Around the Opry Table

Around the Opry Table
Author: Kay West
Publisher: Center Street
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2009-05-30
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1599952777

Country music and country cooking fans everywhere will savor this new official cookbook of the Grand Ole Opry and its members, featuring favorite recipes of country music legends past and present and the stories behind them.

Saturday Nights with Daddy at the Opry

Saturday Nights with Daddy at the Opry
Author: Libby Leverett-Crew
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2003-11-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1418530808

The daughter of the Grand Ole Opry’s official photographer reminisces about witnessing country music history alongside her father in this memoir. Like many little girls, Libby Leverett-Crew’s father, Les Leverett, often had to work nights and weekends. But unlike many girls, Libby’s father took her along to his job—where he was the official photographer for the Grand Ole Opry for more than thirty years. First at the historic Ryman Auditorium, and later at the Grand Ole Opry House, Libby Leverett-Crew was a witness to country music history. And now some forty years later, she pays tribute to the wonderful people who touched the lives of her entire family while at the same time hearing witness to the powerful impact a loving father can have on his child’s life. In Saturday Nights with Daddy at the Opry, Libby Leverett-Crew shares not only her remarkable memories of those Saturday nights with Dolly Parton, Minnie Pearl, Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe, and countless others, including assorted Muppets, astronauts, ballet dancers, actors, Andy Warhol, and k.d. lang, but also a beautiful father-daughter relationship. The book also includes more than 100 photographs from her father. Praise for Saturday Nights with Daddy at the Opry “Les Leverett has added so much class and talent to our world; I’m not surprised that his daughter, Libby, has done this book. Yeah, Libby good for you. I’m proud to have baby-sat you from time to time backstage. You were always a joy.” —Dolly Parton “There’s an old song, “I Was There When It Happened So I Guess I Oughta Know.” That’s [Libby’s] story inside the world of country music. I knew her first as Les Leverett’s kid. It must be in the water at their house because she’s come into her own as a masterful photographer. She also wields a pen that has a detailed memory for great storytelling.” —Marty Stuart

Lockeland Table Community Kitchen and Bar

Lockeland Table Community Kitchen and Bar
Author: Hal Holden-Bache
Publisher:
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2015-12-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780996850704

The book truly reads as Hal and Cara talk. It captures not only their personalities, but their, and LT's essence.Dining at Lockeland Table in East Nashville is nothing short of a warm and lovely culinary experience. Co-owned by Greenbrier Hotel and Resort trained Chef Hal Holden-Bache and Cara Graham, Lockeland Table has managed to not only capture the imagina- tion of the community they reside in, but thehearts of those who dine there as well. Committed to sourcing locally, investing in their own neighbor- hood and always supportive of Nashville events, Lockeland has become a must-eat-at location.Walk through each section of the restaurant in this beautifully crafted book, that shares heart-warming stories, tips, and more. Stunning images abound provided by none other than award-winning photographer Ron Manville. The recipes are waiting for you to try, and the stories will bring a tear or two to your eye. We promise!

Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain

Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain
Author: Grand Ole Opry
Publisher: Center Street
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2008-10-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1599951843

The Grand Ole Opry has been home to the greatest legends of country music for over eighty years, and in that time it has seen some of conutry music's most dramatic stories unfold. We'll hear of the great love stories ranging from Johnny Cash and June Carter in the 1960s to Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, who married in 2005. We'll get the truth of the tragedies that led to the loss of three stars all in the same month, starting the rumor of the "Opry Curse." We'll learn how after being stabbed, shot, and maimed, Trace Adkins calls his early honky-tonk years "combat country," and we'll find inspiration from DeFord Bailey, an African American harmonica player in 1927 crippled by childhood polio who rose to fame as one of the first Opry stars. Our hearts will break for Willie Nelson, who lost his only son on Christmas Day, and soar for Amy Grant and Vince Gill, who found true love. Based on over 150 firsthand interviews with the stars of The Grand Ole Opry, these are stories that tell the heart of country--the lives that are lived and inspire the songs we love.

The Grand Ole Opry

The Grand Ole Opry
Author: Colin Escott
Publisher: Center Street
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2009-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1599952483

This official guide chronicles the story of the birthplace of country music as told by the people who were there. Escott presents the official inside history of the home of country music, offering fans an exclusive look into the heart and soul of country music. Full color, and packed with photos from the Opry Archives covering 80 years of history.

Hot, Hot Chicken

Hot, Hot Chicken
Author: Rachel Louise Martin
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2021-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 082650177X

These days, hot chicken is a “must-try” Southern food. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken “Nashville-style.” Thousands of people attend the Music City Hot Chicken Festival each year. The James Beard Foundation has given Prince’s Chicken Shack an American Classic Award for inventing the dish. But for almost seventy years, hot chicken was made and sold primarily in Nashville’s Black neighborhoods—and the story of hot chicken says something powerful about race relations in Nashville, especially as the city tries to figure out what it will be in the future. Hot, Hot Chicken recounts the history of Nashville’s Black communities through the story of its hot chicken scene from the Civil War, when Nashville became a segregated city, through the tornado that ripped through North Nashville in March 2020.

Nashville's Grand OLE Opry

Nashville's Grand OLE Opry
Author: Jack Hurst
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1989-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9785551029144

Country music is America's music, and the Grand Ole Opry is country music's home. Here is the story of the first fifty years, from Minnie Pearl to Uncle Dave Macon. Nearly 500 photos, including 265 in color, capture the excitement and nostalgia of this saga of down-home entertainment.

The New Southern Style

The New Southern Style
Author: Alyssa Rosenheck
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1647001757

A vibrantly illustrated exploration of the creative, inclusive, and inspiring movement happening in today’s Southern interior design The American South is a place steeped in history and tradition. We think of sweet tea, thick drawls, and even thicker summer air. It is also a place with a fraught history, complicated social norms, and dated perspectives. Yet among the makers and artists of the South, there is a powerful movement afoot. Alyssa Rosenheck shines a much-needed spotlight on a burgeoning community of people who are taking what’s beloved, inherent, and honored in the South and making it their own. The New Southern Style tours more than 30 homes and includes interviews with the designers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs who are reinventing Southern design and culture. This beautifully illustrated book is sure to inspire the home and soul.

They Came to Nashville

They Came to Nashville
Author: Marshall Chapman
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0826517358

Marshall Chapman knows Nashville. A musician, songwriter, and author with nearly a dozen albums and a bestselling memoir under her belt, Chapman has lived and breathed Music City for over forty years. Her friendships with those who helped make Nashville one of the major forces in American music culture is unsurpassed. And in her new book, They Came to Nashville, the reader is invited to see Marshall Chapman as never before--as music journalist extraordinaire. In They Came to Nashville, Chapman records the personal stories of musicians shaping the modern history of music in Nashville, from the mouths of the musicians themselves. The trials, tribulations, and evolution of Music City are on display, as she sits down with influential figures like Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, and Miranda Lambert, and a dozen other top names, to record what brought each of them to Nashville and what inspired them to persevere. The book culminates in a hilarious and heroic attempt to find enough free time with Willie Nelson to get a proper interview. Instead, she's brought along on his raucous 2008 tour and winds up onstage in Beaumont, Texas singing "Good-Hearted Woman" with Willie. They Came to Nashville reveals the daily struggle facing newcomers to the music business, and the promise awaiting those willing to fight for the dream. Co-published with the Country Music Foundation Press

The Grand Ole Opry History of Country Music

The Grand Ole Opry History of Country Music
Author: Paul Kingsbury
Publisher:
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1995
Genre: Country music
ISBN:

The best and most luxurious history of country music ever published, this 70th-anniversary tribute to the Grand Ole Opry has been selected by this beloved institution as its chief souvenir. The complete history of the Opry is given, from the early days of Roy Acuff and the Carter Family through Dolly Parton and Minnie Pearl to Garth Brooks and Reba McIntire--all illustrated with more than 225 photos, many in full color.