![]() His voice was much deeper than I remembered, and sounded like he had aged and wizened. There were occasional vignettes with Hall himself telling a short anecdote. I listened to this as an audiobook, read mostly by Hall’s co-author. This read like a normal guy telling how he worked and played with the stars in country music circles. I surely didn’t get that from other singers’ books (well, maybe Johnny Cash and his compounds). He talks about his real estate investments throughout this book as if the choice of where to live (and to buy) was the most important decision he made. He details the pay he got as a songwriter, and describes the roommates and the drinking and some of the parties. As a songwriter, Hall presents his story as an artist, but also as a normal guy in a normal career. As a songwriter, you can be as private with your life as you want, but Hall notes that once you become an entertainer, much of that freedom is gone. But Hall is the first to tell you that he was a songwriter first and foremost, and morphed into his second persona as an entertainer only later in his career. And you do get the view from inside the music business. ![]() ![]() After reading a number of biographies and autobiographies of music stars, like Johnny Cash, Springsteen, Elvis Costello, George Jones and Loretta Lynn recently, I was kind of expecting the same thing here. ![]()
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