Fall and Redemption: The Essence of Country Music

Submitted as a graduate student's Master Degree
thesis, Fall and Redemption is the story of a man's
journey of recovery from drug use, and how playing
country music helped him through it. The
student/addict moved to his home town
to come clean. His solaces were 12 step meetings,
solitude, and his father's first electric guitar, an
old 1956 Silvertone Honky Tonk player that his
father used to play in a Honky Tonk band in the
1950's. The graduate student's discovery of the
music, combined with familial and historical
research of the music led to a personal discovery of
the strength of country music and its generational
purpose of expressing through song the human
condition. The music became a mode of expression,
and a deliverence from the demons he faced in
looking at the emotional, mental, spiritual, and
physical damage caused by his habitual drug use. As
a reader, you will be taken through this man's
journey as he discovers the naked truth of the
bridges burned from the ravages of drug use (the
Fall), his facing his demons through taking
responsibility for his life (the Redemption),
and how the music helped him through it.