50 Years Down a Country Road

by Ralph Emery and Patsi Bale Cox

Book Overview

Based on Ralph Emery's numerous radio interviews, this colorful and entertaining history of Nashville explores how the musical climate and culture changed over five decades, and why the music's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688177581
• ISBN13: 9780688177584
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Ralph Emery is a great storyteller!

This book had some great stories that you don't get to hear on CMT or in Country Weekly. I thought this was a well-written account of the history of country music by someone who has been an institution in the industry for over 50 years. Very good book!

50 Years Down a Country Road

Ralph Emery is a country music radio/TV personality who knows his stuff. When Ralph puts together material for a book, the reader knows they are going to get authentic data. Ralph's contact with and dealings with the people he wrote about in this book are real. I know the music well and I applaude his analysis of who had the hit songs of the year he was focusing on. Once I started the book, I couldn't put it down. Please let Ralph know, it was thoroughly enjoyed by me. I have been a country music fan since the early 40s when I was about 6 years old and able to turn on the battery operated radio and listen in wonderment at the music I heard. It fascinated me then, and the traditional music still fascinates me today. I am having a very difficult time being as broadminded as Ralph is about the sound of today. I rarely listen to the radio today. I buy albums by Dolly, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Asleep at the Wheel. Need I tell you more. When I am driving, my discs are playing the music I love. I'm not listening to the so-called " country music" station which only play sing-alikes with a sound that doesn't touch my soul. Thank you Ralph, for your many years of touching the souls of your listeners. Tho I never listened to you on WSM (hard to get in S Dak. and Calif is too far away), I loved your TNN Nashville Now program. You were my must see program each day. I surely miss the authentic country shows on TNN. I rarely tune in, except for the Grand Ole Opry these days. Thanks for the book, Ralph. Keep up the good work. Hope to see you soon on TV.