Nashville chrome
Record details
- ISBN: 9780547523903 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0547523904 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (253 p.) - Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Browns (Musical group) -- Fiction Country musicians -- Fiction Country music -- Tennessee -- Nashville -- Fiction Nashville (Tenn.) -- Fiction |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
A richly imagined story of the Browns, real-life singers who were once the biggest thing on the American country music scene. A wrenching meditation on the complexities of fame and of one forgotten family who experienced them firsthand. - HoughtonA âsplendidâ novel based on the rise and fall of the Browns, Arkansas siblings who became country music legends, by an award-winning author (Dallas Morning News).
Late in 1959, the Brown siblingsâMaxine, Bonnie, and Jim Edâwere enjoying unprecedented international success, rivaled only by their longtime friend Elvis Presley. They had a bona fide mega hit on their hands, which topped both the country and pop charts and gave rise to the polished sound of the multibillion dollar country music industry we know today. Mesmerized by the Brownsâ haunting harmonies, the Beatles even tried to learn their secret. Their unique harmony, however, was only achievable through shared blood, and the trioâs perfect pitch was honed by a childhood spent listening for the elusive pulse and tone of an impeccably tempered blade at their parentâs Arkansas sawmill.
But the Brownsâ celebrity couldnât survive the world changing around them, and the bonds of family began to fray along with the fame. Heartbreakingly, the novel jumps between the Brownsâ promising past and the present, which finds Maxineâonce supremely confident and ravenous in her pursuit of applauseâailing and alone. As her world increasingly narrows, her hunger for just one more chance to secure her legacy only grows, as does her need for human connection.
Lyrical and nuanced, Nashville Chrome hits all the right grace notes with its vivid evocation of an era in American music, while at its heart it is a wrenching meditation on the complexities of fame and of one familyâforgotten yet utterly unforgettable when reclaimed by Bassâwho experienced them firsthand. - HoughtonRick Bass's third novel dramatizes three real-life 1950s era country singers from Arkansas who produced a unique and eerie tempered harmony--the Nashville Sound--that for a brief period made them the biggest thing in country music.
- Open Road MediaA âsplendidâ novel based on the rise and fall of the Browns, Arkansas siblings who became country music legends, by an award-winning author (Dallas Morning News).
Late in 1959, the Brown siblingsâMaxine, Bonnie, and Jim Edâwere enjoying unprecedented international success, rivaled only by their longtime friend Elvis Presley. They had a bona fide mega hit on their hands, which topped both the country and pop charts and gave rise to the polished sound of the multibillion dollar country music industry we know today. Mesmerized by the Brownsâ haunting harmonies, the Beatles even tried to learn their secret. Their unique harmony, however, was only achievable through shared blood, and the trioâs perfect pitch was honed by a childhood spent listening for the elusive pulse and tone of an impeccably tempered blade at their parentâs Arkansas sawmill.
But the Brownsâ celebrity couldnât survive the world changing around them, and the bonds of family began to fray along with the fame. Heartbreakingly, the novel jumps between the Brownsâ promising past and the present, which finds Maxineâonce supremely confident and ravenous in her pursuit of applauseâailing and alone. As her world increasingly narrows, her hunger for just one more chance to secure her legacy only grows, as does her need for human connection.
Lyrical and nuanced, Nashville Chrome hits all the right grace notes with its vivid evocation of an era in American music, while at its heart it is a wrenching meditation on the complexities of fame and of one familyâforgotten yet utterly unforgettable when reclaimed by Bassâwho experienced them firsthand.