Country great and funny man Ray Stevens is giving fans of music, Nashville and everything in between something to look forward to with the release of his career memoir, Ray Stevens' Nashville.
The book is set to hit stores on Sunday (June 22) through Father & Son Publishing Inc. The book is a historical and educational memoir detailing the music legend's career, beginning with humble upbringings in Clarkdale, Georgia and his journey to Music City, USA where he would find worldwide success and become one of the original pioneers of Music Row.
"Nashville has been my home for over 50 years," notes Stevens. "When I first came to this city, Music Row was not fully developed and the music business was mostly in the downtown area. There was no 'Nashville Sound,' no major league teams or interstate highways and no Opryland. The recording studios and publishing offices were scattered around town. It was very different then but still today, it feels like home to me."
Cyrus "Buddy" Kalb, the book's co-writer and Stevens' longtime business associate notes, "People are always asking me, 'Do you manage Ray Stevens?' My answer is, 'No... Ray is completely unmanageable!' But I am honored to have helped him write his career memoir. Ray Stevens' Nashville contains no shocking revelations about drug addictions or sordid affairs. It's simply a historical documentation of an all-American kid from a Georgia mill town who became a member of the inner circle of musicians on Music Row who helped produce the world-famous 'Nashville Sound.'"
However, Ray Stevens' Nashville is much more than an extensive biography of a Country and Comedy music legend. It is the story of how the sleepy southern city of Nashville grew and blossomed into the international music mecca that it is today, as told by a music legend who experienced it all first-hand.
The memoir will be available for purchase in-stores and online through Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and RayStevens.com.
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