Nashville Portraits : Legends of Country Music

by McGuire, Jim; Ferris, William

• ISBN13: 9781599211688
• ISBN10: 1599211688
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

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 Zant, John Hartford, Emmylou Harris and Reba McIntyre, to name a few. Sixty of his these acclaimed portraits are slated for a two-year-long travelling 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.

Author Biography

Jim McGuire's photographs have graced more than 400 album covers.

John Egerton has been a "professional South-watcher" for half a century. He is an award-winning writer who had written more than 15 books about the social and cultural, political and economic trends that forever have made the American South the unique place that it is. His strongest-selling trade title is Cornbread Nation, a food book. He is the author of 15 books and has contributed articles to the Washington Post and New York Times Magazine, and numerous university presses.

The Morris Museum of Art, located on the Riverwalk in downtown Augusta, is home to a broad-based survey collection of Southern art. As a museum dedicated to exhibiting and exploring the art and artists of the South, the Morris is preserving and enhancing a cultural legacy. The museum is housed in the Augusta Riverfront Center, a unique adaptation of office space to a museum setting.
The museum was established by William S. Morris III, chairman and CEO of Morris Communications Corporation, headquartered in Augusta. Dedicated to the memory of his parents, William Shivers Morris Jr. and Florence Alden Hill Morris Rickenbacker, the museum opened to the public in September of 1992.