TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oglesby,Christopher J.
AU  - Allen,Jo Harvey
AU  - Allen,Terry
AU  - Bone,Ponty
AU  - Bowden,Richard
AU  - Boy Adams,Jay
AU  - Burns,Downé
AU  - Caldwell,Don
AU  - Dale Gilmore,Jimmie
AU  - Davis,Mac
AU  - Ely,Joe
AU  - Gilmore,Colin
AU  - Halley,David
AU  - Hancock,Butch
AU  - Hancock,Tom
AU  - Jaggers,Bruce
AU  - Juke,Guy
AU  - Keys,Bobby
AU  - Livingston,Bob
AU  - Maines,Lloyd
AU  - Oglesby,Christopher J.
AU  - Parks,Wade
AU  - Pierce,Jo Carol
AU  - Rhodes,Kimmie
AU  - Smith,Doug
AU  - Strehli,Angela
AU  - Swinney,Cary
AU  - Taylor,Jesse
AU  - ely,sharon
TI  - Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music 
T2  - Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series
SN  - 9780292794245
U1  - 781.64092/2764847 22
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Artists
KW  - Texas, West
KW  - Interviews
KW  - Musicians
KW  - MUSIC / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air --; The Legends --; Going Back to the Dirt --; Underground Lubbock --; It’s Amazing How Much Gets Done --; Chicken-Fried Memories --; Selling the Family Farm for a Song --; Like a Rolling Stone --; The Supernatural Family Band --; The Universe in a Grain of Sand --; Blues in a Texas Town --; A Bad Loud Place --; Illumination on the Streets of Lubbock --; The Greatest Show on Earth --; Lord of the Highway --; Living on Dreams --; West Texas Angel --; Take Me Back to Paradox City --; Bad Girl Upset by the Truth --; Life Imitates Art --; Hitchhiking to Nirvana --; Desperate Searcher --; Music Ordained by God --; Back to the Basics of Love --; Gonzo Compadre --; Nothing Else to Do --; Living in Dichotomy --; Hub City Mover --; Happiness Is Lubbock, Texas --; Appendix I: Selected Discographies --; Appendix II: Original Interviews --; Index; restricted access
N2  - From Buddy Holly and the Crickets to the Flatlanders, Terry Allen, and Natalie Maines, Lubbock, Texas, has produced songwriters, musicians, and artists as prolifically as cotton, conservatives, and windstorms. While nobody questions where the conservatives come from in a city that a recent nonpartisan study ranked as America's second most conservative, many people wonder why Lubbock is such fertile ground for creative spirits who want to expand the boundaries of thought in music and art. Is it just that "there's nothing else to do," as some have suggested, or is there something in the character of Lubbock that encourages creativity as much as conservatism? In this book, Christopher Oglesby interviews twenty-five musicians and artists with ties to Lubbock to discover what it is about this community and West Texas in general that feeds the creative spirit. Their answers are revealing. Some speak of the need to rebel against conventional attitudes that threaten to limit their horizons. Others, such as Joe Ely, praise the freedom of mind they find on the wide open plains. "There is this empty desolation that I could fill if I picked up a pen and wrote, or picked up a guitar and played," he says. Still others express skepticism about how much Lubbock as a place contributes to the success of its musicians. Jimmie Dale Gilmore says, "I think there is a large measure of this Lubbock phenomenon that is just luck, and that is the part that you cannot explain." As a whole, the interviews create a portrait not only of Lubbock's musicians and artists, but also of the musical community that has sustained them, including venues such as the legendary Cotton Club and the original Stubb's Barbecue. This kaleidoscopic portrait of the West Texas music scene gets to the heart of what it takes to create art in an isolated, often inhospitable environment. As Oglesby says, "Necessity is the mother of creation. Lubbock needed beauty, poetry, humor, and it needed to get up and shake its communal ass a bit or go mad from loneliness and boredom; so Lubbock created the amazing likes of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, Terry Allen, and Joe Ely."
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/714199
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292794245
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292794245/original
ER  -