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Dreaming Out Loud
Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes, and the Changing Face of Nashville
by Bruce S. Feiler
ISBN: 0380975785
ISBN-13: 9780380975785
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
An 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.
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"...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
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 1998
Size: 6.5 x 10 inches
Weight: 1.55 pounds
Pages: 406
Publisher's Notes
Written 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.
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Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes, and the Changing Face of Nashville
Bruce Feiler
William Morrow, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket has very slight shelfwear. Cover has very slight shelfwear; small amount of sticker residue on top of spine. Pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Binding is tight. Not price-clipped. Not ex-library. Not remainder. Beautiful condition. ISBN: 0380975785. ( more information)
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Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes, and the Changing Face of Nashville
Feiler, Bruce
William Morrow. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0380975785 . Light wear to dust jacket. Light softening to spine ends, otherwise book is in pristine condition. Pasadena's premier independent new and used bookstore. Music. ; 1.3 x 9.2 x 6.3 Inches; 406 pages; Hours before his first show in years, Garth Brooks, the best-selling recording artist in American history, stands atop his giant stage and describes his paralyzing inner fears. Minutes after receiving an award, Wynonna Judd, the feisty performer with the fragile soul, retreats to the back of her mother's restaurant and collapses in tearful frustration. The night his new album is released, Wade Hayes, the handsome young star with the haunted past, returns to his hometown for a bittersweet reunion. Over the last several years, country music has undergone a sweeping revolution-and one writer was granted unprecedented access to witness private moments of that revolution and to chronicle the genre's biggest stars as they changed the face of American music and the town that country calls home. . ( more information)
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1ST HARDBACK EDITION 1998 DUST JACKETVERY GOOD BOOK FINE ISBN: 0380975785. ( more information)
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Avon Books, (1998). 1st Ediiton. ISBN 0-380-97578-5.. Slight "lift" along panel edges. Very Good+ in Fine DJ.. ( more information)
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1ST HARDBACK EDITION 1998 DUST JACKETVERY GOOD BOOK FINE ISBN: 0380975785. ( more information)
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New York: William Morrow. New; May have light shelf wear and ink mark (remainder mark) on outer edge. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! 1998. Hardcover. 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches; 406 pages; 1 . ( more information)
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DREAMING OUT LOUD : GARTH BROOKS, WYNONNA JUDD, WADE HAYES AND THE CHANGING FACE OF NASHVIL
FEILER, BRUCE
New York:: Avon Books,, 1998. Hard Cover. Fine in Fine dj. Taking you into the heart of the New Nashville and into the minds of its biggest artists. Feiler was granted unprecedented access to witness the private moments of Nashvilles brightest stars that pivoted the music of Nashville center stage, and changed the face of American music and the town that country calls home. Interweaving their individual stories with the larger Nashville community and the characters who bring to life, among them "bad boys" Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Travis Tritt. starlets Deana Carter and LeAnn Rimes. Unread. DJ not price clipped, Guitar illustation to front. Photo illustrations throughout. First Edition. Clean, tight. sm 4 to, 406 pages ( more information)
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Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes, and the Changing Face of Nashville (SIGNED)
Feiler, Bruce S
Near York:: Avon Books,, 1998.. First edition. Hard Back. Fine in Fine dj. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the HALF TITLE PAGE. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. The book and dust jacket are in FINE condition. 406 pages with index and photo credits. NOT price-clipped. Black & white illustated. Comes with BRODART jacket cover. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. Dust jacket notes read: "Hours before his first show in years, Garth Brooks, the best-selling recording artist in American history, stands atop his giant stage and describes his Paralyzing inner fears. Minutes after receiving an award Wynonna Judd, the feisty performer with the fragile soul, retreats to the back of her mother's restaurant and collapses in tearful frustration. The night his new album is released, Wade Hayes, the handsome young star with the haunted past, returns to his hometown for a bittersweet reunion. Over the last several years, country music has undergone a sweeping revolution-and one writer was granted unprecedented access to witness private moments of that revolution and to chronicle the genre's biggest stars as they changed the face of American music the town that country calls home. Country music was once the voice of a distinct minority: working-class Southerners. During the past decade, though, country has exploded across the U.S. and emerged as the voice of the new American majority. Buyers of country records and listeners to country radio are at all-time highs, while back at home a new generation of musicians and executives has flocked to middle Tennessee, transforming the once ridiculed world of Nashville into an unlikely focal point of American pop culture, a new patron city for the American dream. Written by a journalist who has become part of that world, Dreaming Out Loud takes you to the heart of the New Nashville and into the minds of its biggest artists. For three years, noted author Bruce Feiler has been a fixture on Music Row and has reported on country music in groundbreaking pieces for The New York Times, The Republic and National Public Radio. Given exclusive an unparalleled entree to the three major talents featured in Dreaming Out Loud, he brilliantly 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. From the historic stage of the Grand Ole Opry to the dim light of a recording studio, from the manic crush backstage at the CMA Awards to the quiet intimacy of a photo shoot, here is a ruggedly authentic behind-the-scenes tour that takes you places outsiders have never before been allowed to go. Part social history, part backstage pass, this penetrating and graceful book presents the most comprehensive portraits yet painted of Garth Brooks and Wynonna Judd, two of the most celebrated artists of our time-as well as a moving picture of Wade Hayes, a young man who hopes to follow them to the exalted heights of one of America's richest traditions: the world of country music and the town it has remade. ( more information)
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