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Louisiana Hayride Years: Making Musical History in Country's Golden Age
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by Horace Logan, Bill Sloan, Hank Williams, and Johnny Cash
Sales Rank: 1756842
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$10.25
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on 6-19-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 288 pages
Published by: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition September 4, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0312206615
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0312206611
Book Dimensions:
8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 12.2 ounces
Book Description
From 1948 to the late 1950s, Horace "Hoss" Logan produced the Louisiana Hayride, a weekly country music show broadcast on CBS Radio. The Hayride was known as the "Cradle of the Stars" for building many country music careers, and for introducing the young Elvis Presley to a national audience. Horace Logan's memoir "brings the old show back to life," as Hank Williams Jr. says--from Johnny Cash and Presley to George Jones, Johnny Horton, Faron Young, Jim Reeves, Willie Nelson, and many more. As producer, emcee, and friend to the Hayride performers, Logan gives us a personal look into musical history in the making. Complete with sixteen pages of rare onstage and behind-the-scenes photographs, Louisiana Hayride Years brings to life the early days of modern country music and the people who gave the Hayride a permanent place in popular musical culture.
Publisher Description
"The book that every country music lover in America will want to read." --Willie Nelson
"If you weren't fortunate enough to be at the Hayride in person, this book is the next best thing." --Johnny Cash
"Horace's book is long overdue, and it brings the old show back to life." --Hank Williams, Jr.
"From Hank Williams to Slim Whitman to Johnny Cash to the one and only Elvis, this recollection of country music greats is a real foot-stompin' treat." --Kirkus Reviews
"Country music fans will love this chatty, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of country's most popular postwar radio programs.Reads like the best country music songs, filled with just the right combination of sorrow and swing." --Publishers Weekly
"Great inside stuff on giants like Presley and Williams makes this book a rare treat indeedValuable pop music history." --Booklist
Reader Reviews
This volume was originally published under the title, "Elvis, Hank, and Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride," and it's a tremendously more accurate title than the abbreviated "Louisiana Hayride Years." Although Logan was the guiding light of the show, serving as its creator and producer during its first ten years, his book focuses more on Elvis and Hank, than on the Hayride itself. His insights into these two megastars, each at the very beginning of their climb to fame, are interesting, to be sure, but there was so much more to be covered. In addition to the two icons, numerous other country acts began or expanded their stardom on the Hayride, and though Logan provides some interesting anecdotes about Johnny and Jack, Kitty Wells, Faron Young, Slim Whitman, Webb Pierce, Johnny Horton, Johnny Cash and George Jones, he never really delves into the Hayride itself. His dishing on the Grand Ole Opry, while probably close to the bone, is a poor substitute for a deeper discussion of how the Hayride itself worked. There's some interesting analysis of why the Hayride kept giving up its stars to Nashville, but having been written so long after-the-fact, the of-the-moment accounts focus more on the stars than the show. One never really gets a feel for the Hayride's own arc of fame, nor the nuts-and-bolts of how the show (both stage and radio) operated. That said, and even with the factual errors noted elsewhere, this is a worthwhile first-hand account of a seminal program that fostered one of the great transitional periods in country music's history.
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