Daughter of a Song: A Memoir - Sarah Curtis

\nBorn in a Dust Bowl dugout on the hard, flat plains \noutside Lubbock, Texas, Sonny Curtis picked cotton as a kid, formed a band with \nhis high school friend Buddy Holly, and opened shows for Elvis--and that was \njust by the age of twenty-two. Now at the end of his long career, Curtis is \nconsidered a rock 'n' roll trailblazer. He toured the world with the Crickets \nand with Waylon Jennings. He wrote the classic songs I Fought the Law, Love \nIs All Around (the theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show), and the country \nstandard I'm No Stranger to the Rain. Curtis has left an impression on \nAmerican myth and music that has gone heretofore undocumented. \n \nBut to the author, Sonny was a loving if cryptic \nfather as elusive as the spotlight itself. Part biography, part memoir, Daughter \nof a Song braids together an insider's perspective on an outsider's life. \nWith Sonny out on the road for long stretches, Sarah Curtis pieced his life and \nlegacy together through research and recollection, following her father from \nthe 1950s birth of rock 'n' roll in West Texas to the 1960s Hollywood scene \nwhere Sonny met his wife, a Vietnam War protester and California hippie. The \ntwo of them would leave Hollywood behind for the rural Tennessee cattle farm \nwhere they raised Sarah.\n \nWith vivid storytelling, cultural commentary, lyrical \nprose, and a dose of humor, Daughter of a Song considers the \ncomplexities of fate and fame, the cultures we shape and the ones that shape \nus. It is the story of a man saved by art, and the daughter who must navigate \nto the center of his creativity to reckon with her own.\n \n\n