As the year winds down I'd like to thank everyone who has been a reader of this blog. I hope that you've discovered some books you might not have otherwise and I hope that my author interview have helped you get to know some of the authors and their motivations for bringing you the information they do.
In the next couple of weeks I will mainly be posting about some of my favorite books of the year. There have been a lot of great books this year, whether it was a music biography or an in-depth study on a given topic.
To help celebrate the end of the year and a good start to this blog, I am offering up two (2) prize packs with some of my favorite books from the last quarter of 2008. Here is what each contains:
No Depression #76 - this is the "bookazine" that has taken up the ND mantle and offers more of the coverage and articles you've come to expect from ND.
Behind The Grand Ole Opry Curtain by Robert K. Oermann - if you didn't win one last time, here is your chance.
Sing Me Back Home by Dana Jennings - a great read I will be discussing soon.
The Hayloft Gang edited by Chad Berry - One of my top five of the year.
Thanks to University of Texas Press, Hachette, Faber & Faber and The University of Illinois Press for providing these great books!
So, just leave a comment to sign up for this drawing! The winner will be announced Friday, Dec. 19. (Unfortunalte this contest is only open to US residents. If you are entering the drawing, and I don't know who you are, you MUST leave an e-mail address to be entered. Enteries without an e-mail address (either left or in profile) will be disqualified.)
Good Luck!
Monday, December 15, 2008
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16 comments:
Consider me entered, please! I have really enjoyed this blog and have especially liked the books that cover the cali-country/70's scene that have been introduced to me...
-Kelly from The Gobblers Knob
Sign me up, too.
Crossing my fingers.
James R. from Ararat, NC.
I find your blogs always of interest.
sign me up!!
RW
sign me up! saw your post on p2. this is a great blog idea - keep it up.
Kevin Fredette
Boston, MA
kevin_fredette@comcast.net
My first time to th eblog and I am really impresses. I just read To live is to fly, the TVZ biography that came out last year and really enjoyed it. It's good to know that there is a blog like this out there.
Mike K
mgkissner@gmail.com
Thanks everyone, I am glad people are enjoying the blog! (And James, please post an email address if you want to be in teh drawing. I hate to be a stick in the mud with that, but it is too time consuming to track people down)
Michael, If you liked "To Live Is To Fly" you should also check out "A Deeper Blue" by Robert Earl Hardy. It was books like that that made me want to start this blog - it's a good book that I felt was more objective than TLITF, but, being released on a University Press, didn't get the marketing push TLITF did.
Yes, Please
Karen, from Flufflist
Terrific blog, Eric. Especially like the new and upcoming releases post - handy resource.
Mitchell Moore
I am hoping the ghost of Christmas future looks kindly on me.
Please enter me in your drawing.
Thanks,
Mike from Jacksonville, IL
I'm game.
This is a great idea for a blog. Keep it rolling!
Cheers,
T Booth
Sign me up. I love your blog. It fills a real need
I really enjoy the blog - thanks for doing the giveaway.
Leslie
leslieablair@gmail.com
Consider me entered too. Also, since this contest seems to come about in the context of year end best of pontificating, I'd just like to put in a plug for Carl Wilson's book about Celene Dion (it might actually have a pub date in late 2007--can't remember), but I think of it as a 2008 book. The UK Mail said it was the best music book of the year. I'm inclined to things that's pretty spot on.
Jake L
Um, that last comment should read "I'm inclined to think that's pretty spot on."
Sign me up too! My goal for next year is to really build up my country music library.
Leeann Ward
Country Universe
leeann@countryuniverse.net
You asked for me to add an email address, so it's James_Ruchala@brown.edu
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