Country music singer Charlie Rich once vowed that "no one knows what goes on behind closed doors." But now Nash provides a through-the-keyhole look at the lives of 27 country music acts, picked from interviews she has conducted with whom she sees as "almost every significant country performer of the last several decades." She skillfully probes lives and psyches with perceptive questions: "Have you always thought that you were destined to have this career?"; "What did you learn about yourself in prison?" From traditionalists to Southern rockers, from 85-year-old Roy Acuff to 25-year-old Wynonna Judd, her choice of subjects provides us with a wide range of opinion and experience in country music.
