Description:
Nashville City Blues offers hard-won wisdom for any aspiring artist motivated to work hard and handle whatever setbacks might follow. Readers will also gain valuable understanding about the country music industry and the inescapable links between commerce and artistry.
Brief description: James Talley is a Nashville-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Through the years, Talley's songs have been recorded by the likes of Alan Jackson, Johnny Cash, Gene Clark, Johnny Paycheck, and Moby.
Review Quotes: "James Talley's Nashville City Blues: My Journey as an American Songwriter is too evenhanded to be a cautionary tale about the dark corners of the big-city music business, but this is a songwriter's memoir with a moral in tow. Talley delves into the machinations of a dirty business, but Nashville City Blues is a story about the idealism that comes only through work. As Talley writes, "Songwriters, regardless of how they are abused and underpaid, still rule the world artistically."--Nashville Scene