A boy's adventures in travelling to meet his brother returning home from MWI.

The Long Journey

Literature & Fiction

Wayne Greenhaw

Contemporary

River City Publishing

Bobby Lee Butler has the gift of country music. Given an old guitar, his fingers soon learn to summon forth the music, sweet and lonely. Bobby Lee's talent carries him from Montgomery (where he lands a singing job on a local radion station) to Nashville (where the Grand Ole Opry is just a stepping stone to a career on national radio, television, and stunning record sales). He is loved by women wherever they can find him, while his wife and children would love just to see him. Fast-lane living becomes the challenge to Bobby Lee's intrinsic, simple gifts, the source of his power. Greenhaw captures the grit and glamour of country music - with its roots in the rural churches and on the porches of simple frame houses to the glitzy extreme of Lear jets and limousines belonging to the pampered stars. Imagine Robert Altman's film Nashville boiled down to the essence of a single character arc, and you have the treatment Wayne Greenhaw gives Bobby Lee Butler's crowded, crazy thirty-four year life - a classic, triumphant tale of success behind the bright lights, a shocking look at show business and celebrityhood, love ambition, and survival in tabloid-saturated America.

King of Country

United States

W. James Samford, Jr. was a man devoted to public service, private philanthropy, and the joys of deep friendship and family connection. His robust energy for living life to the fullest took him from his storied Alabama roots to the upper branches of Washington society and ultimately back againto the campus of his beloved Auburn University, where he served as president pro tem on the Board of Trustees. He took on all tasks with equal verve, whether he was laboring in the halls of the FDIC or searching Montgomery Countys back roads for the tastiest barbeque. Here, his legacy is recounted by his family, his friends, and his associatesall of whom remember him with love, respect, and humor in stories that evoke the twinkle always evident in his eye. The foundation of Jimmy Samfords life was generosity, and in this portrait of the man from award-winning author Wayne Greenhaw, it becomes evident that generosity is also his legacy.

A Generous Life: W. James Samford, Jr.

Complete and comprehensive pictorial history of the city.

Montgomery: The River City

History

Americas

Montgomery: The Biography of a City

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