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Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes, and the Changingby Bruce Feiler
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Book DescriptionWilliam Morrow, 1998-05-01. Hardcover. New. Book summaryAn in-depth look at the modern country music industry through the widely differing careers of three of its artists, DREAMING OUT LOUD is not so much an expose of lurid scandals as a clear-eyed look at the motivations of artists and the business people who handle them. Garth Books is glimpsed at the apex of his career, tormented by thoughts of its imminent collapse, while Wynonna and Naomi Judd, having relinquished complete control of their business affairs to their manager, find that he has made $20 million from their partnership while the duo have made only $5 million between them. Wade Hayes seems to come out best of the three, perhaps because of his relative newcomer status; though he's in debt to his record label for $350,000, he's earned $75,000, the most money he's ever made, and he's happy. A comprehensive overview of the machinations necessary to keep a country artist on the road and on the radio, seen from both sides of the music business, Bruce S. Feiler's well-researched study ably captures the complex chain of causes and effects that changed modern Nashville from country music's capital into a corporate conglomerate.Media Reviews"...What he gives us [Bruce Feiler]...are his own insightful musings about where country's been and where it's going--and on topics from race to the nature of reality, a behind-the-curtain look at how Nashville operates, and lessons in the history of country music. It's all framed by cautionary tales from these three musicians' lives." -- David Nicholson, Washington Post "'With a researcher's eye for detail and a fan's forbearance, Feiler puts human faces on Brooks' ambition and the Judd family's dysfunction. He scours the veneer off the star-making process and follows Hayes through the rigors of finding a sound, an identity and an album cover...'Dreaming Out Loud' will become a touchstone for future stories about its subjects.'" -- Publishers Weekly "Feiler pays a little too much attention to Brooks and not quite enough to Wynonna. Still, this is a charming read that will humanize Nashville and some of its most visible and influential inhabitants." -- Kirkus Publisher NotesWritten by a journalist, Dreaming Out Loud takes you to the heart of the New Nashville and into the minds of its biggest artists. Given exclusive entree to the three major talents featured in Dreaminq Out Loud, he interweaves their individual stories with the larger Nashville community and the characters who bring it to life, among them "bad boys" Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Travis Tritt, and starlets Deana Carter and LeAnn Rimes. ExcerptThe sheets of rain were falling so hard and the rush of headlights was so expectant that it was easy to miss the cloverleaf exit that banks hard to the east off Briley Parkway and deposits the driver right into the heart of what the neon hails as MUSIC VALLEY, U.S.A. Turn here for Shoney's. There for Cracker Barrel. You don't even have to turn at all to veer into the WORLD-FAMOUS NASHVILLE PALACE, which appears to be a Denny's with an overly ambitious Vegas Strip sign attached. All these establishments, with their blinkety beacons and boppity billboards promising extra-fluffy biscuits and the BEST CATFISH ANYWHERE!, are to the east off McGavock Pike, which itself is ten miles east of downtown Music City, not far from the blue-collar outposts of town, and just up the road from the real countryside. Other Recommended Books
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