Wandering Boy - Softcover

Kern, Ronni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 148402768X ISBN 13: 9781484027684

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

In 1927, 15-year old Mickey Derow leaps into an idling car to escape from the New York cops pursuing him and finds himself en route to Bristol, Tennessee. Mistaken for a “recording whiz”, he has been caught up in a hunt for singing hillbillies, though of course he knows nothing about recording or hillbillies or much of anything else. Nonetheless, in that first magic week, his life is saved by Maybelle Carter, his musical instincts are awakened by Jimmie Rodgers and his heart is stolen by 12-year old Ida Valentine whose family hopes to save their farm by recording Wandering Boy. When the Victor producers head back north, Mickey chooses to stay in the south to find more unknown singers that he can make famous... and even more urgently to find the girl who got away. As country music changes and evolves over the next eighty years, Mickey will become one of its greatest record producers; but his love for the lost Ida will haunt his wandering life.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

From Maybelle Carter to Hank Williams, from Gram Parsons to The Judds, when great country music was made, Mickey Derow was there recording it.  This is the story of the songs -- and the woman -- he loved.

About the Author:

Like both her hero and the real Mickey, the author was born in lower Manhattan but soon moved on. She worked as an operating room nurse, as the author of guidebooks to places she had never been, and as a dictaphone typist for a crooked psychiatrist before becoming an award-winning screenwriter. This is her first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 148402768X
• ISBN 13: 9781484027684
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316