From 1948 to the late 1950s, Horace "Hoss" Logan produced the Louisiana Hayride, a weekly country music show broadcast on CBS Radio. The Hayride was known as the "Cradle of the Stars" for building many country music careers, and for introducing the young Elvis Presley to a national audience. Horace Logan's memoir "brings the old show back to life," as Hank Williams Jr. says--from Johnny Cash and Presley to George Jones, Johnny Horton, Faron Young, Jim Reeves, Willie Nelson, and many more. As producer, emcee, and friend to the Hayride performers, Logan gives us a personal look into musical history in the making. Complete with sixteen pages of rare onstage and behind-the-scenes photographs, Louisiana Hayride Years brings to life the early days of modern country music and the people who gave the Hayride a permanent place in popular musical culture.
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"The book that every country music lover in America will want to read." --Willie Nelson
"If you weren't fortunate enough to be at the Hayride in person, this book is the next best thing." --Johnny Cash
"Horace's book is long overdue, and it brings the old show back to life." --Hank Williams, Jr.
"From Hank Williams to Slim Whitman to Johnny Cash to the one and only Elvis, this recollection of country music greats is a real foot-stompin' treat." --Kirkus Reviews
"Country music fans will love this chatty, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of country's most popular postwar radio programs....Reads like the best country music songs, filled with just the right combination of sorrow and swing." --Publishers Weekly
"Great inside stuff on giants like Presley and Williams makes this book a rare treat indeed...Valuable pop music history." --Booklist
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