Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller (Signed Copy)

Chapman, Marshall; Marshall Chapman

ISBN 10: 0984809007 / ISBN 13: 9780984809004

Published by Tall Girl, Nashville, 2012

About this Item

Softcover with an "opened-a-few-times" look & feel. Signed with absolutely no further inscription, by the author. A clean and unmarked copy. Photos. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999. 259-stated pages.

Seller Inventory # 22019514

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller (Signed Copy)
• Publisher: Tall Girl, Nashville
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984809007
• ISBN 13: 9780984809004
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Memoir
  • Music

About this title

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.

From the Back Cover

• I try to make my words as passionate as her music.
  -Pat Conroy
• "Goodbye LIttle Rock and Roller" is compulsively readable not because it includes tales of sex and drugs, but almost in spite of it.
  -The Atlanta Journal and Constitution