Nashville Steeler: My Life in Country Music

by Don Davis

Overview

This true account of the rise of country music is told by a 1940s' band musician, Don Davis, who became a music business executive and worked with all the Grand Ole Opry stars. Johnny Cash, the Carter family, Waylon Jennings, Minnie Pearl, Roy Acuff, and many others were his friends and appear throughout the book. They played from Mobile to Nashville and back again to his beloved Alabama. This masterful storyteller recalls colorful songwriters, record personalities, and fans with real incidents over his sixty-year career, that will move readers from laughter to tears. View 100 photographs showing real people, places, and instruments that have become country music legends. The stories will inform the fans and inspire current musicians to keep to their roots and enjoy the music.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780764342790
Publisher:	Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date:	12/13/2012
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Ruth B. White is a fifty-year veteran of the music business and has worked in all phases of Nashville's music industry. In 2010, she was the recipient of the Source Award in Nashville.

Table of Contents

Dedication 4

Foreword Harold Bradley 5

Preface 6

Acknowledgements 8

Part 1 Life in Mobile

1 Just a Fightin' Alabama Boy 11

2 Ship Building and Country Music 16

3 Pay Dirt 18

Part 2 Life in Nashville

4 I Make the Big Time 21

5 A Grand Ole Lady 38

6 West Coast Interlude 43

7 The Boys Who Made the Noise that Started It All 48

8 On the Road with Morgan 56

9 Lucky 13 66

10 The Wild Child 70

11 Anita and the Kids 82

12 "Pop" Carter as I Knew Him 89

13 Harlan 94

14 Johnny Cash 104

15 The Tree Years 111

16 Waylon 117

17 Carnival Days 126

Part 3 From Nashville to Mobile Bay

18 Peace by the Bay 131

Afterglow 139

Recording Sessions Remembered 140

Index 143