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For more than a decade, Bailey White has delivered a story each Thanksgiving to National Public Radio's All Things Considered listeners. Long awaited by her many fans, Nothing with Strings is the entire collection of these Thanksgiving stories, published together for the first time.With wit and charm, White writes about an almost-gone little town where a spoon player is a guardian angel, an old woman fears that John James Audubon is living in her...
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25 bluegrass favorites to jam with on your uke, including: Blue Moon of Kentucky * Dooley * Foggy Mountain Top * Fox on the Run * High on a Mountain Top * I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow * I'll Fly Away * Keep on the Sunny Side * Kentucky Waltz * The Long Black Veil * Rocky Top * Sitting on Top of the World * Turn Your Radio On * The Wreck of the Old '97 * and more.
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The best collection ever of 70+ bluegrass standards! Includes: Alabama Jubilee * Arkansas Traveler * Bill Cheatham * Blue Moon of Kentucky * Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues) * Cripple Creek * Dark Holler * I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow * I Never Will Marry * I Saw the Light * I'll Fly Away * The Long Black Veil * Mule Skinner Blues * Orange Blossom Special * Rocky Top * Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms * Sitting on Top of the World * Wabash Cannonball...
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Over 80 of the best from the Man in Black, arranged for piano and voice with chord frames. Songs: Ballad of a Teenage Queen * A Boy Named Sue * Cry, Cry, Cry * Daddy Sang Bass * Don't Take Your Guns to Town * Folsom Prison Blues * Get Rhythm * Highway Patrolman * I Walk the Line * I've Been Everywhere * Jackson * The Long Black Veil * The Man in Black * Orange Blossom Special * (Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) * Ring of Fire * Solitary...
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The essentials of what you need to strum 58 Cash classics: just the guitar chord diagrams and lyrics. Songs include: Ballad of a Teenage Queen * A Boy Named Sue * Busted * Cry, Cry, Cry * Daddy Sang Bass * Don't Take Your Guns to Town * Folsom Prison Blues * I Still Miss Someone * I Walk the Line * Jackson * Legend of John Henry's Hammer * The Long Black Veil * The Man in Black * Orange Blossom Special * (Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)...
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Somber black crepe gowns, long black veils, a strand of Whitby jet beads or a bracelet braided from a loved one's hair, black-edged handkerchiefs--these were just some of the trappings of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century mourning. Middle- and upper-class Americans of this era were expected to follow strict etiquette guidelines in all aspects of their lives, including--perhaps especially--following a loved one's death. Sustained by advice...
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Allen takes us on a cross-country road-trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible Belt to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip: "Something gay every day." Making pit stops at drag shows, political rallies, and hubs of queer life across the heartland, she introduces us to scores of extraordinary LGBT people working for change, from the first openly transgender mayor in Texas history to the manager of the only...
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"A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central...
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"Hotbox reveals the real-life drama behind cavernous event spaces and soaring white tents, where cooking conditions have more in common with a mobile army hospital than a restaurant. Known for their modern take on Southern cooking, the Lee brothers steeped themselves in the catering business for four years, learning the culture from the inside-out. It's a realm where you find eccentric characters, working in extreme conditions, who must produce magical...
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"The years before the First World War have long been romanticized as a zenith of French culture, the "Belle Époque." The era is seen as the height of a lost way of life that remains emblematic of what it means to be French. In a vast range of texts and images, it appears as a carefree time full of joie de vivre, fanfare and frills, artistic daring, and scientific innovation. The Moulin Rouge shared the stage with the Universal Exposition, Toulouse-Lautrec...