Front Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Rags to Riches -- Brenda Lee -- Hank Locklin -- Big Al Downing -- Glen Campbell -- 2 Close Encounters of the Country Kind -- Ray Campi on Ken Maynard and Walter Matthau -- Johnny Legend on Wesley Tuttle -- Deke Dickerson on Rose Maddox and Hank Thompson -- Cody Canada of Cross Canadian Ragweed on Nick Benson -- Marshall Lytle on Bill Haley -- Jack Clement and Billy Lee Riley -- Pat Boone on Red Foley -- 3 Coming Back and Coming Home -- Joe Stampley -- Freddy Weller -- Chris Hillman -- Don Williams -- Linda Gail Lewis and Kenny Lovelace on Jerry Lee Lewis -- 4 Spirituality -- Wanda Jackson -- Freddie Hart -- Richard Sterban of the Oak Ridge Boys -- Tillman Franks -- 5 The Elvis Factor -- Gordon Stoker of the Jordanaires -- Barbara Pittman -- Wanda Jackson -- Gary Bryant -- 6 Country Comedy -- T. Bubba Bechtol -- Dr. Demento -- Brent Burns -- Little Jimmy Dickens -- 7 Big Stars and an Icon -- Bobby Bare -- Mickey Gilley -- Hank Thompson -- Johnny Wright -- Kitty Wells -- 8 Redemption -- Marty Martel on Johnny Paycheck -- Freddie Hart -- Index.