Author: TANYA TUCKER, with Patsi Bale Cox. Published by Hyperion, New York, NY., 1997, 1st Edition. Printed in USAa. Very Good Condition HARDCOVER Book, and Very Good Condition Dust Jacket. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9.5 x 6.25 inch, 345 pages.
NICKEL DREAMS, MY LIFE by TANYA TUCKER, with Patsi Bale Cox, is the biography of one of Country and Western's shooting stars, and details her life history.
Born into poverty, the grandchild of sharecroppers, Tanya grew up poor in a family that had come out of the Oklahoma hills in the Great Depression. Her family imbued her early on with a love of country music - and of being Tucker tough. Also early on, Tanya decided she wanted to become a country music singer. Her father, Beau, was determined that she and her sister La Costa, also a budding singer, would succeed. On an impulsive trip to Nashville, he buttonholed anyone who would listen, often brushing past secretaries and into executive offices brandishing a demo tape. When this expedition came to nothing he moved the family to Las Vegas, where, he figured, someone had to listen to his girls. After singing in every honky-tonk and piano bar she could find, Tanya's first big break came when Billy Sherill signed her up at age 13 and gave her the song Delta Dawn, which became her anthem and a huge runaway hit, topping the country charts. Tanya talks candidly about the whirlwind of sudden celebrity, the Rolling Stone article that catapulted her to even higher fame.
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1st Edition Hardcover Book
ISBN: 9780786863056
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