{"product_id":"the-glory-road-a-gospel-gypsy-life-9780817320911","title":"The Glory Road A Gospel Gypsy Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this touching memoir, Anita Faye Garner re-creates her remarkable upbringing. The Glory Road carries readers back to the 1950s South and the intersections of faith and family at the very roots of American popular music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a story so central to the origins of country music: the marriage of Saturday night and Sunday morning, and the literal marriage of two musicians, sometimes at odds with each other creatively and personally. The song written by Fern Jones 'I Was There When It Happened' was performed around the world by my dad and the Tennessee Three, became the title of the memoir of Marshall Grant (the bass player in the Tennessee Three), and was revived yet again when I performed it every night on a recent tour I did with Ry Cooder. Anita Garner was 'there when it happened,' and her book tells us what we ought to know.\" - Rosanne Cash\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Glory Road\u003c\/i\u003e takes us to an important cultural crossroad of America - where gospel met rockabilly, and Saturday night collided with Sunday morning in the late 1950s in the Deep South. It's also a very personal family story of a deeply religious preacher, Raymond Jones, whose wife, Fern, had a big voice and even bigger musical ambitions. Anita Garner's recounting of her parents' lives-their tensions and travails on the 'gypsy road' of tent revivals and recording studios-echoes one of her mother's most famous songs: 'I Was There When It Happened.'\" - Dayton Duncan, writer\/producer of Ken Burns' \u003ci\u003eCountry Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Glory Road\u003c\/i\u003e touches several bases: southern culture, family life, the evangelical ethos, commercial music, migration, and spousal relations. It will appeal to both a general and specialized audience.\" - Michael T. Bertrand, author of \u003ci\u003eRace, Rock, and Elvis \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I'll admit I didn't know the music of Sister Fern and The Joneses until now. So, \u003ci\u003eThe Glory Road\u003c\/i\u003e has introduced me to some exciting and important music. But, even more than that, the story itself will stick with me. I don't expect to forget these characters.\" - Burgin Mathews, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eDoc: The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor's Note\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Route 66\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. California\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGospel Gypsies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. All-Day Singing with Dinner on the Grounds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. The Joneses Sing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Afterglow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Little Sinners\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. Queen of the Southern Transplants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Truths and Dubious Wisdom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. Our House\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10. Sister Fern Won't Go to Town\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11. We Got Us a Baby\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12. Daddy and the Doctor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13. The Other Babies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14. Raymond's Doll Baby\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15. In the Garden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 16. Hey Good Lookin'\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 17. I Was There When It Happened\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 18. Musical Pie Lady\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 19. His Eye Is on the Sparrow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 20. Goodbye Again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 21. Harmony in the Car\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 22. Tents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 23. Revivals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 24. Down on the Bayou\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 25. Junior and Them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 26. Brother Daly's Gold-Plated Hallelujah\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMusical Houses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 27. Age of Reckoning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 28. The Pink House\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 29. Prodigal Son\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 30. Johnny Cash Will Make All the Difference\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 31. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 32. Down by the Riverside\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 33. Leaving Louisiana\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 34. California Kids\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 35. Nashville Nights\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 36. Fifties Farewell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 37. Love Me Tender\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 38. Palm Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 39. This World Is Not My Home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGospel Gypsies Know\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCredits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038571462999,"sku":"9780817320911","price":23.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780817320911.jpg?v=1750940721","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-glory-road-a-gospel-gypsy-life-9780817320911","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}