Like Jimmie Rodgers Woody Guthrie Robert Johnson and Hank Williams Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure the troubled troubadour. A Deeper Blue traces Van Zandts background as the scion of a prominent Texas family; his troubled early years and his transformation from promising pre-law student to wandering folk singer; his life on the road and the demons that pursued and were pursued by him; the women who loved and inspired him; and the brilliance and enduring b...

Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on an essential thread in this tapestry: the Texas singer-songwriters to whom the contributors refer as “ruthlessly poetic.” All songs require good lyrics, but for these songwriters, the poetic qualit...

This unique crime and mystery collection includes the great masterpieces of the mystery every fan of the genre should experience: Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Masque of the Red Death The Fall of the House of Usher The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Purloined Letter Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Valley of Fear The Hound of the Baskervilles and other Sherlock Holmes Cases Josephine Tey: The Man in the Queue A Shilling for Candl...

E-artnow presents to you this exceptional crime and mystery collection filled with the greatest classics of the genre: Bleak House (Dickens) Great Expectations (Dickens) Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) The Double (Dostoevsky) Guy Mannering (Scott) Moll Flanders (Defoe) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) The Man in the Iron Mask (Dumas) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Hardy) The Picture of Dorian...