Nashville Portraits: Legends Of Country Music

Jim McGuire has been the foremost music-industry photographer in Nashville for more than thirty years, as renowned for his love of music and musicians, wry wit, and 1947 Ford station wagon as he is for his skill with a camera. Most of the big recording stars have visited his studio: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Doc Watson, Dolly Parton, Carole King, Townes Van Zandt, John Hartford, Emmylou Harris, and Kris Kristofferson, to name just a few.
"Nashville Portraits," a landmark project, is an expanded book version of an extraordinary traveling exhibition organized by the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia. The show brings together sixty portraits; the book includes five additional photos, an essay by folklorist and historian William R. Ferris, and insightful biographies and quotations about each artist's personality, style, and contributions to the music scene. The text enhances our enjoyment of McGuire's radiant images, reproduced here in beautiful duotone.
Unlike any other book on country music, Nashville Portraits succeeds in presenting a true visual celebration of the beloved Nashville sound.

Jim McGuire's photographs have graced the covers of more than 400 albums and CDs over the past thirty years. Most of the big recording stars insist on using McGuire: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Doc Watson, Dolly Parton, Carole King, Townes Van Zandt, John Hartford, Emmylou Harris and Reba McEntire, to name a few. Sixty of his these acclaimed portraits are slated for a two-year-long traveling museum exhibit that opens in Nashville in the Fall of 2007, sponsored by the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta. This book features the photos in beautiful duotones on heavy stock paper, each with a quote from one of the Nashville musicians talking about the beauty of McGuire's work. This landmark gift book will appeal to anyone who appreciates American artistry, whether or not they love country music.