Quilt, The
And the Poetry of Alabama Music
Published on 20. February 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-1-60306-390-6 (ISBN)
Description
With a combination of song lyrics and reflective essays, Alabama author Frye Gaillard and recording artist Kathryn Scheldt pay tribute to the literary legacy of Alabama songwriters. Included here are reflections on the works of Hank Williams, Emmylou Harris, and W. C. Handy, among many others. Scheldt and Gaillard share Emmylou's view that the Americana music coming out of Alabama has been "the literature of the people." In addition to writing about this tradition, these two authors are part of it. In these pages and on an accompanying CD are songs co-written by Scheldt and Gaillard.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Athens
United States
Publishing group
University of Georgia Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60306-390-6 (9781603063906)
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Persons
Frye Gaillard (Author)
FRYE GAILLARD is a former writer-in-residence in the English and history departments at the University of South Alabama. He is the author of thirty books, including With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and Their Passions; Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award; The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, winner of the Gustavus Myers Award; and A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s (Georgia), an NPR best book of 2018. He lives in Mobile, Alabama.
Kathryn Scheldt (Author)
KATHRYN SCHELDT, author, singer, and award-winning songwriter, is a resident of Fairhope and author of two guitar songbooks for Mel Bay Publications. Kathryn has played listening rooms all over the South, and has released eight solo CDs. Her single, "Almost Cheatin'," from her One Good Reason CD reached number eight on the country chart, and her recording of "The Last Shrimp Boat" anchored the soundtrack for the Emmy-winning documentary, In the Path of the Storms.
FRYE GAILLARD is a former writer-in-residence in the English and history departments at the University of South Alabama. He is the author of thirty books, including With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and Their Passions; Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award; The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, winner of the Gustavus Myers Award; and A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s (Georgia), an NPR best book of 2018. He lives in Mobile, Alabama.
Kathryn Scheldt (Author)
KATHRYN SCHELDT, author, singer, and award-winning songwriter, is a resident of Fairhope and author of two guitar songbooks for Mel Bay Publications. Kathryn has played listening rooms all over the South, and has released eight solo CDs. Her single, "Almost Cheatin'," from her One Good Reason CD reached number eight on the country chart, and her recording of "The Last Shrimp Boat" anchored the soundtrack for the Emmy-winning documentary, In the Path of the Storms.