
- 233 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
In this collection of personal essays, women music writers pay tribute to female country artists from June Carter Cash and Dolly Parton to Taylor Swift. Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country music and the women who make it, Woman Walk the Line is an intimate collection of essays from some of America's most intriguing women writers. It celebrates how these groundbreaking musicians have provided pivot points, important truths, and doses of courage for women at every stage of their lives. It explores the many ways in which music can transform not just the person making it, but also the listener. Rosanne Cash eulogizes June Carter Cash. A seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considers the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee. The music of Patty Griffin is a balm for 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. Elsewhere in this wide-ranging anthology, acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Maybelle Carter: The Root of It All
- Lil Hardin: That’s How I Got to Memphis
- Wanda Jackson: When She Starts Eruptin’
- Hazel Dickens: The Plangent Bone
- June Carter Cash: Eulogy for a Mother
- Brenda Lee: Rare Peer
- Bobbie Gentry: Let the Mystery Be
- Loretta Lynn: The Pill
- Dolly Parton: Long Island Down Home Blues
- Emmylou Harris: Common Ground in an Uncommon Love
- Barbara Mandrell: Lubbock in the Rearview Mirror
- Tanya Tucker: Punk Country and Sex Wide Open
- Rita Coolidge: A Dark-Eyed Cherokee Country Gal
- Linda Ronstadt: Canciones de Corazón Salvaje
- Rosanne Cash: Expectations and Letting Go
- The Judds: Comfort Far from Home
- k.d. lang: Flawless, Fearless
- Lucinda Williams: Flesh & Ghosts, Dreams + Marrow
- Mary Chapin Carpenter: Every Hometown Girl
- Patty Loveless: Beyond What You Know
- Shania Twain: But the Little Girls Understand
- Alison Krauss: Draw Your Own Map
- Terri Clark: Better Things to Do
- Taylor Swift: Dancing on Her Own
- Kacey Musgraves: Follow Your Arrow
- Rhiannon Giddens: A Gift Past the Songs
- Patty Griffin: Remembering to Breathe
- Thank Yous
- Contributors