Sing It Pretty: A Memoir (Music in American Life)
“She learned the tools of folklore fieldwork by transcribing the songs of rural musicians and taught herself how to play these songs, eventually joining the Almanac Singers, which included Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, as part of a growing folk movement. . . . Libraries with comprehensive folk music collections will want to own her memoir.”--Library Journal"This volume covers much . . . of Hawes's fascinating public and private lives in folk music, and includes numerous photographs and a helpful chronology. . . . Recommended."--Choice"This book is loaded with enjoyable anecdotes from throughout Ms. Hawes' 89 years. . . . Along the way, we meet many seminal folk music figures and, though these are characters we've all met before, thanks to Bess' storytelling skills, we often see them in a new light."--Sing Out