| Family, Friends and Fans Contributor(s): Aldean, Jason (Author), Carter, Tom (With) |
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ISBN: 0692941517 ISBN-13: 9780692941515 Publisher: Macon Music, LLC OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Music |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.88 lbs) 156 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Country music star Jason Aldean spent his adolescent years singing in rowdy bars, unaware that they would be his first steps toward achieving icon status. Riding in rickety vans from show to show with his dad, the troubadour juggled his schedule to accommodate school, baseball, working for spare money and playing in dives. Through fate and persistence, Jason was "discovered" in a nightclub by rising record producer Michael Knox, who urged him to move to Nashville where the two could foster a signature sound. Neither knew that their hybrid productions would become resounding anthems for today's avid country music fans. From there, life took some quick, dramatic and sometimes unpredictable turns. Through it all, Jason amassed a litany of experiences -- including speckled memories he'd like to forget, and others he'd like to repeat. In Family, Friends and Fans, Jason looks back at the things that brought him where he is today, and that continue to shape his future. With wisdom, warmth and humor, Jason shares recollections he derived from people with whom he has bonded during his life and career. Jason's first book is a musician's diary set to prose, an entertaining and invaluable manifesto that will uplift the people who've given him so much enlightenment and fulfillment -- his family, friends and fans. He hopes the tales and memories contained in this work will touch and enhance his readers' lives, just as they did his. |
Contributor Bio(s): Carter, Tom: - After twenty years as an award-winning newspaper and magazine reporter, journalist Tom Carter moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1989 to help celebrities write their autobiographies. Two years later, Carter's second co-written book, Memories: The Autobiography of Ralph Emery, rose to number-two on the New York Times best-sellers list. It was the first of seven Times best-sellers he would pen before the end of the 1990s. He also had two USA Today best-sellers. By 1996, he had written more best-selling memoirs during the '90s than any other writer in America, according to People magazine. That title stood through the decade's end. The new millennium saw two works of ghostwritten fiction by Carter, Holiday In Your Heart and A Mother's Gift. Each spawned a prime-time, made-for-TV movie on CBS and ABC. Carter's celebrity clients include Reba McEntire, Britney Spears, Merle Haggard, Glen Campbell, Ronnie Milsap, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, LeAnn Rimes, Ralph Emery and Larry Jones, among others. Oklahoma Associated Press has honored Carter, naming him "News Writer of the Year" and "Columnist of the Year." He is also a former reporter for Time and People magazines. Carter has been a professional writer for 46 years. |