Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller
by Marshall Chapman
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Goodbye, Little Rock and Rollerwas a 2004 SEBA Book Award finalist, and a 2004 Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Goodbye, Little Rock and Rolleris an inventive and original book from Nashville singer/songwriter Chapman, who uses twelve of her most resonant songs as entry points to many of her life's adventures. Not a memoir, but a map of the places Chapman's been and what went through her mind as she was traveling there, this book is funny and tender, warm and exuberant. Raised a show more debutante in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the daughter of a mill owner and firmly part of proper society, Chapman became a rocker at a time when women weren't yet picking up electric guitars. She is "a living example," as one reviewer wrote, "of the triumph of rock and roll over good breeding." From New Year's Eve in 1978 when Jerry Lee Lewis gave Chapman advice on how to live life ("I mean it's one thing when your mother says 'Honey don't you think you'd better slow down?' But when The Killer voices his concern....") to the time her black maid Cora Jeter took the seven-year-old to see Elvis,Goodbye, Little Rock and Rollergoes to the moments when the influences on Chapman's songwriting and psyche were cemented. And it winningly reveals how the creative process comes from life: one of Chapman's favorite songs was written after waking up facedown in her underpants in her front-yard vegetable garden. Revealing intimate rock and roll moments and memories of a South Carolina childhood, Marshall Chapman is a fresh voice firmly in the Southern tradition. show lessTags
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Some F words about this book: Fun, Fascinating, Freeing, Flaming, Fantastic
Marshall Chapman has written an engaging memoir about her own life and filled it with news and juicy tidbits about the music world, especially during the 60's and 70's. At the risk of sounding sappy, her journey should be inspiring to many, since she seems to have come out on the other side of tough times with humor and grace.
Marshall Chapman has written an engaging memoir about her own life and filled it with news and juicy tidbits about the music world, especially during the 60's and 70's. At the risk of sounding sappy, her journey should be inspiring to many, since she seems to have come out on the other side of tough times with humor and grace.
Marshall Chapman was a member of my high school graduating class. It was a small school and a small class so I really did know her when. She went on to be a song writer/performer and I really like her music. This book is a kind of memoir of how she came to write the songs she's written. It probably won't hold much appeal if you've never heard of her or her music but if you have or are at all interesting in how songs get written, it's a really good story.
READ FOR A SIGNING AT THE BOOKSTORE, SHE WAS THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINING, A FUN GOOD READ, LIFE IS STRANGER THAN FICTION.
A Southern memoir of Marshall Chapman, a Nashville singer-songwriter -- interesting insight into her life and the world of music.
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- Original publication date
- 2003
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- Genres
- Music, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 782.42166 — Arts & recreation Music Vocal Music, Singing Secular forms of vocal music Songs General principles and musical forms Traditions of secular songs {genres} Rock songs
- LCC
- ML420 .C4536 .A3 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Biography
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- Languages
- English
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