Comments on: Book Review: Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music by Dana Jennings

By: james

james — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:00:34 +0000

This book COULD have been so good!! The characters, the songs, the memories, if only it had been written in plain english.In it , Mr Jennings talks about “getting above your raising”, and that’s just what he did here. It would have much more enjoyable to read if it had been kept on a simpler, more country level……

By: Chip

Chip — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:11:41 +0000

I loved this book. It really resonated with me. On the contrary, I didn’t think it was wordy at all. I coudn’t put it down.

By: Rascal Flatts’ Joe Don Rooney & Tiffany Fallon Have a Son -- The 9513

Rascal Flatts’ Joe Don Rooney & Tiffany Fallon Have a Son -- The 9513 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:38:50 +0000

[...] Jennings, author of Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music (read Brady’s review), shares a playlist of songs and with the exception of one song, they all hail from between 1950 [...]

By: Baron Lane

Baron Lane — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:45:56 +0000

Great book. I enjoyed it very much.

By: CRAIG R.

CRAIG R. — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:12:23 +0000

Mike I have no doubt that the suburbs can open up great country songs. Songs about want and need- songs about how marriage can change when you have made it, and you aren’t living in the hills anymore- songs about past desires and future hopes. One of the problems with country music today is that those issues are sung about too little. Also the lyrics are missing depth and storylines- which to me is what makes country music unique. These hats acts rarely rise to the merit of the attention they get. It takes more- at least it should-to sing a great country song than a twang, a fiddle, and a few country cliches. Some of these country acts aren’t even country. They are just poorly placed pop acts that are supported by teenagers. Country music use to be the domian of adults. Now it is filled with pretty boys, macho idiots, and female shakers without one lick of a twang. (ask Faith,Kenny and Tim where their twang went)
Finally I spelled cul-de-sac wrong. Sorry I am one bad speller, and I should be far more careful.

By: Mike Parker

Mike Parker — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:01:35 +0000

So does that mean country music has nowhere to go? There are hardships in the “coldersacks,” they’re just different hardships. Real human stories still exist. From run down farms to city skyscrapers, there are stories to tell. Country music should be the genre to tell those stories. That’s what I think of when I hear “Highwayman.” Country music has stories to be told from the old west to outer space. Just please, oh God please, don’t anyone remake Planet Texas…

By: CRAIG R.

CRAIG R. — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:41:03 +0000

I haven’t read this book yet. But the review reminds me something my mother told me about a year ago. I was bitchin’ about how old country( 1930-1980) was better in everyway because it was about real people,their real problems, real life, and real desires. I also said that all working people ( whites,blacks,Latins) influenced and could connect to the true stories. My mother said that real problem between old and new country is that old country came from the hills, hollers and farms. And new country comes from the suburbs and the coldersacks. I miss old country because the voices were real. I miss real voices.