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A well-penned journey through the Nashville music business, told by someone who was positioned to become a keen observer of the Music Row scene 'back in the day.' --Robert K. Oermann, coauthor of Songteller (with Dolly Parton) and Little Miss Dynamite (with Brenda Lee) An inspiring, yet harrowing memoir by an outstanding singer-songwriter who made a landmark album in 1975 in the populist, folk-country tradition of Woody Guthrie and Merle Haggard, only to spend decades in the nightmarish record business in hopes of getting his music the wide audience that it deserved. Like his songs, Talley's text has a warm and resilient spirit. --Robert Hilburn, author of Johnny Cash: The Life and Paul Simon: The Life James Talley is an American artist. Putting on a Talley vinyl, I always feel as if I am getting a tour of John Steinbeck's basement and Woody Guthrie's garage and Dorothea Lange's darkroom. There are nights when my wife and I go two-stepping around the dining room to a Talley tune. Now the world has this wonderful memoir, as honest and plainspoken and direct and American in its sentence rhythms as the beautiful songs themselves. I read it in a sitting and wanted even more. --Paul Hendrickson, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and author of Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost

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James Talley is a Nashville-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Through the years, Talley's songs have been recorded by the likes of Alan Jackson, Johnny Cash, Gene Clark, Johnny Paycheck, and Moby. Peter Guralnick is an American music critic, author, and screenwriter. He specializes in the history of early rock and roll and has written on Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and Sam Cooke.

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