Chicken Soup for the Soul: Country Music: The Inspirational Stories behind 101 of Your Favorite Country Songs - Softcover

Canfield, Jack; Hansen, Mark Victor; Rudder, Randy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935096672 ISBN 13: 9781935096672

Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul, 2011

Synopsis

Readers will get an inside look at the personal stories behind their favorite country songs as songwriters get up close and personal with exclusive stories about how and why they wrote them.

Songs tell a story, and now many of country music’s most famous singers and songwriters are sharing more of the story! These artists reveal the inspiration, influence, and background, and when and why they wrote their most famous songs, in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Country Music. The book also includes great photos of the songwriters and all of the lyrics. A great gift for anyone who loves country music!

About this title

From the Author

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen are co-founders of Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Randy Rudder is a country music journalist.

About the Author

Jack Canfield is co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers, and coauthor of The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. He is a leader in the field of personal transformation and peak performance and is currently CEO of the Canfield Training Group and Founder and Chairman of the Board of The Foundation for Self-Esteem. An internationally renowned corporate trainer and keynote speaker, he lives in Santa Barbara, California.

 Mark Victor Hansen is a co-founder of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Randy Rudder is an author, speaker, and documentary producer. He has an MFA in creative writing and an MA in literature. 

For nearly 20 years he worked an an arts and entertainment writer while teaching at Tennessee State University, Nashville State Community College and Aquinas College. During that time, he wrote for The Nashville Business Journal, Bluegrass Unlimited, American Profile, The Washington Post, Script Magazine and many others. He later became a writer/producer for the Christian Broadcasting Network and recently produced the documentary 40 Years on The Farm, a historical retrospective of The Farm cooperative community in Summertown, Tennessee. 
 
He is also the author of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Country Music edition, published in May and distributed by Simon and Schuster. The book contains interviews with the songwriters of 101 classic country songs. He is currently writing a screenplay and finishing a collection of essays. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1935096672
• ISBN 13: 9781935096672
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 416