| One More Row to Go: Songs and Poems from a Country Girl Contributor(s): England, Grace Parnell (Author), Wanda, Wade Mukherjee (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0982474121 ISBN-13: 9780982474129 Publisher: Paper Journey Press OUR PRICE: $21.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2013 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6" W x 9" (0.43 lbs) 126 pages |
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| Publisher Description: One night a Soldier came into the bar with a small guitar that he wanted to sell. My boss the owner, Dorothy Woods, (we called her Dot) loved to hear me sing my songs, so she bought it. When I came in the next day, she said, "here," and handed me the guitar. I couldn't believe it. I began to cry. It wasn't that fancy pawn shop guitar I had gazed at so many times wishing I had the money to buy it, but it was my very own guitar. "Well," Dot said, "remember the guy that had the guitar for sale the other night?" I said, "Yes ma'am." She said, "I got it for you for $5.00." So I thanked her and gave her a five-dollar bill. I knew that guy wanted more than $5 for that guitar. Dot knew I couldn't afford much more than $5, so she must've paid the rest. That was the nicest thing any one had ever done for me. --Grace England Songwriter and musician Grace England was born Audrey Grace Parnell on November 1, 1941--All Saints Day. She was born, weighing less than three pounds. It was the beginning of winter in a drafty shotgun shack on the edge of a cotton field in Alabama. At the time of her birth, most of the country was digging itself out of a deep depression. In the Deep South, for families like hers, living in the hills and valleys on farms large and small, that same depression lingered for many years longer. However, by 1950, slowly but steadily, prosperity was finding its way to the families down South, and this was true for the Bill Parnell family. While the poverty was grinding, Southern families like the Parnell's had what they grew in the fields and sewed by hand, they had pride and they had music--boy, did they have music. Grace followed her older brother and sisters around as they played in and around South Alabama as "Bill Jr. Parnell and the Alabama Girls" which at the time included her twin sisters Maxine, Jereldine and her big brother Bill. Grace has been making and writing music since she was knee high-her siblings stood her on a crate because she was too short to reach the microphones at the Country and Western radio stations where they played and sang. This book is a compilation of a few of the songs she has written during her life. Read on, as she tells her life story in song. |