By Robert K. Oermann

On Sale: Oct 8, 2008
Page Count: 416 pages
Publisher: Center Street
ISBN-13: 9781599951843

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The Grand Ole Opry has been home to the greatest legends of country music for over eighty years, and in that time it has seen some of conutry music’s most dramatic stories unfold.
We’ll hear of the great love stories ranging from Johnny Cash and June Carter in the 1960s to Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, who married in 2005. We’ll get the truth of the tragedies that led to the loss of three stars all in the same month, starting the rumor of the “Opry Curse.” We’ll learn how after being stabbed, shot, and maimed, Trace Adkins calls his early honky-tonk years “combat country,” and we’ll find inspiration from DeFord Bailey, an African American harmonica player in 1927 crippled by childhood polio who rose to fame as one of the first Opry stars. Our hearts will break for Willie Nelson, who lost his only son on Christmas Day, and soar for Amy Grant and Vince Gill, who found true love.
Based on over 150 firsthand interviews with the stars of The Grand Ole Opry, these are stories that tell the heart of country–the lives that are lived and inspire the songs we love.

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Grand Ole Opry

About the Author

Dubbed “the dean of Nashville’s entertainment journalists,” Robert K. Oermann writes two weekly columns for Music Row magazine and has been published in more than 100 other national periodicals. His seven books to date include the award-winning Finding Her Voice and A Century of Country. He has penned liner notes for more than 100 albums and boxed-set productions, and has scripted and/or directed television specials and documentaries for CMT, CBS, PBS, the BBC, TBS, TNN and others. He is the chairman of the country committee for the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles and serves on the Hall of Fame and awards committees for the Country Music Association (CMA).

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