Texas soundtrack
Subtitle: Texas stories inspired by Texas music
By: Terry Dalrymple, editor
Publisher: Ink Brush Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Temple, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780983596820
Subjects: American Short stories; Fiction; Music and literature; Country music; Music
Other titles: Texas stories inspired by Texas music
Description: "Songwriters, Texan or otherwise, are storytellers. Their stories are brief, maybe three or four verses that take three or four minutes to sing. ... Their work is not dense with detail; it is dense with implications that grow from just the right details. ... Texas songwriters tell hundreds of such suggestive stories. ... So how ... might Texas fiction writers use some of those musical tales for inspiration? ... The challenge was simple: write stories somehow inspired by songs of any genre written or performed by Texas musicians. The best results are the thirteen stories selected for inclusion here"--The Editor, p. ix.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Made in Texas  -- Daniel Makins; title: Song of the four snakes  -- Chris Ellery; title: Econoline  -- Amanda Gann Churchill; title: Shambala  -- Laurence Musgrove; title: Ridin' my thumb to Mexico  -- Dave Kuhne; title: Bring Lyndon home  -- Mark Busby; title: A proposition  -- Chuck Taylor; title: Two men- three shoes  -- A.C. Jerroll; title: Shimmerdance  -- Laura Payne Butler; title: The deacon's horse  -- Clay Reynolds; title: How to listen to country music  -- Laurie Champion; title: Massage therapy  -- Jim Sanderson; title: Jelvis  -- Andrew Geyer; title: Bigger wheel -- Wayne Nichols.