Meyer Books

Once again Joyce Meyers has such a way with words. When you read this book and really listen to what she is saying your truly get a message from God. I'm going to read it again.

Be Anxious for Nothing: The Art of Casting Your Cares and Resting in God

I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to not only get closer to God, but be able to use Godly principles in their daily lives. This book, along with the accompanying Study Guide, has made a great impact in my life. I was so impressed with God's word presented by Joyce Meyer, that I bought a set for my sister and her husband. It is great to use as a daily devotional at your own pace.

I have been watching Joyce Meyer on TV for many years, but have not read any of her books until recently.

This book spoke to me "right where I am". It puts a handle on the reality of worry and anxiety.

Casting your cares on the Lord and being anxious for nothing, does not mean that you don't care about what is going on in your life. It means that you are totally dependant on God.

Thanks Joyce!

I don't usually have time to write reviews, but I felt compelled to write one for this book. This book has changed my life! I love how Joyce quotes and refers to scriptures, but also that she tells true stories and circumstances that I could ABSOLUTELY relate to! (Some I thought more referred to my husband, but...). The only 'problem' that I see with this book is that you have to be truly ready to change some things in your life, because she speaks in absolute truths. Thank God for this book! May God bless you exceedingly and abundantly (Eph. 3:20)

The book was in great condition and I received it promptly. I was very pleased.

Black Earth: A Journey through Russia After the Fall

Black Earth represents perhaps one of the best possible examples of a travel book, written in the vein of such masters as Mr Kapuscinski ( Imperium ) and D. Remnick ( Lenin's Tomb ) , where the author describes for the first time places that usually do not appear on the first pages of daily news, places somehow forgotten , but still part of modern Russia , places that the existing nomenclature has simply deleted from being, sometimes literally ( like a Chechen village of Aldy near Grozny with a heart-rending descriptions of a massacre of completely innocent people by crazed Russian 'kontraktniki ' , that shows the ongoing brutality and carnage reminiscent of the last Balkan war in Bosnia with the important difference , namely , it does not appear anywhere in media , or the town of Okha with its rows of the most dreaded Soviet-style residential blocks in the far East , where one cannot find even a single reastaurant , where the only way of survival is duck -hunting , ) sometimes one wishes that these places would never even have been built ( like Norilsk with its aboundant history of Stalinist massacres , slavery and complete economic insanity , from where there has been no escape for noone ,as the closest settlement is about 500 kms away in any direction ) ; the author shows immense knowledge of Russian history , and understanding for misery of its tragic peoples , who could have had different and better lives if there was no communism ( the plight of people he meets , destruction of nature around places he visits - e.g. Zheleznogorsk, the island of Sakhalin , economic mismanagement of the worst kind , modern plagues like aids , prostitution , drugs and emotional cruelty, all of which have been taking a horrible toll on the population , as the Russian demographic condition is one of the worst in the world with more dead than newborn); The author ends his portrayals in St Petersburg , as the former, pre-revolutionary Russian capital , which still astounds one with its preserved architecture , but is also an unofficial Russian crime capital , even exceeding Moscow itself , where couple of thousands of politicians , businessmen and journalists were gunned down in the most ingenious and brutal ways , without a single crime solved to date , all of that just part of the city 's dark spirit ; in Moscow he takes part in the gala orchestra night with all the most important new riche , generals and secret policemen included , gossiping about a price of a villa on the Spanish coast . In short : a must - read for anyone interested in the true nature of communism and its consequences today , where one must ask oneself : what has changed , if anything ,and is the cold war really over ?

This is a superb travelogue of modern Russia, and the writer has a prose style that does justice to the subject. Engaging and exciting...

The author travels all over Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. His trip to Chechnya is really eye-opening. If you're interested in Russia, I highly recommend this book.

This book recounts the author's travels throughout Russia in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Overall, I think that Meier makes a worthwhile contribution to the already substantial number of journalistic travel narratives that focus on the post-Soviet realm. The book is divided into 6 chapters: the first and last ones discuss the author's time spent in Moscow, while the other 4 trace his visits to the southern, northern, eastern, and western edges of the country. His journey to the south takes him to Chechnya, where he visits a village that was the site of a purported recent massacre of civilians. This chapter was interesting if only for the fact that there is still a dearth of Western journalists who have managed to visit and write about the region. His interviewees there include Chechen civilians, Russian military personnel, doctors, local warlords, and others. His analysis of the political dynamics was fairly neutral and evenhanded. Meier's northern journey involves a trip up the Yenisei River from Krasnoyarsk to Norilsk, which lies above the Arctic Circle. Norilsk was founded as a prison camp and today is centered on the extraction of nickel and other natural resources. Meier is mostly interested in the city's history as a part of the gulag, and he interviews numerous people who were themselves prisoners. One of the chapter's themes is the fact that many of these people elected to stay in this polluted, isolated, freezing place even after they became free, simply because they had nowhere to go. Next Meier goes to the Pacific island of Sakhalin, home to some of Russia's largest oil fields. He hauntingly describes driving through near ghost towns that have been decimated by industrial collapse, emigration, and various other societal ills that are pervasive throughout Russia. Finally, Meier has a nice chapter on St. Petersburg, looking at the city's cultural and historical role in Russia. He uses the assassination of Petersburg politician and reformist Galina Staravoitieva to make a statement on the failure of liberalism in Russia, as an ideology and social movement.

Overall, Meier writes well and often with penetrating insight. His interviewees include a colorful cast of characters from all walks of life, including ordinary Russians, pensioners, cultural and literary figures, academics, and political leaders. As is the case with any book that often jumps from topic to topic, it is uneven at times. He jumps from past to present with regularity, and his efforts to connect the two are not always successful. In addition, like many working within this genre, Meier often can't resist the temptation to indulge in abstract philosophizing, although he is definitely less guilty of this than others. In short, I would heartily recommend this book to anyone with a general interest in Russia. Meier provides an insightful, empathetic analysis of the political, social and economic transformations wrought by the collapse of communism, and the ways in which these changes have impacted ordinary Russians' lives.

Meier writes about the transition pains that Russians have and are experiencing as he travels there from 1995 to 2002. From Chechnya to Sakhalin to Norlisk, Petersburg and Moscow, Meier meets with ordinary and not so ordinary Russians to get a sense of their new post-soviet existence. His knowledge of Russian history and literature makes the book even more interesting as he commonly draws from the past and literature to explain the Russian character. This is by far one of the best accounts on contemporary Russia, a travelogue that gives the reader a real sense of not only what it means to live in Russia today but a good sense of where Russia is headed.

To the uninitiated, the art of having a dump in the woods probably seems no more complicated than "squat, squint, squeeze and squeegee"! But, alas, as the world shrinks and the use of the world's limited wilderness terrain by outdoor adventurers increases to the limit of the land's ability to withstand the stress of that use, it's just not that simple. When considerations such as ecology, weather, temperature, privacy, courtesy, hygiene, biodegradation, density of camping use in an area, terrain and so on are factored into the decision as to where and how to complete the necessary feat, all is not as simple as it would seem. The methods one should choose are as varied as the terrains one might choose to visit and the times of year in which those choices are made.

"How to Shit in the Woods" is a book that should be read by EVERY person who would choose to venture into the out of doors - whether you want to spend a weekend at the local campground or you're a hardcore toughened backwoodsman heading out into the bush for a week long solo canoe trip in Canada's northern boreal forest!

Be prepared for lots of silly toilet humour, hilarious anecdotes concerning toilet misadventures, lots of tongue-in-cheek jokes, a good number of belly laughs and a very earthy delivery to be sure - but the message ultimately is entirely serious and well worth the read! There is very little humorous when it concerns encountering the leavings of someone who trod the trail in front of you.

Highly recommended for campers of all stripes, sexes, ages and experience levels.

Ok, it's not a masterpiece of English literature. What is there to analyze here? This is like arguing the merits of Benny Hill. For 8 bucks, buy this book. It has a few practical tips about where and how to deficate in the woods (hence the title). Great. The introduction is a tears-in-your-eyes funny anecdote on that topic that is probably worth the price. Then, you have a conversation piece for your bookshelf that will be appreciated by almost everyone. And, the author goes to some length to argue that this title is NOT vulgar (the book includes a useful lexicon for the word that is also worth the price). And, you'll have something to think about the next time you take a hurried necessary behind a tree or abandon a diaper in the Wal-Mart parking lot! Enough analysis already.

A well written book about a subject that people normally don't think about till they are out in the middle of nowhere and it's too late to find a restroom that is miles away. The title may be offensive to some but, the books provides excellent information

Few experiences do more to mar the outdoorsy afternoon or the 8 day backpack trek than stepping over a log and discovering your expensive waffle-stompers are filled with the leavings of another hiker. The problem is as old as mankind. At least, it's as old as mankind after he began noticing what was between his toes.

The Bible addressed the problem, probably in the first surviving form, by demanding that people walk away from others with a spear or spade, dig a hole, and cover it. That method works well where the traffic is light. It works less well on heavily traveled forest trails.

Meyer offers 102 pages of suggestions, anecdotes and solutions for novices who want to experience the woods, don't want to create a problem, recognize it's a necessary body function and must be addressed.

I'd recommend it for everyone who plans a trip into the outdoors and isn't already familiar with how to deal with the function in a way that's not objectionable to those who follow. I'd make it required reading for those who go to the areas I'm likely to visit.

This is a serious subject, and I hoped the book would contain some good info and be a useful and light-hearted read for the inexperienced campers I often escort into the country. Sadly, the useful info in this book would barely fill a magazine article - which is where it should have been. The bulk of it is a painfully inept attempt at humour, over-complicated and pompous storytelling and self-apology. There is simply too much tedious waffle diluting the interesting stuff to make the book useful to anyone as a quick reference, and it simply isn't funny enough to warrant it's size (which, given its smallness, is saying something). At best it is mildly amusing in parts - and at worst it is a painfully protracted waste of paper. Perhaps it is intended to be used for wiping yourself after practising some of the poorly described techniques within?

Well, Jacky isn't your usual heroine. You know that right from the start of Bloody Jack. And, now she's taken to swindling swindlers, card sharping and pushing the limit of even her wide bounds on propriety. All I have to say is, "Thank heavens!" Anyone sick of simpering, sweet, self-deluded heroines need not dip into the tales of Mary "Jacky" Faber. But, those girls who have longed for a heroine who gets into some sticky situations and manages through brains and cunning and good friends, to save herself and others along the way, this is your kind of series. Mississippi Jack also gives us a look into the trials of her mostly betrothed, Jaimy. He may be an officer of the British navy, but he sometimes slips morally lower than Jacky and yet she's the one always apologizing. All in all, it's a very, very good read. Let's hope L.A. Meyer has more up his clever sleeves!

Jacky's adventures continue to get better and better. Never a dull moment when the notorious Bloody Jack is around. From stealing a river boat to ending up in the arms of another dashing military man to tar and feathers, it amazing the girl ends up in one piece at the end of the day. Jacky also manages to add to her on going repertoire of names, whether it's from mates, Indians, or lovers. Don't miss this exciting tale into the further trouble makings of Bloody Jack!

Truly this is a great read that should appeal to girls as well as boys, teens to seniors. Lovers of historical fiction will note that the perils Jacky faces were quite real to the time period; violence brought about by greed, streets paved more by treachery then gold. This time especially Meyer's has outdone himself with characters that make us cringe or perhaps laugh out loud each time they walk, or stagger, across the page. They are all there, the river men and women of the time, all races, all walks of life, all brought to us through the eyes of a teenage girl who has had to live by her wits, dreaming her dreams, while facing each day with courage and determination.

My daughter loves this series and was delighted with this recent book. It is long, but she had it read in a matter of days - couldn't put it down! Great to have a book with a girl as a pirate!

I discovered the "Bloody Jack" series through my female students, who were lining up to get a hold of them - not something I usually see as a high school English teacher. I read the series (mostly backwards) at the suggestion of the students, and loved them! "Mississippi Jack" is the last book in the series (so far) and relates Jacky Faber's adventures as a showboat captain on the Mississippi. The novel is adventuresome, fun, and honest - told from Jacky's point of view. This series is very enjoyable, easy to read (for pre-teen/teens/adults like me), and are hard to put down. I highly recommend them, especially as they've taken my students by storm.

I buy a lot of Joyce Meyer's books. She relates to us humans and their relationship to God in a real-life way. She is great. I read this book in one day. Ate it right up!

This book helped me look at myself and get on the ball to do something different. I can no longer expect different results by doing the same thing. If I want different results I must do something different. What a great book to get me inspired to do just that.

Joyce Meyers has done a great job on this book. It is very motivating and spiritual for living right and happy. I enjoy going back to reading it for motivation when you start feeling depressed, etc.

This book not only changed the way I looked at food but it changed my way of eating and opened my eyes to notice how my body reacted to food. This is an awsome book and I hope to find more books with a biblical fountain to make better choices of what I put and do not put in my body and live my life.

Joyce Meyer is one my favorite Bible Teachers. I am so glad she has addressed healthy lifestyle issues. This is a no nonsense approach to the importance if understanding why we do not take care of ourselves and why we should. Very motivating.

I buy a lot of Joyce Meyer's books. She relates to us humans and their relationship to God in a real-life way. She is great. I read this book in one day. Ate it right up!

This book helped me look at myself and get on the ball to do something different. I can no longer expect different results by doing the same thing. If I want different results I must do something different. What a great book to get me inspired to do just that.

Joyce Meyers has done a great job on this book. It is very motivating and spiritual for living right and happy. I enjoy going back to reading it for motivation when you start feeling depressed, etc.

This book not only changed the way I looked at food but it changed my way of eating and opened my eyes to notice how my body reacted to food. This is an awsome book and I hope to find more books with a biblical fountain to make better choices of what I put and do not put in my body and live my life.

Joyce Meyer is one my favorite Bible Teachers. I am so glad she has addressed healthy lifestyle issues. This is a no nonsense approach to the importance if understanding why we do not take care of ourselves and why we should. Very motivating.

I buy a lot of Joyce Meyer's books. She relates to us humans and their relationship to God in a real-life way. She is great. I read this book in one day. Ate it right up!

This book helped me look at myself and get on the ball to do something different. I can no longer expect different results by doing the same thing. If I want different results I must do something different. What a great book to get me inspired to do just that.

Joyce Meyers has done a great job on this book. It is very motivating and spiritual for living right and happy. I enjoy going back to reading it for motivation when you start feeling depressed, etc.

This book not only changed the way I looked at food but it changed my way of eating and opened my eyes to notice how my body reacted to food. This is an awsome book and I hope to find more books with a biblical fountain to make better choices of what I put and do not put in my body and live my life.

Joyce Meyer is one my favorite Bible Teachers. I am so glad she has addressed healthy lifestyle issues. This is a no nonsense approach to the importance if understanding why we do not take care of ourselves and why we should. Very motivating.

I must admit that I have not been the biggest fan of Mark Rothko, but after reading this book and seeing the quality plates, I am very much a fan of Rothko. Now, when I go to museums, I am very interested in seeing his work and studying his color, edges, paint handling and spirit. This book is worth owning.

I saw the original show that went with this book. While the book cannot do justice to the works one can still appreciate the greatness of Rothko by reading/viewing it.

I recently bought this book, and I want to comment on the discussion regarding the color - the color is NOT great, and it does NOT show Rothko's work in its best light. Anyone who says differently should get their eyes checked. That being said, other than that it seems to be a very nice book, and I'll still be glad to have it in my library. I just need another book for better color reference.

It was nice to see the transition that Rothko made throughout the years from complex modern art (ala Picasso and Dali) to more simplistic yet rich in colors.

This is the catalogue for a beautiful exhibition that was held at the Beyeler Foundation. Many of the works reproduced are hidden in private collections (e.g. a huge 1958 canvas in black, white and red) and it is great to be able to admire them. Nothing replaces the live experience of being engulfed in a Rothko, standing a short distance from the canvas itself, but this book is undoubtedly a valuable addition in any art library.

Wow, when I first started to read this book I had no idea what it was about at all. I am glad I read it though. It is a tale of a poor young lad going out to sea for adventure, only to have the most nightmarish and strange tragedies befall him in rapid succession.

It starts out innocent enough, but soon the vivid descriptions of the wild situations that take place draw you into the book. Even though some of the events happening would make any normal man wish for death. However Poe does a good job balancing the dramatic storytelling without overdoing it.

Poe only wrote one novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. The novel is a series of amazing adventures that happen to the young Pym. Pym hides in a casket-like box in a ship, along with a rotten ham and several bottles of liquor and a cask of wine. While trapped under the deck, Pym finds that his dog has also joined him in his misadventure. The book takes you through Pym's experiences of being trapped under deck without food or water. He also experiences a mutiny where a faction of the crew take over the ship and kill many of the other crew members before putting the captain and a few honest sailors into a small boat with now paddles or compass. Pym, his friend the Captain's son, and a super strong sailor who participated in the mutiny stick together for survival sake, especially around the African blood thirsty cook who beheads other sailors. The sailor who mentors Pym is half black and half white, which Poe calls a 'hybrid'. They undergo a range of adventures with a death ship full of corpses, and storms so violent that the ship is reduced to ruins. They are reduced to cannibalism and draw straws to determine who will be dinner. They find and eat a dead polar bear. They pass many icebergs until the water becomes warm and tropical as they get near Antarctica. They find a tropical island full of black men who become very treacherous to our heroes. They escape the island and get caught in a giant whirlpool that is going into the center of the earth, where they see a gigantic white glowing figure. Then Poe pulls a fast one on us and tells us that the final 3 chapters of Pym's narrative have been lost and unfortunately young Pym has recently died.

What do we make of this crazy tale? This novel influenced Borges, Melville, and Jules Verne. Yet it is an odd novel, with an abrupt and truncated ending. In some ways it is a series of short stories strung together, each short story meant to give impressions of horror and adventure. Yet, I could not get over a distinct impression that Poe had written himself into a corner with no escape (after all what can possibly come after going into the center of the earth on a whirlpool at the south pole and seeing God or a giant angel?) and thus he wraps up the story in a very untidy manner.

At times, Poe's descriptions of horror are extremely beautiful and masterly. The ghost ship description is especially well done. At other times he develops a careful plot of intrigue and betrayal. The sections about the tribe of black men is very well constructed. At other times he is very abrupt and shocking, such as the immediate stabbing death of the poor man who was sacrificed so that the others could eat him and survive.

This brings up the topic as to whether a good novel must tie up all lose ends for the reader in a tidy plot resolution package? If this is what you seek in a novel, Arthur Gordon Pym is not the book for you. However if you are willing to go on an awkward journey with a skilled but uneven writer,then you will enjoy this unique novel.

Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is one of the most relevant and significant novels of Poe. His passionate literary style, told in first person, tells us about the hidden incursion of Arthur in a boat that will make a tour through the east coasts of South America.

The prodigious imagination and febrile mood, make of it an issue of invaluable and beating actuality.

The white color will impregnate the work as another invisible actor. And its final is still one of the most sublime and admired ever written.

Suspense and horror pervade Poe's full-length story of entombment, mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism, and more--a veritable catalog of all the human fears and foibles that Poe depicts in his more widely read tales of mystery and imagination.

The novel opens with a prefatory episode, in which Pym describes a truly harrowing night at sea when he and his best friend Augustus, after having far too much to drink, went sailing during a storm. Instead of curing Pym of his wanderlust, the experience and Augustus's anecdotes about sea life fill his head with abnormally romantic visions of "shipwreck and famine; of captivity among barbarian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some grey and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable and unknown." It's an accurate summary of what ensues, and although it may sound a lot like Defoe, Poe livens things up with his own special brand of horror.

After this preview, the rest of the novel feels like two main stories patched together around a central character. In the first adventure, Pym stows away on the ship owned by Augustus's father and emerges to discover that there has been a mutiny. The second half imagines a sort of "lost horizon" in the midst of Antarctica; instead of ice, there are temperate islands populated by devilishly affectionate natives.

It's rip-roaring fun, and it slows down only in between, when Pym travels through the Galapagos Islands on the way to the South Pole. These chapters, paraphrased and plagiarized rather shamelessly from contemporary travel accounts, abound in longitudinal measurements (a map will come in handy) and summaries of previous real-life explorations of the South Seas. The interlude as a whole is remarkably similar to Poe's unfinished (and languid) novel, "The Journal of Julius Rodman," published two years later, which also purports to be an account of unexplored territory--in this case, the Rocky Mountains. The fact that Poe had never been to either location doesn't help his fiction.

But don't let these skimmable chapters put you off. Readers who enjoy such classics as "Robinson Crusoe" or "Treasure Island" will find "Arthur Gordon Pym" a thrilling contribution to the adventure genre. It is also one of his more accessible works for young readers, often resembling a yarn of the high seas, without the ponderous metaphysics that bog down some of Poe's shorter pieces of fiction. And fans of science fiction, fantasy, and horror will be interested in the novel's obvious influence on later writers such as Jules Verne (who even wrote a largely forgotten sequel, "The Sphinx of the Ice Fields") and, of course, H. P. Lovecraft (most notably his story "At the Mountains of Madness").

Claiming that this is the true narrative of a sea voyage by Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allen Poe records the strange, unbelievable events aboard the ship Grampus in 1827 and on a voyage of discovery to the Antarctic six months later. Published in 1838, Poe's fictionalized narrative, supposedly penned by Pym, a young man from Nantucket, describes Pym's experiences beginning in July, 1827. Stowed away in the hold of the ship and aided by his friend Augustus Barnard, whose father is captain of the Grampus, Pym endures more than a week alone and in almost total darkness before he discovers that a mutiny has occurred onboard.

Macabre details of ghastly deaths and unrelieved bloodlust, the massacre of the crew, and the casting adrift of the captain presage even more gory events. A countermutiny, equally bloody, leaves only four men alive on the Grampus. A gale, a gruesome death ship which passes them, circling sharks, and additional deaths leave only two men alive when the brig capsizes.

The second half of the account details the trip of discovery taken by Pym and the other survivor, along with an English crew from a passing ship, south to the "Antarctic Sea," a voyage in which they go "more than eight degrees farther south than any previous navigators." On this journey they encounter a monstrous "Arctic bear," more than 15 feet long, a cat-like animal with red teeth and claws, warm water with Galapagos tortoises, a series of islands inhabited by canoe-paddling natives, the Aurora Borealis, hot and milky water, white ashy showers, and a huge human figure in white, not the sights reported by later Antarctic explorers.

Poe's only novel, in the romantic tradition of sea adventures, presages the publication of Melville's Typee, which is a true story. In this case, Poe plays with the reader's sense of reality, claiming that his fictional narrative is true and that the fictional Pym had "refused" to publish it because he thought no one would believe his tale. Ironies abound, matched only by the romantic embellishments and imaginative "discoveries" in Antarctica that make this fast-paced narrative as full of tense drama as any soap opera. The abrupt "conclusion" remains ironically inconclusive. Breathless excitement and near death experiences, combined with mystical visions and inexplicable events, make this exciting narrative fun to read. Mary Whipple

I've read many biographies of rock personalities and other famous people. This one is better than most. It provides a balanced viewpoint with input from varying sources. A good read for Gram Parsons fans.

A superb book on Gram Parsons. It probes the genius and vulnerability of this great talent. I, for one appreciate the authors in-depth telling of this man's life. One can only imagine the even greater impact he would have had on the music world had his life not been cut so drastically short. It is a true loss for everyone.

This book starts REALLY slowly!!! It digs really deeply into Gram's family ..... generations before he's born. I'm sure the stories about his well-to-do family was meant to add background to his own messed-up personality. But it was really boring. The book picks up when Gram finally gets out and starts making music.

This is an amazing book for anyone who is interested in music from the 50s - 70s.
While reading I suggest you listen to the music discussed to truly appreciate the details and evolution of Gram's contribution to American music. enjoy!

I've already read the Ben Fong-Torres bio, as well as the Sid Griffin bio.....now, while I am not a Gram-o-phile, I am most definitely a Nez-head. And based on the countless errors I am reading about Mike Nesmith, I wonder just how much research went into this book?

1) "Nesmith...the iconic Monkee, the one who could actually play his instrument." Never mind that Peter Tork was a clasically trained pianist, French horn player and FAR better guitarist than Nesmith...

2) Red Rhodes was "a regular contributor to ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith's country-rock First National Band." Hmmm...seems he ought to have been *in* the band with all of those contributions....oh wait....he was.

3) David Barry "played piano on Michael Nesmith's Country Time Records recordings." They served a lot of lemonade during those sessions, apparently. It was Countryside Records.

4) Red Rhodes "played on Elvis Presley's records." Let's name them:

5)Red Rhodes was the CMA's "Steel Guitar Player of the Year from 1965 through 1968." Close...but Red did not win in 1966. Ralph Mooney and Tom Brumley shared the award that year.

That many omissions on some sidebars to the main story make me wonder how many omissions are in the main story itself.