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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: Sep 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts
Retail Price: $16.00
Pages: 224
Traces the life and career of the mid-twentieth-century country music star, from his sickly and fatherless childhood and musical education by an African-American street singer, to his early gigs in Depression-era rural honky-tonks and rise to Grand Ole Opry star, in an account that also discusses his struggles with alcoholism and early death. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.