Confessions of a Maddog: A Romp through the High-flying Texas Music and Literary Era of the Fifties to the Seventies
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (647 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1574410504 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Frank Dobie and his paisanos and the current bumper crop of Texas writers who seem to be everywhere writing about everything. This is his story.Jay Milner was part of a generation of Texas writers whose heyday lasted from the late 1950s through the 1970s. King, Pete Gent, and (peripherally) Larry McMurtry and Willie Morris, among others.From the musical scene there were the "picker poets" such as Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, and Waylon Jennings.Some of the primary works coming from this generation of writers inc
Lee Leatherwood said Fun, Thoughtful, and Historical. I had a fun time reading this book by Jay Milner. It's a really great chronicle of the exploits of a renegade group of Texas writers, musicians, artists, and politicos, as well a chronicle of Milner's own life as a novelist, university professor, and journalist.Much of the fun in this book takes place in the mid 60s through mid 70s Texas, when Milner's running buddie. A heady trot thru the era of great fun loving Texans A Customer Milner has exceeded himself with this book. His compassionate record of the exploits and traumas of several of his friends as they hone their writing skills is superb. I refer you to page 222 for the most touching prose regarding one's journey up to and into the abyss of the dark night of one's soul. Billy Lee chose to go into the abyss and stay. Obviously Milner cho. "Maddogs and Texans" according to Joe Murray. Old Jay Milner of Fort Worth, who grinds out a new book every Maddogs and Texans Old Jay Milner of Fort Worth, who grinds out a new book every 35 years or so, has finally come out with his long-awaited second opus, "Confessions of a Maddog." Jay and I are old friends. He has lived out 10 lifetimes or so, such are the roles he played . High school state football champion, Lubbock, 1939. War hero. (He taught WACs how to swim.)College gridiron star . 5 years or so, has finally come out with his long-awaited second opus, "Confessions of a Maddog." Jay and I are old friends. He has lived out 10 lifetimes or so, such are the roles he played . High school state football champion, Lubbock, 19Maddogs and Texans Old Jay Milner of Fort Worth, who grinds out a new book every 35 years or so, has finally come out with his long-awaited second opus, "Confessions of a Maddog." Jay and I are old friends. He has lived out 10 lifetimes or so, such are the roles he played . High school state football champion, Lubbock, 1939. War hero. (He taught WACs how to swim.)College gridiron star . 9. War hero. (He taught WACs how to swim.)College gridiron star
Some of the primary works coming from this generation of writers include Brammer’s The Gay Place, Shrake’s Strange Peaches, Cartwrights’s Confessions of a Washed-up Sportswriter, Kings’s The Whorehouse Papers and None But a Blockhead , Jan Reid’s The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock, and Willie Nelson’s album Phases and Stages.. The group was comprised of Billie Lee Brammer, Edwin Bud” Shrake, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, Larry L. From the musical scene there were picker poets,” as Milner calls them, such as Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, and Waylon Jennings. King, Pete Gent, and (peripherally) Larry McMurtry and Willie Morris. Jay Milner was part of a generation of Texas writers whose heyday lasted from the late 1950s through the 1970s
He was managing editor of Hodding Carter's Greenville, Mississippi Delta Democrat-Times and went to New York as assistant to the editorial page editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Jay Dunston Milner attended high school in Lubbock where he played on a state championship football team. He returned to Texas in 1961 and fell in with a rowdy crowd of Texas prose and