Confessions of a Maddog: A Romp Through the High-Flying Texas Music and Literary Era of the Fifties to the Seventies Hardcover - 1998
by Jay Dunston Milner
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Once upon a time there was an innocent lad from West Texas who wrote a novel and fell in with a rabble of Texas writers as they were bridging the literary gap between J. Frank Dobie and his paisanos and the current bumper crop of Texas writers who seem to be everywhere writing about everything. This rowdy rabble of gap bridgers bonded in a sort of literary and social club they called Maddog Inc. (Motto: Doing indefinable services to mankind.) But our hero managed to live through it all anyway. This is his story.
Jay Milner was part of a generation of Texas writers whose heyday lasted from the late 1950s through the 1970s. The group comprised Billie Lee Brammer, Edwin "Bud" Shrake, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, Larry L. King, Pete Gent, and (peripherally) Larry McMurtry and Willie Morris, among others.
From the musical scene there were the "picker poets" such as Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, and Waylon Jennings.
Some of the primary works coming from this generation of writers include Brammer's The Gay Place, Shrake's Strange Peaches, Cartwright's Confessions of a Washed-up Sportswriter, King's The Whorehouse Papers and None But a Blockhead, Jan Reid's The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock, and Willie Nelson's album Phases and Stages.
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- Title Confessions of a Maddog: A Romp Through the High-Flying Texas Music and Literary Era of the Fifties to the Seventies
- Author Jay Dunston Milner
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of North Texas Press, Denton, Texas,
- Date 1998-10
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781574410501 / 1574410504
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.35 x 6.39 x 1 in (23.75 x 16.23 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Gulf Coast
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
- Library of Congress subjects Journalists - United States - Biography, Texas - Intellectual life - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-23419
- Dewey Decimal Code 976.406
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