Night Songs

Night Songs

Author: Alli Dyer Listening Length: 13h 8m

In this haunting family saga, a young woman must delve into her country star mother’s music to break a curse that has plagued the women in her family for generations—before her time runs out. On the morning of Rhea’s eighteenth birthday, she makes a shocking discovery—her mother was the famed singer of some of coun...

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FIFTEEN YEARS LEFT

It was the Fourth of July, and we were in some backwater corner of Mississippi.

That night, Clayton had invited me onstage to sing a duet with him, and the crowd had loved it. He didn’t curl his voice around mine like Hess did. He sang ahead, and the sound demanded I follow.

When the show had ended, the whole touring crew had herded from the grounds to a local park for a cookout with the rest of the town. The charcoal smoke hung heavy in the humid air, wrapping us in its primal smell.