Nickel Dreams: My Life by Tanya Tucker  (7)
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Country star Tucker gathers the tried-and-true techniques for beating passing fits of depression from a passel of her friends, peers and family. Each comes in at a few paragraphs measuring a page or two, and all have a comradely sense of having been down and lived to tell about it. Garth Brooks talks of dialing down his career in order to lift himself up; Brenda Lee finds that "offering a helping hand to another will lift you up faster than anything"; Nashville bootmaker Rodney Ammons notes, "[I]t's against the law for the blues to follow you up on your mother's front porch!" Plenty of other celebs--from Loretta Lynn and Kris Kristofferson to former president George H.W. Bush and wife Barbara--check in, but what they say is less important than the sense of a burden shared and repeatedly overcome. As Kristofferson says, "I don't beat the blues; the blues beats me./ Daily./ Like a drum." Despite a great deal of self-help lite, the cumulative effect is substantive. (Mar. 15)
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Country star Tucker gathers the tried-and-true techniques for beating passing fits of depression from a passel of her friends, peers and family. Each comes in at a few paragraphs measuring a page or two, and all have a comradely sense of having been down and lived to tell about it. Garth Brooks talks of dialing down his career in order to lift himself up; Brenda Lee finds that "offering a helping hand to another will lift you up faster than anything"; Nashville bootmaker Rodney Ammons notes, "[I]t's against the law for the blues to follow you up on your mother's front porch!" Plenty of other celebs--from Loretta Lynn and Kris Kristofferson to former president George H.W. Bush and wife Barbara--check in, but what they say is less important than the sense of a burden shared and repeatedly overcome. As Kristofferson says, "I don't beat the blues; the blues beats me./ Daily./ Like a drum." Despite a great deal of self-help lite, the cumulative effect is substantive. (Mar. 15)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Any entertainer will tell you that when you get on that tour bus, you sometimes feel you are leaving the problems of the real world behind. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Jimmy Scott, Los Angeles, Quinnie Blue, South Carolina, Beverly Hills, Country Music Hall of Fame, Geoffrey Sullivan, Star Wars, Stopped Loving Her Today, Ava Gardner, Darth Vader, George Jones, Hank Williams, Kinky Friedman, Marlon Brando New!
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Any entertainer will tell you that when you get on that tour bus, you sometimes feel you are leaving the problems of the real world behind. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Jimmy Scott, Los Angeles, Quinnie Blue, South Carolina, Beverly Hills, Country Music Hall of Fame, Geoffrey Sullivan, Star Wars, Stopped Loving Her Today, Ava Gardner, Darth Vader, George Jones, Hank Williams, Kinky Friedman, Marlon Brando New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Surprise Me!
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