In a tender and uproarious memoir, singer-songwriter Rodney
Crowell reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of a dirt-poor
southeast Texas boyhood.
The only child of a hard-drinking father and a holy-roller mother,
acclaimed musician Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast. But
despite a home life always threatening to burst into violence,
Rodney fiercely loved his mother and idolized his blustering
father, a frustrated musician who took him to see Hank Williams,
Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash perform. Set in
1950s Houston, a frontier-rough town with icehouses selling beer by
the gallon on payday, pest infestations right out of a horror film,
and the kind of freedom mischievous kids dream of, "Chinaberry
Sidewalks" is Rodney's tribute to his parents and his remarkable
youth. Full of the most satisfying kind of nostalgia, it is hardly
recognizable as a celebrity memoir. Rather, it's a story of
coming-of-age at a particular time, place, and station, crafted as
well as the perfect song.
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