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“Definitive . . . reads as her life was lived, like the melodramatic but hopelessly 'true' lyrics of a Nashville ballad.” —Los Angeles Times
“Essential reading for anyone seriously involved in a romance with country music.” —LA Weekly
"The Life and Times of Patsy Cline is not only the story of a remarkable woman and her triumphs and tragedies, but is also a history of country music as an art form and as an industry. Compelling, candid, and ultimately readable, it is a fascinating portrait of this beloved vocalist. . . . It will certainly stand as the definitive biography." --Brooklyn After Dark
"[Patsy’s] story is told candidly but lovingly in Margaret Jones’ exhaustively researched biography. . . . Although Jones is skilled at conjuring up the hard-living lot of country musicians on the road in the ‘50s and ‘60s (don’t miss the hilarious story of how Patsy accidentally turned sweet June Carter on to amphetamines), the single most compelling tale in the book is of the torturous 1961 session that produced her signature tune, Willie Nelson’s ‘Crazy.’ Recovering from a near-fatal car accident, embroiled in a hopeless marriage, afraid her career might be over, Cline returned again and again to this most despairing of American standards. ‘It may have been the most dangerous moment of her recording career, and, from an emotional standpoint, her life,’ writes Jones." --Baltimore City Paper
"Cline’s career as a star was very short—six years by generous count—but she was a professional singer for nearly half of her 30-year-life. And though her songs were written by others, they often reflected the drama that enveloped her. That drama is the substance of The Life and Times of Patsy Cline, a thoughtful biography written by Margaret Jones. . . . Jones constructs her picture of the singer from hundreds of interviews, as well as from other books and memoirs. It’s a painstaking job, made more difficult by the several faces Cline presented to her contemporaries—and by the different spirits she carried inside herself. . . . Nor does Jones sensationalize her material. The facts, right up to the tragic plane crash that killed her, are quite dramatic enough, and Cline, clearly a person who required a certain level of angst in her life, could generate her own emotional steam bath when necessary. . . . The Life and Times of Patsy Cline, for all its tragic ending, is in many ways an inspiring book, the honestly told story of a supremely talented woman who subordinated almost everything to her art." --Santa Barbara News Press
"Patsy Cline, who died in 1963 in an airplane crash at age 30, is still—and increasingly, it seems—the most respected female country singer dead or alive. She had the voice, of course, big and pure, but more than that she was everything we now think the ideal woman should be: determined, independent, hard-driving, straight-talking and tough. As it happened, she was also everything we regret: a sucker for bounders, a boozer, a pill popper and crash diet veteran with, as it might be put, low self-esteem. The story of her life as told here details these contradictions and provides an illuminating look at the music business in its crucial years, the late ‘50s and early ‘60s.… Patsy did just fine spitting out what bugged her in concrete matters, complaining, for instance, that the standard ‘girl singer’ ruffled attire of the mid ‘50s made her look like a ‘damn butterfly.’ But when it came to larger things, though she was as tormented as the next person, she hadn’t the wherewithal to put it into words. In the end, her biography convinces one of her essential ordinariness, an ordinariness offset only somewhat by gargantuan will and generosity." --Boston Globe
"Cline comes strutting out of the pages of Jones’ book, slaps the reader on the back with a ‘Hey, Hoss’ and a smile. Her salty language was as much a part of her as was her music. . . . If you close your eyes in between chapters, you can almost hear the music." --Nashville Banner
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Reviews:
So good I bought another copy to give as a gift
Well-researched, well-written, and explains what the “Nashville sound” was and how Patsy embodied it.
Awesome Book on Patsy Cline!
Great book on my favorite singer Patsy Cline!
Riveting & Excellent
A humorous, close the bone, human, stellar account of research with fitting milieu of the South & the time. Heartwarming & heartbreaking~~~~
Fantastic book
Great book about Patsy Cline
Kind of Indifferent to Patsy
I've read only the first few chapters, up until she's 16 and after having her Opry "audition", but I must say the author gives a far clearer picture of the people around Patsy Cline, than she does of Patsy herself. She also does what she says she didn't do, and that is engage in amateur psychology in the first few chapters, concerning the effects on Patsy of her relationship with her Father. I really resent that kind of speculation and she goes on and on about it.You wouldn't know she was a great singer in the early pages, the reactions of the various people who auditioned her are muted. One said her voice wasn't that good at that point, and when someone else thinks her voice is great the author quickly passes over it. I'd like to know more about what music professionals thought about the qualities of her voice, perhaps it's impossible to report on that, and it was never written down in detail, but still, she could have said that.And furthermore, so far I have a much clearer picture of her Mother and even her Father, who left home when she was around 16, than of her. The author reports of her school attendance at so many different schools, and her grades one year, but has nothing much to say about her personality except for the more outspoken or outrageous aspects of it. It's annoying. You would never know she was a great singer either, she comes across as just one of many trying out. Her voice should be the central theme but it isn't, the music industry is. The author provides a lot of detail about that, and seems to really compliment a number of people that Patsy met and worked with, but never compliments Patsy! Or writes a short sentence about her voice being notable and moves on. Wouldn't her voice and her discovery and people's reaction to it in her early years be worthy of a few paragraphs?I'll continue reading this to the end and gave it three stars because I haven't read that many chapters and the author does give impressive detail about the music industry, but my first impressions aren't entirely good. I'm also concurrently reading the Honky Tonk Angel bio and am further along with that. It too seems to be about the music industry that Patsy encountered and also says little about her voice. Maybe it's impossible to reconstruct her early years, and breaking through, but at least these authors could defer more to their subject. Both biographies seem confused or not entirely sure of who she was. Again, other people in her life are better sketched.I believe she was driven by her own genius, she had her look as well as her sound, the complete package, and was ready from an early age to become a singer, why not say more about that? Instead of implying it was her personality alone that drove her? She was good, and she knew it and that's what drove her, in my opinion. She also must have learned a lot of technique in the nine years she spent playing clubs and bars and trying to get on the Opry, before appearing on the Arthur Godfrey show. That would be an interesting subject. This bio so far says nothing detailed about her singing voice.Update: I've read more chapters and it got better, but her writing about the music industry is still the major feature, though she has more on Patsy as well. I found it well written and interesting. But I get the distinct feeling that the author was, in the end, indifferent to Patsy Cline and used her to cover the music industry of the time, where her real interest lay. I've read other bios of celebrities, and the author usually dotes on their subject and usually likes them very much, not in this bio, this author needs to warm up to her subject. I wonder why she chose to write about Patsy Cline, she hasn't written any other biographies. She also knows nothing about singing and music and has no comment on any music. Her quotes from people who knew or worked with Patsy don't seem that convincing in some cases and again, somewhat indifferent, or else they were quoted as saying just a passing, we loved her, she was great, but gave no detail. I guess it's hard to recreate the life of someone who had died 30 years before the time this was first written.
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Description:
Review
“Definitive . . . reads as her life was lived, like the melodramatic but hopelessly 'true' lyrics of a Nashville ballad.” —Los Angeles Times
“Essential reading for anyone seriously involved in a romance with country music.” —LA Weekly
"The Life and Times of Patsy Cline is not only the story of a remarkable woman and her triumphs and tragedies, but is also a history of country music as an art form and as an industry. Compelling, candid, and ultimately readable, it is a fascinating portrait of this beloved vocalist. . . . It will certainly stand as the definitive biography." --Brooklyn After Dark
"[Patsy’s] story is told candidly but lovingly in Margaret Jones’ exhaustively researched biography. . . . Although Jones is skilled at conjuring up the hard-living lot of country musicians on the road in the ‘50s and ‘60s (don’t miss the hilarious story of how Patsy accidentally turned sweet June Carter on to amphetamines), the single most compelling tale in the book is of the torturous 1961 session that produced her signature tune, Willie Nelson’s ‘Crazy.’ Recovering from a near-fatal car accident, embroiled in a hopeless marriage, afraid her career might be over, Cline returned again and again to this most despairing of American standards. ‘It may have been the most dangerous moment of her recording career, and, from an emotional standpoint, her life,’ writes Jones." --Baltimore City Paper
"Cline’s career as a star was very short—six years by generous count—but she was a professional singer for nearly half of her 30-year-life. And though her songs were written by others, they often reflected the drama that enveloped her. That drama is the substance of The Life and Times of Patsy Cline, a thoughtful biography written by Margaret Jones. . . . Jones constructs her picture of the singer from hundreds of interviews, as well as from other books and memoirs. It’s a painstaking job, made more difficult by the several faces Cline presented to her contemporaries—and by the different spirits she carried inside herself. . . . Nor does Jones sensationalize her material. The facts, right up to the tragic plane crash that killed her, are quite dramatic enough, and Cline, clearly a person who required a certain level of angst in her life, could generate her own emotional steam bath when necessary. . . . The Life and Times of Patsy Cline, for all its tragic ending, is in many ways an inspiring book, the honestly told story of a supremely talented woman who subordinated almost everything to her art." --Santa Barbara News Press
"Patsy Cline, who died in 1963 in an airplane crash at age 30, is still—and increasingly, it seems—the most respected female country singer dead or alive. She had the voice, of course, big and pure, but more than that she was everything we now think the ideal woman should be: determined, independent, hard-driving, straight-talking and tough. As it happened, she was also everything we regret: a sucker for bounders, a boozer, a pill popper and crash diet veteran with, as it might be put, low self-esteem. The story of her life as told here details these contradictions and provides an illuminating look at the music business in its crucial years, the late ‘50s and early ‘60s.… Patsy did just fine spitting out what bugged her in concrete matters, complaining, for instance, that the standard ‘girl singer’ ruffled attire of the mid ‘50s made her look like a ‘damn butterfly.’ But when it came to larger things, though she was as tormented as the next person, she hadn’t the wherewithal to put it into words. In the end, her biography convinces one of her essential ordinariness, an ordinariness offset only somewhat by gargantuan will and generosity." --Boston Globe
"Cline comes strutting out of the pages of Jones’ book, slaps the reader on the back with a ‘Hey, Hoss’ and a smile. Her salty language was as much a part of her as was her music. . . . If you close your eyes in between chapters, you can almost hear the music." --Nashville Banner
About the Author
Reviews:
So good I bought another copy to give as a gift
Well-researched, well-written, and explains what the “Nashville sound” was and how Patsy embodied it.
Awesome Book on Patsy Cline!
Great book on my favorite singer Patsy Cline!
Riveting & Excellent
A humorous, close the bone, human, stellar account of research with fitting milieu of the South & the time. Heartwarming & heartbreaking~~~~
Fantastic book
Great book about Patsy Cline
Kind of Indifferent to Patsy
I've read only the first few chapters, up until she's 16 and after having her Opry "audition", but I must say the author gives a far clearer picture of the people around Patsy Cline, than she does of Patsy herself. She also does what she says she didn't do, and that is engage in amateur psychology in the first few chapters, concerning the effects on Patsy of her relationship with her Father. I really resent that kind of speculation and she goes on and on about it.You wouldn't know she was a great singer in the early pages, the reactions of the various people who auditioned her are muted. One said her voice wasn't that good at that point, and when someone else thinks her voice is great the author quickly passes over it. I'd like to know more about what music professionals thought about the qualities of her voice, perhaps it's impossible to report on that, and it was never written down in detail, but still, she could have said that.And furthermore, so far I have a much clearer picture of her Mother and even her Father, who left home when she was around 16, than of her. The author reports of her school attendance at so many different schools, and her grades one year, but has nothing much to say about her personality except for the more outspoken or outrageous aspects of it. It's annoying. You would never know she was a great singer either, she comes across as just one of many trying out. Her voice should be the central theme but it isn't, the music industry is. The author provides a lot of detail about that, and seems to really compliment a number of people that Patsy met and worked with, but never compliments Patsy! Or writes a short sentence about her voice being notable and moves on. Wouldn't her voice and her discovery and people's reaction to it in her early years be worthy of a few paragraphs?I'll continue reading this to the end and gave it three stars because I haven't read that many chapters and the author does give impressive detail about the music industry, but my first impressions aren't entirely good. I'm also concurrently reading the Honky Tonk Angel bio and am further along with that. It too seems to be about the music industry that Patsy encountered and also says little about her voice. Maybe it's impossible to reconstruct her early years, and breaking through, but at least these authors could defer more to their subject. Both biographies seem confused or not entirely sure of who she was. Again, other people in her life are better sketched.I believe she was driven by her own genius, she had her look as well as her sound, the complete package, and was ready from an early age to become a singer, why not say more about that? Instead of implying it was her personality alone that drove her? She was good, and she knew it and that's what drove her, in my opinion. She also must have learned a lot of technique in the nine years she spent playing clubs and bars and trying to get on the Opry, before appearing on the Arthur Godfrey show. That would be an interesting subject. This bio so far says nothing detailed about her singing voice.Update: I've read more chapters and it got better, but her writing about the music industry is still the major feature, though she has more on Patsy as well. I found it well written and interesting. But I get the distinct feeling that the author was, in the end, indifferent to Patsy Cline and used her to cover the music industry of the time, where her real interest lay. I've read other bios of celebrities, and the author usually dotes on their subject and usually likes them very much, not in this bio, this author needs to warm up to her subject. I wonder why she chose to write about Patsy Cline, she hasn't written any other biographies. She also knows nothing about singing and music and has no comment on any music. Her quotes from people who knew or worked with Patsy don't seem that convincing in some cases and again, somewhat indifferent, or else they were quoted as saying just a passing, we loved her, she was great, but gave no detail. I guess it's hard to recreate the life of someone who had died 30 years before the time this was first written.
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