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A Nashville Woman & Other Sorrows begins with a set of poems about a country musician's doomed romance and then takes the reader on a journey into the dark sequined heart of Nashville's music industry. This is poetry, but it's accessible in a way that some readers compare to '60s pop culture poet Rod McKuen's books, including McKuen's popular Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows. The subjects of the poems include romance, rejection, death, modern muses, the art and craft of songwriting, pickup trucks, heroes, Taylor Swift, aging cowboys, and those artistic souls destroyed or nearly destroyed by the harsh reality of the music business. Reviewer Lorelai Rivers gives the book a five star rating and says, These poems ring true, as though author Dan Jewell has first-hand experience of the hope and heartbreak of being a working or non-working, musician/songwriter...These snippets of life, feelings, moments, scenes, and snapshots read to me like an epic song put together with the best book openings and chapter closings from every great novel never yet written. Reviewer Jack Magnus says, Jewell's words are spare and eloquent, conveying worlds within a few well-placed words. While suffused with melancholy and loss, these poems also hint at redemption. A Nashville Woman & Other Sorrows is an award winning book in the 2015 international Readers Favorite contest.

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Award winning author and Nashville native Dan Jewell knows only three chords on his old Silvertone flattop, but he and his wife Joyce once cut demos of his songs in the famous Woodland Studio, where artists as diverse as Robert Plant and Mother Maybelle Carter recorded albums. Jewell was educated at Martin Methodist, Middle Tennessee State University, and Peabody College (now of Vanderbilt University). The author and his wife live on five wooded acres near Nashville.

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