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Nashville Portraits

Legends Of Country Music

Jim Mcguire illustrator William Ferris editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield

Published:1st Jan '08

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Jim McGuire’s photographs have graced the covers of more than 400 albums and CDs over the past thirty years. Most of the big recording stars insist on using McGuire: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Doc Watson, Dolly Parton, Carole King, Townes Van Zandt, John Hartford, Emmylou Harris and Reba McEntire, to name a few. Sixty of his these acclaimed portraits are slated for a two-year-long traveling museum exhibit that opens in Nashville in the Fall of 2007, sponsored by the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta. This book features the photos in beautiful duotones on heavy stock paper, each with a quote from one of the Nashville musicians talking about the beauty of McGuire’s work. This landmark gift book will appeal to anyone who appreciates American artistry, whether or not they love country music.

“This book is a treasure--McGuire's pictures do everything except burst into song.” Mark Knopfler“You can almost hear these pictures, can’t you?”Roy Blount Jr. “One of the best photographic shows you will ever see. . . . This is great stuff. See if, if you possibly can.”Chet FlippoCMT/CMT.com Editorial Director “At first glance, there seems to be something very quiet and pensive about his black and white images. That’s the way it has always been with McGuire’s work. “Yet, as we peer at them, we begin to hear the faint melodies of lives well lived. They are what McGuire has always done best. With his passion for music and for the musician, he makes these men and women come alive before us. And in that silence, they begin to sing and play for us again.” Robert HicksAuthor of The Widow of the South “Looking at McGuire’s portraits, we’re able to grasp some essence of their creativity, to feel the mark that each has left on the city, and on musical history.”Jonathan MarxThe Tennessean

ISBN: 9781599211688

Dimensions: 254mm x 254mm x 18mm

Weight: 75g

160 pages