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You’ve heard them on the radio, listened to them on repeat for days, and sang along at the top of your lungs—but have you ever wondered about the real stories behind all your favorite country songs? Nashville Songwriter gives readers the first completely authorized collection of the true stories that inspired hits by the biggest multi-platinum country superstars of the last half century—recounted by the songwriters themselves. Award-winning music biographer Jake Brown gives readers an unprecedented, intimate glimpse inside the world of country music songwriting.Featuring exclusive commentary from country superstars and chapter-length interviews with today’s biggest hit-writers on Music Row, this book chronicles the stories behind smash hits such as:Willie Nelson’s “Always on My Mind”Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying,” “Southern Voice,” and “Real Good Man”George Jones’s “Tennessee Whiskey”Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus Take the Wheel” and “Cowboy Casanova”Brooks & Dunn’s “Ain’t Nothing ’Bout You”Lady Antebellum’s “We Owned the Night” and “Just a Kiss”Brad Paisley’s “Mud on the Tires,” “We Danced,” and “I’m Still a Guy”Luke Bryan’s “Play It Again,” “Crash My Party,” and “That’s My Kind of Night”The Oak Ridge Boys’s “American Made”George Strait’s “Ocean Front Property” and “The Best Day,”Rascal Flatts’s “Fast Cars and Freedom,” and “Take Me There”Kenny Chesney’s “Living in Fast Forward” and “When the Sun Goes Down”Ricochet’s “Daddy’s Money”Montgomery Gentry’s “If You Ever Stop Loving Me”The Crickets’s “I Fought the Law”Tom T. Hall’s “A Week in a County Jail” and “That Song Is Driving Me Crazy”Trace Adkins’s “You’re Gonna Miss This”David Lee Murphy’s “Dust on the Bottle”Jason Aldean’s “Big Green Tractor” and “Fly Over States”And many more top country hits over the past 40 years!

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Go behind the scenes with the musician  The New York Times  called “a guitar God"—in this new edition featuring   an   all-new chapter on Joe's latest album,  Shockwave Supernova , and bonus interviews!   Oft-hailed as the Jimi Hendrix of his generation, living guitar legend Joe Satriani has long transcended stylistic boundaries with a sound that raises the bar like a new horizon for the broader genre of instrumental guitar rock. Joe’s 6-string secrets have astounded listeners around the world for nearly 30 years.In  Strange Beautiful Music: A Musical Memoir , Satriani and coauthor, music biographer Jake Brown, take fans on their first authorized tour of the story behind his climb to stardom and the creative odyssey involved in writing and recording a storied catalog of classics including “Surfing with the Alien,” “Summer Song,” “Satch Boogie,” “Always With Me, Always With You,” “The Extremist,” “Flying in a Blue Dream,” “Crowd Chant,” and more. Featuring previously unpublished photos and hours of exclusive, firsthand interviews with Satriani,  Strange Beautiful Music  offers a unique look inside the studio with Joe, giving fans a chance to get up close and personal like never before. With insider details about his collaboration with multi-platinum supergroup Chickenfoot, exclusive interviews with Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony of Van Halen and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, commentary from fellow guitar legends such as Steve Vai, Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, Primus’s Larry LaLonde, and legendary music producers including Glynn Johns and the late Andy Johns, this memoir offers a rare inside look for die-hard Satriani fans, guitar enthusiasts, and anyone who loves to rock.

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Iron Maiden are without one of heavy metal's most successful indie bands. From their first album in 1980 they have led the way in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with Billboard pointing out they have 'always been an underground attraction'. Though other pioneering peers like Metallica have been around on the scene just as long provided their own innovations metal and advanced the genre to a mainstream level, it was Iron Maiden who have been the fans' favourites. Their crossover to chart success showed many bands how it could be done. They were key in getting heavy metal to be accepted as a credible genre. With an impressive catalogue of 15 studio albums spread over 20 years including Iron Maiden (1980), The Number of the Beast (1982), Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and The Final Frontier (2010), their influence speaks for itself. For the first time ever, the writing and recording of such iconic hits as 'The Number of the Beast', 'Flight of Icarus', 'Two Minutes to Midnight', 'Wasted Years', 'Can I Play with Madness' and 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' are explored in-depth. This book takes you into the studio with a band who show no sign of slowing down and whose influence can still be heard in a thousand metal bands today.

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