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At The Corner Of Music Row And Memory Lane
At The Corner Of Music Row And Memory Lane Author:Stan Hitchcock This book is a real life adventure, written by Stan Hitchcock, with no ghostwriter, no co-writer just life of an entertainer as he lived it. Stan is known as a recording artist, songwriter, a television personality and Network TV founder and has traveled with the greats of country music performing worldwide and come out with great stories of the... more » glory years from 1959 to 2009. Find out what life on the road is really like and get to know the heroes of country music as you've never known it before. In this journey you will hear the stories of Mel Tillis, Tammy Wynette, Red Foley, Roy Acuff, Little Jimmy Dickens and other legends as they forged a business out of their music. You'll travel the back roads to gigs in the early years with Loretta Lynn, Ernest Tubb, Stringbean, Lefty Frizzell, Bobby Bare and more. The stories will make you laugh out loud and then cry just as easily. You will have an insight into the bare beginnings of country music...and travel to the height of it on a crooked road that has never been documented with such insight and delightful description. Stan was there when it happened! There are few people in the country music industry who have the perspective of being actively involved in it's history from 1959 through 2009. For 50 years Stan Hitchcock has been the young kid with the greats, a buddy of the superstars and the media mogul shaping the careers of the up and coming kids who needed to be presented to the video generation. His personal talent includes a list of chart records from 1964 to 1982, then his entry into television with The Stan Hitchcock Show series from 1966 to 1972. Afterwards the start-up of CMT, Americana Television Network (ATN) and BlueHighways TV all through the 80's, 90's and to the present day round out most of a lifetime spent in the pursuit of adventures in music. This book is a personal backstage pass into that adventure. You're invited to pick up your guitar and play along.« less