More Memories Author:Ralph Emery, Tom Carter One of the most exciting best-sellers in recent memory was Ralph Emery's Memories, the autobiography of the popular host of TNN's Nashville Now. The reason was simple: people love Ralph Emery and his wonderful recollections about the world of country music. And now Emery picks up where Memories left off. — Emery himself says his first boo... more »k drew on less than one percent of his memories of his years on television. With More Memories he takes readers backstage and into the limelight with tales about dozens of top stars, including Willie Nelson, Jimmy Dean, Reba McEntire, Glen Campbell, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, and many more.
Readers will travel the same roads these stars have traveled: roads of happiness, despair, excess, recovery, estrangement, and reconciliation. Their stories are at once harrowing, funny, inspiring, and heartwarming.
Within these pages Emery uncovers new facts and mysteries, surrounding the death of Patsy Cline; reveals how the Grammy Awards Show ended up in Nashville one year; and why it may never return there again; explains why a square-dance call in Texas mortified the local gentry; and relates the visit of Roy Acuff's ghost to the TNN offices. And those are just a few of the memories Emery shares.« less