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Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives (American Music Series) Hardcover – September 20, 2017

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Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift―these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it’s Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it’s the humanity beneath the music that resonates.

Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the 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. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on 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.

Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who make them, Woman Walk the Line is a very personal collection of essays from some of America’s most intriguing women writers. It speaks to the ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in various states of grace and imperfection―and ultimately how music transforms not just the person making it, but also the listener.

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"Woman Walk the Line radiates heartfelt sincerity, revealing how women in country music—world-famous and little-known, black and white, vintage and contemporary—helped shape the lives of many different kinds of women. It’s concrete evidence that country should and does belong just as much to women as to men." (Ann Powers, author of Good Booty)

"Woman Walk the Line is tender, tough, raw, informative, and emotionally intelligent, carefully framing twenty-seven of country music’s most evocative and enduring artists. It delivers truth and beauty on every page. I bow in earnest." (Rodney Crowell, author of Chinaberry Sidewalks)

"I absolutely loved this book. Whether we are country girls or city girls, we can all be inspired by its pure generous emotion, transforming pain into empowerment. But it’s not just for girls. This book is for everyone." (Exene Cervenka)

"These personal stories—from women, about women and the way music impacts lives—are entertaining, thought-provoking, and, most of all, memorable." (Reba McEntire)

"Woman Walk the Line is a deeply moving and profound look at the power of music and women. This book captures some of the best music writing you'll ever encounter, but it does much more than that. This is a book for this moment in America, a time when we all need to be reminded of the remarkable impact of women on all facets of our lives. Here we witness their joys, their sorrows, their determination and grit and defiance. More than anything, though, we witness their strength and brilliance." (Silas House, author of Clay’s Quilt and The Coal Tattoo)

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Holly Gleason is a music critic, academic, and artist development consultant. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, HITS, Musician, CREEM, the Oxford American, No Depression, and Paste.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Texas Press (September 20, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 236 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1477313915
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1477313916
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.06 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
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Author, journalist and marketing consultant Holly Gleason’s work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times, Musician, Variety, Oxford American, Playboy, Interview, SPIN, NPR Music and Miami Herald. In 2023, she was named LA Press Club’s Entertainment Journalist of the Year. A former Rock & Roll Hall of Fame/Case Western Reserve Fellow, she’s the creator of and contributor to the 2018 Belmont Book Award-winning Woman Walk The Line: How The Women of Country Music Changed Our Life. She recently co-authored Miranda Lambert’s New York Times best-seller Y’All Eat Yet: Welcome to the Pretty B*tchin Kitchen, and edited Prine on Prine: Interviews & Encounters.

An in-demand speaker and interviewer, she's appeared at the Country Music Hall of Fame, Southern Festival of Books, Miami Book Fair, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and various talk shows. She's received the NSAI I Wish I Wrote That Song Award for "Better As A Memory" and taught Music Criticism at Middle Tennessee State University for over a decade.

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Charlie Wiener
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a beautifully written, loving edited
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2017
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This is a beautifully written, loving edited, by Holly gleason, book about the women of country music, their contributions to country music by women who were inspired by these women. And that sentence is what is wrong with this book; or, at least, how it will be perceived. As it is so much more than that and I fear people will shy away from this must read because of that misconception. Yes, what I said is true but it really is a compilation of human stories about strong, creative, brilliant writers, singers and musicians who contributed not just to country music but to all music and, more importantly, to the lives of those who knew them, listened to them and became who they are because of them. These are insightful and historical vignettes about how music influences and shapes our lives. How those who would not be denied taught us how to stand on our own while leaning against their accomplishments for strength and assurance. These are stories that inspire not just women but all of us. And they are stories that instill knowledge to our love of those who are, or should be, the soundtrack of our lives. Don't buy this book because you love country music, don't buy this book because you are a woman, buy this book because it is wonderfully and lovingly written about real people, real struggle, real accomplishment. Buy this book for yourself because you deserve it. The only other shortcoming of this work is it is only one book. It should be encyclopaedic. Highly, highly recommend.
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S. Stem
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Read - Insightful and Entertaining
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2018
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Finished reading Book #1 of 2018 last night: WOMAN WALK THE LINE edited by Holly Gleason and written by a wide array of great female writers. Truly an awesome read. It lives up to all the great reviews it's received. I learned so much about each the artists (and I thought I knew several of their histories very well before reading) as well as the writers themselves. Highly recommended. Alice Randall's story on Lil Hardin lept off the page, giving me a great synopsis of an artist I knew very little about and now want to hear everything she did., Wendy Pearl's story on Patty Loveless and how her music ultimately led Wendy to a complete career change was mind-blowing. Holly George-Warren's story on Wanda Jackson brought the legendary singer to life. Nancy Harrison's conversation with Dolly Parton about Nancy's mother made me want to cry. Ronni Lundy's story on Hazel Dickens gave me all types of insight into this artist. Holly Gleason's story on Tanya Tucker brought back my own teenage memories of the singer. Cynthia Sanz's story on Mary Chapin Carpenter illustrated all the reasons why I love MCC and miss her being on today's country radio. Rosanne Cash's eulogy for June Carter Cash, Madison Vain's coming of age with the female empowerment songs of Loretta Lynn, & more. Get it now!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Breakthrough Moments Set To A Country Soundtrack
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2018
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Art originates in a very personal place. Grief, loneliness, happiness and ecstasy are all channeled through a brush or clay or a guitar pick out into the world. It is the universality of the human experience that attracts us at different times in our life to a particular painting, or sculpture -- or a song on the radio.

Country music is a genre that is already noted for its deeply personal story telling. Holly Gleason has assembled a selection of writers willing to lay bare a piece of their soul and share exactly how a particular artist resonated with them -- either at a particular juncture in their life -- or over the duration.

This is a book for anyone who has had an aha moment triggered by a song, or a particular musical artist. A book for anyone who has ever nursed their broken heart through a tough breakup with a favorite song on repeat. A book for anyone who has seen their own situation clearer through the lyrics of a song.

Anyone who has ever said, "She absolutely gets it! This song is for my situation!" Will relish each page turn of this book. There is something for everyone here -- man and woman alike.

In a time where the dialogue between men and women is heightened and there is a lot of yelling in general in the world, it is a refreshing break to just listen -- listen to these women as they share a bit of their soul and experience with you -- and listen to the female artists they write about. YouTube will become your companion as you DJ a soundtrack to accompany each chapter.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Revelatory
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2017
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Acutely revelatory to me. The writers are women who articulate a personal epiphany reached through the portal/experience of a song sung by a woman. It pulls the curtain back twice. First, when the writer tells of her "place" when she heard the song (young, identity crisis, love tumble ...), and, second, how the song showed the writer the path to gaining possession of some centrally important component of her life. The writers are articulate thinkers. The artist/singer subjects are gifts to humankind: Maybelle Carter, Wanda Jackson, Patsy Cline, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Bobbie Gentry, Alison Krauss, Hazel Dickens, Rhiannon Giddens, Rita Coolidge, Roseanne Cash, Patty Loveless, Tanya Tucker, Shania Twain, Taylor Swift .... These are intensely personal essays that reveal the singers/artists in new light and, in doing so, revealed the writers' individual soul. Perhaps the smartest non-fiction book of the year.
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5.0 out of 5 stars If you read Prine on Prine... you will love this book!
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2023
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This book was an eye opener to women in Country Music.... perspective..... highly recommended!
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JANICE A. BROWN
5.0 out of 5 stars wOMAN WALK THE LINE...A MUST READ FOR ANYONE !!!
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2018
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One of the best books I have read ! I read it, passed it on to my sister and she loved it , then even my 90 year old Mom loved it. Three women in one family and we all give it 5 stars. Went full circle in our family ! Once I got it back I read it again and found that I could read it 5 more times. Always a great remind and would highly recommend you put it in your list of things to buy. You will not be dissapointed.
woman walk the line is like no other book you have read about woman in music and their stories. A MUST READ FOR ALL !!!
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Lark Watts
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book--highly recommended.
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2023
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The writer's story herself was probably my favorite. Just a great read if you are a country music fan. Hoping for another book from this author.
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1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2017
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BigE
4.0 out of 5 stars A series of Articles on Significant Women worth listening too.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2020
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Some good content - with articles that were easy and quick to read that will certainly help you explore the subject matter and even show you a few albums to consider worth listening too.
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