Tamara Saviano
Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music
Revealed by Texas A&M College Press
Aug 15, 2025
Tamara Saviano has spent her life working in music and with musicians. She was the primary girl president of the Americana Music Affiliation and produced the early Americana Honors and Awards reveals at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, and he or she most notably labored with and helped information the careers of Kris Kristofferson and Man Clark, together with producing tribute albums to each artists in addition to ones to Jackson Browne and Stephen Foster. Her 2016 e-book, With out Getting Killed or Caught, is the definitive biography of Man Clark.
Poets and Dreamers is Saviano’s personal story. But it surely some ways additionally it is the story of the resurgence of Americana music within the ’90s and its blossoming as its personal style impartial of the nation mainstream within the 2000s. After an informative prologue that places the rise of Americana, typically known as alt-country, into historic perspective, aligning it with the outlaw nation motion that preceded it, Saviano particulars her story by means of the music world. Beginning in radio and journalism, working for a significant nation label in addition to Nation Weekly journal, Saviano traces her eventual alignment with much less conventional nation acts and her work with Kristofferson and Clark, amongst others. She chronicles the initiatives and tribute albums she helmed.
Most affectingly, nonetheless, is how Saviano discusses her relationships with Kristofferson and Clark. She labored carefully with them for the latter components of their careers, up till their passing, and as such grew to become shut private associates of each. Her relationships with these legends come throughout in prose that’s rife with anecdotes and heat with remembrance. It’s in some senses the crux of her story. And as such renders palpable the guts and soul of the Americana music she labored in for many years. (www.tamupress.com)
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