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Woman walk the line : how the women in country music changed our lives / edited by Holly Gleason.

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University of Texas Press, 2017.

781.6420922 W872

Women country musicians -- United States.

Country musicians -- United States.

Women singers -- United States.

Singers -- United States.

American music series (Austin, Tex.)

9781477313916 (hc.)

xi, 220 pages ; 23 cm.

Maybelle Carter: the root of it all / Caryn Rose -- Lil Hardin: that's how I got to Memphis / Alice Randall -- Wanda Jackson: when she starts eruptin' / Holly George-Warren -- Hazel Dickens: the plangent bone / Ronni Lundy -- June Carter Cash: eulogy for a mother / Rosanne Cash -- Brenda Lee: rare peer / Taylor Swift -- Bobbie Gentry: let the mystery be / Meredith Ochs -- Loretta Lynn: the pill / Madison Vain -- Dolly Parton: Long Island down home blues / Nancy Harrison -- Emmylou Harris: common ground in an uncommon love / Ali Berlow -- Barbara Mandrell: Lubbock in the rearview mirror / Shelby Morrison -- Tanya Tucker: punk country and sex wide open / Holly Gleason -- Rita Coolidge: a dark-eyed Cherokee country gal / Kandia Crazy Horse -- Linda Ronstadt: canciones di corazon salvage / Grace Potter -- Rosanne Cash: expectations and letting go / Deborah Sprague -- The Judds: comfort far from home / Courtney E. Smith -- k.d. lang: flawless, fearless / Kelly McCartney -- Lucinda Williams, flesh & ghosts, dreams + marrow / Lady Goodman -- Mary Chapin Carpenter: every hometown girl / Cynthia Sanz -- Patty Loveless: beyond what you know / Wendy Pearl -- Shania Twain: but the little girls understand / Emily Yahr -- Alison Krauss: draw your own map / Aubrie Sellers -- Terri Clark: better things to do / Amy Elizabeth McCarthy -- Taylor Swift: dancing on her own / Elysa Gardner -- Kacey Musgraves: follow your arrow / Dacey Orr -- Rhiannon Giddens: a gift past the songs / Caroline Randall Williams -- Patty Griffin: remembering to breathe / Kim Ruehl

"The women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift - these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it's Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it's the humanity beneath the music that resonates. Deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly's Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn's girl-power anthem "The Pill"; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt's unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on a post-9/11 survivor on the run; Emmylou Harris offers a gateway through paralyzing grief; and Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it. A celebration of country, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who make them. It speaks to the ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in various states of grace and imperfection - and ultimately how music transforms not just the person making it, but also the listener"--Provided by publisher.

Gleason, Holly.

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