CHASING FIREFLIES
About the book
They say there is a book in everybody. Well, if that's true, it took me nearly thirty years to write mine!
My story tells of a visit I made to the United States in 1974 when two friends and I decided to head down to Nashville, Tennessee to attend a six-day music festival.
At the time I was employed by BBC local radio in the north east of England and every Sunday I presented a country music programme called "Country Time." It seemed, at this time, most of my colleagues who presented similar programmes within the local radio network had already been to Nashville - and I was probably the only one who had not.
I was about to rectify this, a trip of a lifetime for me. Until now I had only ever been abroad once - to Majorca. For my two travel companions, it was their first overseas holiday.
This is the story of those two weeks. It is not all about music and Nashville. It is about our experiences, thoughts, memories and the fun we had on the way to Tennessee - via New York, Newark and Virginia and on our way back home travelling through Kentucky, Indiana and Pennsylvania.
How nice it was, too, to meet people such as Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash - and a relatively unknown guitar player called Jerry Reed, who wrote songs and played guitar for Elvis Presley, and later went on to make several hit movies with Burt Reynolds and Gene Hackman.
Some Reviews
The Leader, Spain, Tuesday May 4, 2004.
Hartlepool Mail, May 2004.
Round Town News, Spain April/May 2004.
Hartlepool Mail , Friday April 30th, 2004
Evening Gazette, Middlesbrough, April 30, 2004
British Country Music Association Bulletin, June 2004
Country Music People March 2005
"… an engrossing, and sometimes hilarious, read."
Nashville singer/songwriter, Jimmy Payne said
"Chasing
Fireflies" is a great book and makes me feel I took the trip
with him.
"Chasing
Fireflies" sells for £16 (€23, $27.50) and is published by
Trafford. It is available through their website and from other major
book outlets on the Internet. ISBN 1-4120-2097-2
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need your name, address, credit card and delivery information on the
order form in your shopping basket. Their server is "secure" but if you
are hesitant about sending your financial information over the Internet,
you can copy down the information and then phone, mail or fax your
order.
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