Honky Tonk Angel

The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline

De: Ellis Nassour, Dottie West - foreword

Narrado por: Tom Perkins

Patsy Cline, the beloved country singer, soared from obscurity to worldwide fame before her life tragically ended at age 30. After breaking all the barriers in the Nashville boys' club of the music business in the 1950s, she brought the Nashville sound to the nation with her torch ballads and rockabilly tunes like "Walking After Midnight," "Crazy," and "I Fall to Pieces."

Earthy, sexy, and vivacious, she has been the subject of a major movie and countless articles, and her albums are still among the top five best sellers for MCA almost 30 years after her death. In the end it is her music, a standard feature on jukeboxes from Seattle to Siberia, that prevails and keeps on keeping on.

©1993 Ellis Nassour (P)2020 Tantor

It’s amazing how much life she lived before 30

The story was very interesting and contained a lot of information that I never knew. I kept being struck by how young she was when she hit the lime light and how she seemed to be genetically predisposed to it. I was surprised that she was kinda slutty, which was fascinating to learn about

Great audiobook!

If your a fan of Patsy Cline, this book won’t disappoint. The narrator is one of the best I’ve listened to.

Patsy

I really enjoyed reading this book!! My husband & I toured the Patsy Cline museum in Nashville. It was lovely to see a lot of Patsys dresses & other memorabilia. I would recommend you visiting the museum. You will be able to see a lot of things mentioned in the book.

Everything I ever wanted to know about Patsy!

Extremely detailed account of the life of the legendary artist known as Patsy Cline! The author's extensive research is revealed with reverence.

I enjoyed all of it.

Loved the book. Have loved Patsy since I was a really small child. My late grandmother would play her and sing to me.

The real story of Patsy Cline

I enjoyed this book because it was written by and from accounts of people that actually knew her. It’s not Hollywoodized where you have to guess what’s fact and what’s fiction. Finding out what happened to all of the people in the book at the end was a great touch!

DNF

The narration was almost too folksy to the point of being a caricature. I wanted to learn about Patsy Cline and sometimes the narration got in the way.

Incredible details!

Thoroughly enjoyed this book! So many incredible details about her life & her career that were fantastic to hear. I always knew that the movie didn't do justice to her life & this book has convinced me. Loved it & would certainly recommend to anyone who is a Patsy fan or simply a fan of all the classic country music. Fun to hear their stories of travels, etc.

Patsy Cline was a badass.

I loved learning about Patsy Cline but definitely felt the tone of the book and the narration both being from the male slant made it feel misogynistic at times. The book is long winded at times and I thought passages of it could be speedier. But overall enjoyable learning her story after loving her music for so long.

Narration is so confusing...

I wished they used a certain voice for each person they're quoting. Female when quoting female, etc. Younger voice for Patsy & older voice for her mother, a different voice for Dottie West, etc. Hearing I & me at times they changed: one minute it's Patsy's Mom and the next is someone else. Very hard to follow.
Otherwise it's so nice to hear the details of Patsy Cline's life. My late Mother would've loved to have been her friend.