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Index
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: First Things First
Chapter 2: School Days and the Real World
Chapter 3: That’s a Big Ol’ World Out There
Chapter 4: Three Chords that Changed My Life
Chapter 5: Finishing Up and Starting Over
Chapter 6: Another Move, and This One Hurt
Chapter 7: Paying Dues on the Installment Plan
Chapter 8: Sometimes Fate Just Walks Right through the Door
Chapter 9: Blast from the Past
Chapter 10: Midnight Madness and Wild Oats
Chapter 11: Burned Fingers and Burned Bridges
Chapter 12: New Beginnings or Last Stand
Chapter 13: Just a Stop Along the Way
Chapter 14: Tonight I Met the Girl of My Dreams, for Real
Chapter 15: The Show Not Only Must but Will Go On
Chapter 16: Happiness Comes in Swaddling Clothes
Chapter 17: Oh the Joys of Living the Honkytonk Life
Chapter 18: Music City, Here I Come
Chapter 19: Opportunity Knock, Knock, Knocking on My Front Door
Chapter 20: The View from the Other Side of the Control Room Window
Chapter 21: Bird on a Wire
Chapter 22: Youngblood and New Ground
Chapter 23: What Goes Around Comes Around
Chapter 24: Gearing Up for the Long Run
Chapter 25: A Long Road and a Little Wheel
Chapter 26: Red Hot Chicken and the Advent of the Volunteer Jam
Chapter 27: Always Works Out for the Best
Chapter 28: Demise of the Uneasy Rider: New Rides
Chapter 29: Decisions, Decisions
Chapter 30: It Was October in St. Louis Town When We Heard that the Free Bird Had Fell to the Ground
Chapter 31: A Million Miles, A New Face, and the Devil Went Down to Georgia
Chapter 32: Urban Cowboy
Chapter 33: Big Show, Big Crowds, Big Crew
Chapter 34: Broken Arms and Grammys
Chapter 35: Just a Hill with Some Tall Trees Where a Creek Comes Bubbling By
Chapter 36: You Never Did Think that It Ever Would Happen Again
Chapter 37: Talk to Me Fiddle, Tell Me About the Time When You Came Across the Sea
Chapter 38: Cardboard Critics
Chapter 39: High Lonesome, Our Little Piece of Tennessee
Chapter 40: Heart of My Heart, Rock of My Soul, You Changed My Life When You Took Control
Chapter 41: Many, Many Years Ago God Came to Abraham, He Said I’ve Chosen You to Carry Out My Plan
Chapter 42: Falling Down and Getting Up and Digging Out
Chapter 43: Homesick Heroes
Chapter 44: Next of Kin and Simple Men
Chapter 45: The Door
Chapter 46: Saying Goodbye to Momma
Chapter 47: Changes Going and Coming
Chapter 48: I Ain’t Nothing but a Simple Man, They Call Me a Redneck, I Reckon that I Am
Chapter 49: There’s a New Train Coming, Get On Board or Just Keep Walking
Chapter 50: The Cowards Came by Morning and Attacked Without a Warning, Leaving Flames and Death and Chaos in Our Streets
Chapter 51: A Friend Who Affected My Life
Chapter 52: Close Call in the Rockies
Chapter 53: Ain’t It Good to Be Alive and Be in Tennessee
Chapter 54: This Is a Righteous Cause, So Without Doubt or Pause I Will Do What My Country Asks of Me
Chapter 55: A Heart’s Desire Answered on the Stage of the Ryman Auditorium
Chapter 56: Ain’t No Fool Like an Old Fool
Chapter 57: And the Lonesome Boy from Dixie Made It Home
Chapter 58: The Way I See It
Chapter 59: Another Blip on the Screen
Chapter 60: There Are Some Things in This World You Just Can’t Explain
Chapter 61: I’ll Always Remember that Song
Chapter 62: We’ve Traveled Our Highways and Toasted Our Times in Rotgut Whiskey and Fine French Wines, Old Friend We’ve Been a Mile or Two Together
Chapter 63: Icing on a Very Special Cake
Acknowledgments
Notes
Photos
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