Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives

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Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with each and every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at each and every stage of their lives. Whether it is Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift bearing in mind the golden glimmer of some other precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it is the humanity beneath the music that resonates.

Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly‘s Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn’s girl-power anthem “The Pill”; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt’s unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on a post-9/11 survivor on the run; Emmylou Harris offers a gateway through paralyzing grief; and Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it.

Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who lead them to, Woman Walk the Line is a very personal selection of essays from some of The usa’s most intriguing women writers. It speaks to the ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in quite a lot of states of grace and imperfection—and in the long run how music transforms not just the person making it, but also the listener.

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