By Jeffrey Buckner Ford River of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman He Loved is the story of a husband and wife who loved each other deeply, whose alcohol addictions swept them helplessly down a river, and whose emotional instabilities made it a river of no return. The cover photo beautifully illustrates this […]
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While home in South Dakota a few weeks ago, I attended the Sherwin Linton show at the county fair in Montevideo, Minnesota. I’d seen him and the Cotton Kings several times years ago, when I was an unknown in the audience. Now Faron’s biography has made me important enough to be introduced! Sherwin’s wife, Pam, […]
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This is a periodic newsletter on Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story, published last year by the University of Illinois Press, as well as progress on writing Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins. INTERVIEWS Thanks to Jody Nix for putting me in touch with Johnny Bush and to Tom Lipscombe for […]
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Marty Robbins didn’t like being called “Mr. Teardrop.” He told an interviewer in 1982, “It always embarrassed me when somebody’d say Mr. Teardrop. Ah, shoo, man, I wanted to fall down and cry, y’know. Because I didn’t like it. Because it embarrassed me. . . . I never had a name for my band. They […]
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Here’s a quote from a European interview Marty Robbins did in October 1982, shortly after his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame: “I don’t believe that I deserve it yet, because there’s three other people I think who deserve it before I get it. One is Little Jimmy Dickens. The other is Webb […]
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Author: Kingsley Browne “Much of men’s motivation to fight comes from their appreciation of the link between warfare and masculinity,” Kingsley Browne states in Co-Ed Combat, “and disruption of that link is likely to diminish their motivation.” Allowing women to be combat soldiers would decouple being a soldier from being a man, and failure in […]
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This is a periodic newsletter about “Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story,” published last year by the University of Illinois Press, as well as progress on writing “Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins.” Here’s the link to my online interview with Norm Goldman, publisher and editor of Bookpleasures.com: http://tinyurl.com/3zteyj JODY NIX […]
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Here’s my periodic newsletter about “Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story,” published last year by the University of Illinois Press, as well as progress on writing “Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins.” GRAND OLE OPRY AND MIDNITE JAMBOREE While in Nashville I attended the Saturday night Opry. (Thanks to Opry museum […]
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The 25th annual International Country Music Conference at Belmont University in Nashville provided an enjoyable three days of information and socializing. I learned how Irene Williams spent her whole live preserving the name of her brother, Hank, and then suffered the shame of getting herself busted for running drugs. And the history of Crowley, Louisiana, […]
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This is my periodic newsletter about “Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story,” published last year by the University of Illinois Press, as well as progress on “Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins.” I’ve written four chapters and will continue after research trips to Nashville and Phoenix. INTERNATIONAL COUNTRY MUSIC CONFERENCE I’m […]
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River Of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and The Woman He Loved
By Jeffrey Buckner Ford River of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman He Loved is the story of a husband and wife who loved each other deeply, whose alcohol addictions swept them helplessly down a river, and whose emotional instabilities made it a river of no return. The cover photo beautifully illustrates this […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 27 August 2008
While home in South Dakota a few weeks ago, I attended the Sherwin Linton show at the county fair in Montevideo, Minnesota. I’d seen him and the Cotton Kings several times years ago, when I was an unknown in the audience. Now Faron’s biography has made me important enough to be introduced! Sherwin’s wife, Pam, […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 23 July 2008
This is a periodic newsletter on Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story, published last year by the University of Illinois Press, as well as progress on writing Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins. INTERVIEWS Thanks to Jody Nix for putting me in touch with Johnny Bush and to Tom Lipscombe for […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 9 July 2008
Marty Robbins didn’t like being called “Mr. Teardrop.” He told an interviewer in 1982, “It always embarrassed me when somebody’d say Mr. Teardrop. Ah, shoo, man, I wanted to fall down and cry, y’know. Because I didn’t like it. Because it embarrassed me. . . . I never had a name for my band. They […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 2 July 2008
Here’s a quote from a European interview Marty Robbins did in October 1982, shortly after his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame: “I don’t believe that I deserve it yet, because there’s three other people I think who deserve it before I get it. One is Little Jimmy Dickens. The other is Webb […]
CO-ED COMBAT: The New Evidence That Women Shouldn’t Fight the Nation’s Wars
Author: Kingsley Browne “Much of men’s motivation to fight comes from their appreciation of the link between warfare and masculinity,” Kingsley Browne states in Co-Ed Combat, “and disruption of that link is likely to diminish their motivation.” Allowing women to be combat soldiers would decouple being a soldier from being a man, and failure in […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 18 June 2008
This is a periodic newsletter about “Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story,” published last year by the University of Illinois Press, as well as progress on writing “Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins.” Here’s the link to my online interview with Norm Goldman, publisher and editor of Bookpleasures.com: http://tinyurl.com/3zteyj JODY NIX […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 4 June 2008
Here’s my periodic newsletter about “Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story,” published last year by the University of Illinois Press, as well as progress on writing “Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins.” GRAND OLE OPRY AND MIDNITE JAMBOREE While in Nashville I attended the Saturday night Opry. (Thanks to Opry museum […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 28 May 2008
The 25th annual International Country Music Conference at Belmont University in Nashville provided an enjoyable three days of information and socializing. I learned how Irene Williams spent her whole live preserving the name of her brother, Hank, and then suffered the shame of getting herself busted for running drugs. And the history of Crowley, Louisiana, […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 14 May 2008
This is my periodic newsletter about “Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story,” published last year by the University of Illinois Press, as well as progress on “Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins.” I’ve written four chapters and will continue after research trips to Nashville and Phoenix. INTERNATIONAL COUNTRY MUSIC CONFERENCE I’m […]