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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Gunpowder

Gunpowder

Lynne, Shelby

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral Music

Publisher Price: $28.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 26, 2028

ISBN10: 1954118279
ISBN13: 9781954118270
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: Dec 26 2028
Pages: 240
Language: English
A searing, lyrical self-portrait by the maverick Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter, a Southern Gothic story of passion, violence, and music as salvation.

Shelby Lynne Moorer grew up in south Alabama, in Frankville, not really a town, more of a zip code. Her parents were musically gifted and imparted their talent and discerning taste to Shelby and her younger sister, Allison. But they were also locked in a violent, volatile struggle. Her father's explosive rage and physical abuse, fueled by alcohol, culminated in a horrific act: in the pre-dawn hours of August,1986, Franklin Moorer came to the house where his wife had finally fled months before with the two girls in tow, shot her on the front lawn and then turned the gun on himself, while the girls were asleep in their beds. Shelby was 17; her sister just 14. Music, for Shelby, was the only way out. She'd dreamed of being a country star since she was a little girl, performing in local singing contests, harmonizing with her mother and sister in the car, speeding down the highway, studying albums and fraying videocassettes of Nancy Wilson, Quincy Jones, Dusty Springfield, Johnny Cash, and country legends.

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