Bobby Braddock is a songwriter and producer who has worked for five decades with singers and musicians in Nashville. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2011, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1981, and the national Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015. He is author of Down in Orburndale: A Songwriter's Youth in Old Florida.
"Bobby is a songwriter's songwriter who has a great gift for
portraying what is real and genuine--a true poet. I've always loved
him, and I get a kick out of his take on things. I am sure you will
feel the same reading about his life on Music Row. Enjoy!"
--Dolly Parton, legendary singer, songwriter, and entertainer
"Bobby Braddock is the greatest of all the country music
songwriters, and he's written a rip-roaring history of Nashville
and the characters who have made it what it is. He spins the
stories of the greats and not-so-greats, the dreamers and the
schemers, the bit players and the stars. I laughed out loud and
maybe shed a tear or two. It's a great read for both country fans
and those who wouldn't know country from Cole Porter. I loved
it."
--Bob Schieffer, CBS News
"No one I've ever met has made such an impact on my life as Bobby
Braddock. . . . I've always wished that everyone could hear these
stories. How could so much be packed into one person's life? Think
it's not possible? Spend a day with Bobby."
--Blake Shelton, star of country music and NBC's The Voice
"The best book ever written about writing songs on Music Row. Bobby
Braddock is arguably the greatest country songwriter of all time.
This [book] should be his biggest hit yet."
--Alice Randall, author of New York Times best seller The Wind Done
Gone
"The Country Music Hall of Fame songwriter's remarkably direct,
engaging, outrageously funny, and insightful memoir of his long
career on the main stage of Nashville's storied music business. A
gifted songwriter's intensely personal inside story on the fast
track in Nashville, where almost a century of music has generated a
wealth of legends, myths, and heartbreakingly true stories. Bobby
Braddock has been there for fully half of it--making him its most
articulate and unabashed eyewitness to date."
--John Egerton, award-winning Southern author
"This memoir combines penetrating self-revelation and very readable
storytelling from an almost painfully smart, always generous writer
who's able to look back at the charms and foibles of his younger,
rougher self with perspective and endearing humor. There's only one
Bobby Braddock, and he's in these pages."
--Barry Mazor, author of Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots
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