Country Music Broke My Brain: A Behind-the-Microphone Peek at Nashville's Famous and Fabulous Stars

by Gerry House, Reba McEntire (Foreword by)

Overview

Nashville is filled with stars and lovers and writers and dreamers. Nashville is also teeming with lunatics and grifters and dip wads and moochers. Gerry House fits easily into at least half of those categories. Someone would probably have to be brain-damaged or really damn talented to try to entertain professional entertainers over a decades-long radio show in Music City, USA.

Fortunately, House is little of both.

Host of the nationally syndicated, top-rated morning show, "Gerry House&The Foundation” for more than 25 years, he has won virtually every broadcasting award there is including a place in the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Gerry also spent that time deep inside the songwriting and recording world in Nashville.

In Country Music Broke My Brain, Gerry tells his stories from the other side of the microphone. He reveals never-aired, never-before published conversations with country music’s biggest names—Johnny Cash, Brad Paisley, and Reba McEntire to name a few—and leaves you with his own crazy antics that will either have you laughing or shaking your head in disbelief.

With exclusive celebrity stories, humorous trivia and anecdotes, and broadcasting wisdom, this book is a treat for country music fans or for anyone who wants a good laugh.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781939529916
Publisher:	BenBella Books
Publication date:	03/04/2014
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	258,752
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Gerry House worked in the music industry’s famed Music Row district in Nashville for 30 years, the last 22 of which found him behind the microphone every weekday morning hosting Gerry House&The House Foundation, the top-rated morning radio show on WSIX-FM, for more than 20 years and broadcast nationally via Sirius/XM.

Gerry is, first and foremost, a writer. He wrote his own daily radio material and also stand-up jokes and TV scripts for other shows for years, including the ACM Awards, the CMA Awards, the CMT Awards, and American Idol.

He's also written more than 50 songs recorded by artists including Brad Paisley, LeAnn Rimes, George Strait, Reba McEntire, Randy Travis, Clint Black, Trace Adkins and many others. His hits such as "Little Rock," "On The Side of Angels," "The Big One" and "The River and the Highway" have sold millions of records.

Editorial Reviews

05/01/2014
House, who describes himself as "possibly America's #1 Country Radio Personality," delivers a summing-up of his career as disc jockey, television host, songwriter, and confidant of Nashville's famous and infamous. In a tone that would not seem out of place on the "Blue Collar Comedy" tour, he regales the reader with anecdotes concerning the adventures of Johnny Paycheck's dentures (they end up in a fan's bouffant); vacationing with and without Reba McEntire; and Taylor Swift alternately gushing over him and snubbing him when she no longer needs his support. House balances the Nashville name-dropping with print versions of the comedic set pieces that have graced his airtime through the years. The overall tone is light. The autobiographical sections reveal a small-town boy from Kentucky who can't get over the fact that he runs into Shania Twain at the local Kroger's. VERDICT While contributing nothing substantial to country music scholarship or criticism, this volume should delight fans of House's radio show—and there are more than a few of them.—John Frank, Los Angeles P.L.

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