Yeoman's in the Fork Blog

Has anyone out there read 'A Guitar and a Pen: Stories by Country Music's Greatest Songwriters?’ This charming look inside the farther reaches of the storyteller's mind is undoubtedly one of the most under-appreciated books to come out of Nashville in years. You've got original stories (and some pretty darn good ones) by a few legends in this town - Kris Kristofferson, Tom T. Hall, Charlie Daniels, Robbie Fulks and Hal Ketchum to name a few. The book features a foreword by Vince Gill and touts endorsements from Bill Anderson and B.B. King! The book hit stores just over a year ago and never received the backing that it really needed to break through. In my opinion, a series of major flaws with production, distribution, and advertising caused the book to essentially go unnoticed by almost everyone on earth. I have just uncovered the publishers stash of these books that never went out of the warehouse for public offering and am determined to give this book a little of the credit that it deserves. Yeoman's in the Fork will soon be offering multi-signed copies of this modern Nashville classic to the world. As chance would have it, this little find was a sheer stroke of luck. I was attending the annual publisher remainder book show in Chicago last month and happened to see the samples sitting around. I was actually there in search of the Limited Edition of ‘1776’ by David McCullough (which we found and have for sale at a great price on the site already!) as well as the audio version of Robert’s book, ‘The Widow of the South.’ Right place, right time folks…

Yeoman’s is currently trying to line-up the authors and contributors to join in the fight to save a little piece of Nashville history by spreading the word that copies of ‘A Guitar and a Pen’ have been located and will soon be offered at our shop and on our website. How can you miss with a tale of a rock that looks like a naked woman from Kris Kristofferson and ‘A Big Batch of Biscuits’ by John Bolinger. By the way John, I loved this story and it most certainly takes me back to my childhood in West Tennessee. It is a sobering reminder that nothing lasts forever and to always be grateful for what cha got I guess…

CHECK OUT THESE PHOTOS OF OUR PRIVATE SIGNING WITH TWO OF THE EDITORS, ROBERT HICKS AND JUSTIN STELTER. WE WILL UPDATE YOU AS SOON AS WE MAKE THESE LITTLE COUNTRY CLASSICS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE!

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