Fall and Redemption: The Essence of Country Music

ISBN-13: 9783639136722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 64 str.

Ba Patrick Campbell

Opis

Submitted as a graduate students Master Degree thesis, Fall and Redemption is the story of a mans journey of recovery from drug use, and how playing country music helped him through it. The student/addict moved to his home town to come clean. His solaces were 12 step meetings, solitude, and his fathers first electric guitar, an old 1956 Silvertone Honky Tonk player that his father used to play in a Honky Tonk band in the 1950s. The graduate students discovery of the music, combined with familial and historical research of the music led to a personal discovery of the strength of country music and its generational purpose of expressing through song the human condition. The music became a mode of expression, and a deliverence from the demons he faced in looking at the emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical damage caused by his habitual drug use. As a reader, you will be taken through this mans journey as he discovers the naked truth of the bridges burned from the ravages of drug use (the Fall), his facing his demons through taking responsibility for his life (the Redemption), and how the music helped him through it.

O autorze

The author continues to play the music of his
heritage:classic country,in a band of 5 players having a
combined time of 200 years playing and performing selections
that date back to the 1930's.
The author hopes that Fall and Redemption conveys a message
of hope for those who suffer from addiction.