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Notes
1. Books by Tom T. Hall:
The Acts o f Life. Fayetteville: University o f Arkansas Press, 1986.
Christmas and the Old House. Atlanta and Memphis: Peachtree Publishers, 1989.
The Laughing Man o f Woodmont Cove. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press,
1991.
The Songwriter s Handbook. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1976, 1987.
Springhill, Tennessee. 1990.
The Storyteller s Nashville. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.,
1979. (Autobiography)
What a Book. Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1996.
2. Biographical information regarding Tom T. Hall was drawn collectively from his auto
biography cited in the text (and below) as well as a variety of sources including “The
Authorized Tom T. Hall Page,”:
http:// www.cnct.com/~tomthall/bio_intro.html,TTH Enterprises, P.O. Box 1246,
Franklin, Tennessee. Included on the page is the “Tom T. Hall, Mercury-Nashville
Biography” of October 1995; Jim Cox, “Songs from Sochoppy,” No Depression, V.l,
no. 4, Summer 1996; Kurt Wolff, “Tom T. Hall, Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher,” No
Depression, V.l, no. 4, Summer 1996. Other sources utilized for materials in this
essay include: Les Bridges, “Tom T. Hall: When the Women Hiss, He Says...,” Rolling
Stone, June 21,1973, p.22; Noel Coppage, “Tom T. Hall,” Stereo Review, August 1974,
pp. 58-61; Jack Hurst, “Harper Valley Man Digs One More Grave,” The Sunday Show
case, February 23, 1969, p.5; “Lookin’ at Country with Loretta Lynn,” Newsweek,
June 18, 1973, p. 66; Robert Lorenzi,”The Hemingway of Country Music,” Country
Style, October 1979, pp.20-21: Peter McCabe, “He Finds Poetry in Ordinary Mor
tals,” New York Times, March 4,1973, II, p. 30; Lynn Van Matre, “What Sort of Picker
Reads Emily Post,” The Chicago Tribune Magazine, August 24, 1975, p. 14-32.
3. All songs are written by Tom T. Hall and published by Hallnote Publishing, and New
Keys Music. Lyrics are used with permission o f Tom T. Hall. Dates are for his songs as
they appeared in albums.