Night Songs

Night Songs

Author: Alli Dyer Listening Length: 13h 8m
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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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In early August that summer, Micah and I went to Martha’s for the first time. She lived across the river on the east side of Nashville, where long-haired tattooed locals walked amongst historic homes and the neon pulsed at a lower volume.

Inside Martha’s modest bungalow, musicians of different ages sprawled across couches and hunched on the floor, smoking and drinking from jelly jars.

Candles burned on every surface, illuminating shelves of records lining the walls as Judee Sill’s “Down Where the Valleys Are Low” spun on the turntable.

Micah raised his eyebrows at me, clearly impressed, and I raised mine in response. I felt like we’d just entered the real Nashville, and everything up until this point had only been a performance.