03925cam a2200337 4500 590293119 TxAuBib 20220725120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307912077 0307912078 b33ea1b1-5a24-4d11-ad22-7fb831711ef9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 351517 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Crowell, Rodney. Chinaberry Sidewalks [Libby]. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2011. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 243MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 243MB. Biography & Autobiography. Family & Relationships. Nonfiction. HTML:From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.<br /> The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at Pentecostal tent revivals. He was an expert at reading his father’s mercurial moods and gauging exactly when his mother was likely to erupt, and even before he learned to ride a bike, he was often forced to take matters into his own hands. He broke up his parents’ raucous New Year’s Eve party with gunfire and ended their slugfest at the local drive-in (actual restaurants weren’t on the Crowells’ menu) by smashing a glass pop bottle over his own head.<br /> Despite the violent undercurrents always threatening to burst to the surface, he fiercely loved his epilepsy-racked mother, who scorned boring preachers and improvised wildly when the bills went unpaid. And he idolized his blustering father, a honky-tonk man who took his boy to see Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash perform live, and bought him a drum set so he could join his band at age eleven.<br /> Shot through with raggedy friends and their neighborhood capers, hilariously awkward adolescent angst, and an indelible depiction of the bloodlines Crowell came from, <i>Chinaberry Sidewalks</i> also vividly re-creates Houston in the fifties: a rough frontier town where icehouses sold beer by the gallon on paydays; teeming with musical venues from standard roadhouses to the Magnolia Gardens, where name-brand stars brought glamour to a place starved for it; filling up with cheap subdivisions where blue-collar day laborers could finally afford a house of their own; a place where apocalyptic hurricanes and pest infestations were nearly routine.<br /> But at its heart this is Crowell’s tribute to his parents and an exploration of their troubled yet ultimately redeeming romance. Wry, clear-eyed, and generous, it is, like the very best memoirs, firmly rooted in time and place and station, never dismissive, and truly fulfilling. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-24 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/351517-ChinaberrySidewalks.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/351517-ChinaberrySidewalks.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B33EA1B1-5A24-4D11-AD22-7FB831711EF9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/351517-ChinaberrySidewalks.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/351517-ChinaberrySidewalks.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B33EA1B1-5A24-4D11-AD22-7FB831711EF9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)