Chinaberry Sidewalks: A Memoir

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Description

In a tender and uproarious memoir, singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of a dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.
 
The only child of a hard-drinking father and a holy-roller mother, acclaimed musician Rodney Crowell used to be no stranger to bombast. But regardless of a home life at all times threatening to burst into violence, Rodney fiercely loved his mother and idolized his blustering father, a frustrated musician who took him to see Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash perform. Set in 1950s Houston, a frontier-rough town with icehouses selling beer by the gallon on payday, pest infestations right out of a horror film, and the type of freedom mischievous kids dream of, Chinaberry Sidewalks is Rodney’s tribute to his parents and his remarkable youth.  Full of the most satisfying roughly nostalgia, it’s hardly recognizable as a celebrity memoir.  Somewhat, it is a story of coming-of-age at a particular time, place, and station, crafted in addition to the easiest song.


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