Nashville's Songwriting Sweethearts Volume 6: The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story (American Popular Music Series)

You might not know the names of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, but you know their music.Arriving in Nashville in 1950, the songwriting duo became the first full-time independent songwriters in that musical city.In the course of their long careers, they created classic hits that pushed the boundaries of country music into the realms of pop and rock.Songs like “Bye Bye Love,” “All I Have to Do Is Dream,” “Love Hurts,” and “Rocky Top” inspired young musicians everywhere.Here, for the first time, is a complete biography of Nashville’s power songwriting couple. In Nashville’s Songwriting Sweethearts, authors Bobbie Malone and Bill C.Malone recount how Boudleaux and Felice, married in 1945, began their partnership as itinerant musicians living in a trailer home and writing their first songs together.In Nashville the couple had to deal with racism, classism, and in Felice’s case, sexism.Yet through hard work and business acumen-and a dose of good luck-they overcame these obstacles and rose to n