Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller - Hardcover

Marshall Chapman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312315686 ISBN 13: 9780312315689

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2003

Synopsis

Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller was a 2004 SEBA Book Award finalist, and a 2004 Book Critics Circle Award finalist.

Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller is an inventive and original book from Nashville singer/songwriter Chapman, who uses twelve of her most resonant songs as entry points to many of her life's adventures. Not a memoir, but a map of the places Chapman's been and what went through her mind as she was traveling there, this book is funny and tender, warm and exuberant.

Raised a debutante in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the daughter of a mill owner and firmly part of proper society, Chapman became a rocker at a time when women weren't yet picking up electric guitars. She is "a living example," as one reviewer wrote, "of the triumph of rock and roll over good breeding."

From New Year's Eve in 1978 when Jerry Lee Lewis gave Chapman advice on how to live life ("I mean it's one thing when your mother says 'Honey don't you think you'd better slow down?' But when The Killer voices his concern....") to the time her black maid Cora Jeter took the seven-year-old to see Elvis, Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller goes to the moments when the influences on Chapman's songwriting and psyche were cemented. And it winningly reveals how the creative process comes from life: one of Chapman's favorite songs was written after waking up facedown in her underpants in her front-yard vegetable garden.

Revealing intimate rock and roll moments and memories of a South Carolina childhood, Marshall Chapman is a fresh voice firmly in the Southern tradition.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller was a 2004 SEBA Book Award finalist, and a 2004 Book Critics Circle Award finalist."

From the Inside Flap:

"Goodbye Little Rock and Roller is a great read full of honesty and emotion. Chapman’s story of her personal journey evocatively captures a time and place many of us will recognize. Her yearning to be free and yet rooted is quintessentially American and her lyrics are rock‘n roll poetry. My hope is that through this book more people will come to love her songs as much as I do."
---Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley

"It has been a real adventure knowing Marshall over the last 25+ years, Now with this wonderful book, the rest of the world will be able to become acquainted with a true American original. She talks about the South and rock & roll in a voice that is funny, poignant, and authentic..........You go girl!"
---Emmylou Harris

"Meet Marshall Chapman, a rock and roll babe, a child of the sixties like me. This is her story, and it's something to see."
---Larry Brown

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312315686
• ISBN 13: 9780312315689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 259