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Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music
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Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music Hardcover - 2008

by Dana Jennings


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The years from about 1950 to 1970 were the golden age of twang. Country music's giants all strode the earth in those years: Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, George Jones and Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. And many of the standards that still define country were recorded then: "Folsom Prison Blues," "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Mama Tried," "Stand by Your Man," and "Coal Miner's Daughter."

In "Sing Me Back Home," Dana Jennings pushes past the iconic voices and images to get at what classic country music truly means to us today. Yes, country tells the story of rural America in the twentieth century--but the obsessions of classic country were obsessions of America as a whole: drinking and cheating, class and the yearning for home, God and death.

Jennings, who grew up in a town that had more cows than people when he was born, knows all of this firsthand. His people lived their lives by country music. His grandmothers were honky-tonk angels, his uncles men of constant sorrow, and his father a romping, stomping hell-raiser who lived for the music of Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the other rockabilly hellions.

"Sing Me Back Home "is about a vanished world in which the Depression never ended and the sixties never arrived. Jennings uses classic country songs to explain the lives of his people, and shows us how their lives are also ours--only twangier.

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  • Title Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music
  • Author Dana Jennings
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 257
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Faber & Faber, New York
  • Date 2008-05
  • ISBN 9780865479609 / 0865479607
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.58 x 5.88 x 0.93 in (21.79 x 14.94 x 2.36 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Country music - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007047955
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.642

About the author

Dana Jennings, a native of New Hampshire, is an editor with "The New York Times." He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.
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