / Grace Potter
  • Rosanne Cash: expectations and letting go / Deborah Sprague
  • The Judds: comfort far from home / Courtney E. Smith
  • k.d. lang: flawless, fearless / Kelly McCartney
  • Lucinda Williams, flesh & ghosts, dreams + marrow / Lady Goodman
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter: every hometown girl / Cynthia Sanz
  • Patty Loveless: beyond what you know / Wendy Pearl
  • Shania Twain: but the little girls understand / Emily Yahr
  • Alison Krauss: draw your own map / Aubrie Sellers
  • Terri Clark: better things to do / Amy Elizabeth McCarthy
  • Taylor Swift: through the eyes of a critic, of a mom / Elysa Gardner
  • Kacey Musgraves: follow your arrow / Dacey Orr
  • Rhiannon Giddens: a gift past the songs / Caroline Randall Williams
  • Patty Griffin: remembering to breathe / Kim Ruehl.