Snowflakes Country Songs

Country singer, Lily May, and mechanic, Johnny, couldn't be more different if they tried. But when a twist of fate finds them both stranded in Promise, Colorado during a snowstorm, instant chemistry and a fondness for the holidays brings them together. In this fun and heartwarming, opposites attract, snowed-in love story, you'll learn why nothing goes together like snowflakes & country songs.

10-Year-Old Chase Blaine only has one wish for Christmas. To have a normal family with a Mom and a Dad. It’s all he’s ever wanted. So, when his Mom tells him the legend behind the fountain in the town square, he takes a chance that it might be true and makes his wish. When a snowstorm causes his bus to crash, Rockstar Dylan St. James ventures out into the storm looking for help. Guided by Christmas lights, he finds himself on the doorstep of the Blaine family and face to face with the woman who’s haunted his dreams for a decade.Sierra Blaine can’t believe her eyes when she opens her door. She hasn’t seen Dylan in over a decade. Not since a horrific accident took every memory, he had of her. Hoping he might someday remember her, she returned home to the small town she grew up in. Forced together by circumstance, Dylan’s memories begin to return, but has too much time passed for him and Sierra? Or will it only take a little spark for their former passion to reignite?

Molly Swift had a choice to make that fateful Christmas Eve: break her boyfriend’s heart or become a famous country music star. She chose stardom and, for awhile, all was a picture book fairy tale for Molly. She cut her debut album, made the rounds on the concert tour, and then…nothing. When Molly’s agent dumps her just before Thanksgiving a few years later, she has nowhere left to go but her hometown of Snowflake, South Carolina. There she struggles to find work. That is, until she happens in on a little year-round Christmas restaurant called Café Kringle and finds her ex-flame, Nate Night, at the piano, tickling the ivories. Can Nate forgive Molly for running out on him? What’s more, can Molly forgive herself? And can the two team up to bring customers into the Café Kringle before its owner decides to close the doors before the holidays?

More than twenty years in the making, Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942 documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through 1942. Until now, discographies of pre-World War II country music recordings were only to be found scattered in journals and fanzines, or in books devoted to single artists. With primary research based on files and session logs from record companies, interviews with surviving musicians, as well as the 200,000 recordings archived at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Frist Library and Archives, this notable work is the first compendium to accurately report the key details behind all the recording sessions of country music during the pre-World War II era. In doing so it tells the commercial story of the music's first two decades. From the first recordings of country music, this discography documents--in alphabetical order by artist--every commercial country music recording, including unreleased sides, and indicates, as completely as possible, the musicians playing at every session, as well as instrumentation. This massive undertaking encompasses 2,500 artists, 5,000 session musicians, and 10,000 songs. An introduction explains how to use the book, research methodology, and editorial policy; summary histories of each key record company are also provided, along with a bibliography. The discography includes indexes to all song titles and musicians listed. Country Music Records is an indispensable resource for anyone seriously interested in early country music recordings.

The contributors comprise a "Who's Who" of country music in this book of anecdotes, funny songs, and a tribute to the late Chet Atkins.

"Weather is the oldest story in the world-one we want to keep on telling each other when we meet, as though it were part of who we are, a story that wants to keep on telling itself, and affecting us, whether we like it or not. We breathe it in; we see embodied in it our fears and desires; it falls on our heads. And we'd better take care of it: our lives are in its hands." Marrying photographs from the collection of the National Library of Australia with an evocative and contemplative essay by poet Mark Tredinnick, Australia's Wild Weather is a lyric field guide to Australia's climate. Tredinnick considers what it means to be living at time when weather is no longer small talk; it is most of the news. Beautifully written, the author contemplates what weather means to us and how it affects our daily lives.