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From humble beginnings in Star, Mississippi, Faith Hill soared to the top of the country and pop charts, becoming one of the most successful female recording artists in country music history. Her albums have sold millions. Up until the end of 2000, everything she touched turned to platinum. Early in 2001 she announced that she was taking time off from her recording career to spend more time with her children and her husband, Tim McGraw. It was a fateful decision that sent her career into a decades-long tailspin. Apparently no one ever explained to her that her fans were like a river that flows to the sea. If you are a recording artist who stands on the bank as the river flows past, you cannot hope to ever regain the stardom you previously enjoyed. This biography tells the inspirational story of the Grammy-winning singer's rise to stardom, her subsequent fall from grace, and her 20-year attempt to regain her former stardom. Drawing on interviews with Faith Hill, her childhood friends and teachers, music professionals, and fans, this intimate portrait of Faith Hill examines her adventurous Huck Finn-like childhood, her first marriage and divorce, her hardscrabble years as a struggling artist in Nashville, her love affair with the man who became her husband (country superstar Tim McGraw), her thoughts on marriage and motherhood, her heartbreaking search for her birth mother (and her subsequent death), and her triumph over her husband's secret life as an alcoholic. Complete with photographs and insider information on the music industry, here at last is the whole story behind the life and music of Faith Hill-country music's most tenacious country superstar.

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After a career as a journalist for three Pulitzer Prize winning dailies, James L. Dickerson began a career as a full-time author. His book Colonel Tom Parker: The Curious Life of Elvis Presley's Eccentric Manager was purchased by Warner Bros. for its Elvis movie starring Tom Hanks as Colonel Parker. His book Mojo Triangle: Birthplace of Country, Blues, Jazz and Rock 'n' Roll earned a first place award from the Independent Publishers Association, and two music-related books, Goin' Back to Memphis (since republished as Memphis Going Down) and That's Alright, Elvis, co-written with Elvis Presley's first guitarist, Scotty Moore, were finalists for the prestigious Gleason Award (formerly presented by Rolling Stone, BMI, and New York University). The authorized biographer, Dickerson co-wrote a second book with Scotty Moore titled Scotty & Elvis. Dickerson was the editor and publisher of Nine-O-One Network, at one time the third largest circulation music magazines in the United States, behind Rolling Stone and Spin. The magazine was the first magazine published in the South to obtain newsstand distribution in all 50 states. The magazine also had distribution in most European countries.

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