Tamara Saviano Shares Insider’s Look At World Of Americana In New Book
Tamara Saviano
Tamara Saviano has penned a new book, Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music, which traces her journey through the rise of the world of Americana music and is out now via Texas A&M University Press.
Spanning more than three decades, Saviano gives an intimate insider’s perspective into the story of the growth of Americana, country music’s bohemian cousin, as a journalist, historian, Grammy-winning music producer, filmmaker and artist emissary. She was the first woman president of the Americana Music Association and producer of the early Americana Honors and Awards shows at the Ryman, and takes readers behind the scenes for some of the most significant moments in Americana history.
Poets and Dreamers illuminates the Americana community and its ever-expanding close-knit circle of friends and unsung heroes devoted to the success of roots music and its artists. The book features interviews with artists and colleagues and memories of special events, concerts and day-to-day life with singers, songwriters and musicians. Stories from Saviano’s close relationships with two of her most enduring clients, iconic songwriters Kris Kristofferson and Guy Clark, round out the historical work.
“My journals, a main source for this book, chronicle every minute I spent with Kris Kristofferson and Guy Clark along with all the other adventures I’ve had working in Americana music,” Saviano says. “But this is more than my story, it is the story of a scrappy group of music business misfits in the 1990s who were crazy and brave enough to build a business around a new music genre. And it worked.”
