This week’s giveaway is all about music! A Few Honest Words: The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music by Jason Howard is the giveaway title. Sign up by Friday, March 8 at 1 pm for your chance to win!
In industry circles, musicians from Kentucky are known to possess an enviable pedigree—a lineage as prized as the bloodline of any bluegrass-raised Thoroughbred. With native sons and daughters like Naomi and Wynonna Judd, Loretta Lynn, the Everly Brothers, Joan Osborne, and Merle Travis, it’s no wonder that the state is most often associated with folk, country, and bluegrass music.
But Kentucky’s contribution to American music is much broader: It’s the rich and resonant cello of Ben Sollee, the velvet crooning of jazz great Helen Humes, and the famed vibraphone of Lionel Hampton. It’s exemplified by hip-hop artists like Nappy Roots and indie folk rockers like the Watson Twins. It goes beyond the hallowed mandolin of Bill Monroe and banjo of the Osborne Brothers to encompass the genres of blues, jazz, rock, gospel, and hip-hop.
“Jason Howard has gathered up all those sweet Kentucky sounds and brought them home to a reunion. His Few Honest Words is like a country-folk music festival in prose.”–Michael Streissguth, author of Johnny Cash: The Biography
Check out the book trailer below and don’t forget to sign up by Friday, March 8 for your chance to win!
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Looking foward to seeing my past in words!
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This is a terrific book!
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