The Storyteller's Nashville: A Gritty & Glorious Life in Country Music (Hall Tom T.)(Paperback)

The Nashville we know today is a glitzy big business characterized by entertainment lawyers, social media strategies, and buff, shiny entertainers writing about pick-up trucks, tractors, and dirt roads in air-conditioned, corporate offices. But, back before the coats of glamour and media spotlights, Nashville was a very different place. "The Storyteller's Nashville" is about a fabled town that once was, but no longer exists. The Nashville that Tom T. Hall wrote about -- the "hairy-legged town" where hungry, broke musicians searched for their next meal, pill-popping pickers scammed their next hit, and writers found art in moments of quiet, solitary desperation - is the true foundation upon which today's modern Music City rests. "The Storyteller's Nashville" is also about a man whose songs irrevocably altered the history of that same town as well as the music for which it remains best
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