SIGNED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION

Flippo, Chet

Your Cheatin' Heart: A Biography of Hank Williams [SIGNED]

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.

THE LIFE BEHIND THE  AND THE SONGS.
Chet Flippo traces Hank Williams from his Alabama beginnings through his rapid rise to national fame and his death at twenty-nine. Drawing together Williams's music, family relationships, career, and personal struggles, Flippo presents the man behind such enduring songs as 'Your Cheatin' Heart,' 'Jambalaya,' and 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.'

Signed by Chet Flippo on the front free endpaper and dated April 6, 1981.

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Octavo, approximately 9.25 inches tall. 251 pages with index. Hardcover in publisher's binding with illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates. The original jacket price of $13.95 remains intact.First edition, first printing.

CONDITION: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD. Bindings tight and square. Text clean with light, even age-toning and moderate shelf handling wear. Some age-spotting on the textblock edges. Dust jacket with minimal wear, protected in Mylar, with the $13.95 price intact.

CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: DEFINING THE HANK WILLIAMS LEGACY.
Published less than thirty years after Williams's death, Flippo's biography examines the extraordinary compression of his career—from relative obscurity in the late 1940s to a figure whose songwriting helped reshape American country music.

Flippo places the songs within Williams's troubled personal history and the changing country-music industry, making the book both a biography and a record of the emergence of one of American popular music's defining figures.

SUBJECTS: Hank Williams, Chet Flippo, Country Music, American Music, Songwriting, Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, Alabama, Twentieth-Century Popular Culture, Biography, Music Biography, Country Music, Americana, Popular Music.

Item #22442
ISBN: 0671241141

Price: $85.00