Mandrell

I was country, when country wasn’t cool” That said, Barbara Mandrell is a Texan, so while she used the word “Coke,” she could have very well been singing about putting peanuts in her Dr Pepper.

Archive 2008-06-01 Homesick Texan 2008

I was country, when country wasn’t cool” That said, Barbara Mandrell is a Texan, so while she used the word “Coke,” she could have very well been singing about putting peanuts in her Dr Pepper.

Dr Pepper and peanuts | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

On my first visit, in the early 1980s, I visited Barbara Mandrell Country (it included a recreation of her bedroom, with Saltines on the nightstand because "You Can Eat Crackers in My Bed Any Time"); Twitty City ( "I think I saw him looking out the window," our guide said, and cameras clicked madly); and the Country Music Wax Museum, where I saw some terrible things.

Sophia Dembling: Tourists Traps: You Win Some, You Lose Some Sophia Dembling 2010

On my first visit, in the early 1980s, I visited Barbara Mandrell Country (it included a recreation of her bedroom, with Saltines on the nightstand because "You Can Eat Crackers in My Bed Any Time"); Twitty City ( "I think I saw him looking out the window," our guide said, and cameras clicked madly); and the Country Music Wax Museum, where I saw some terrible things.

Sophia Dembling: Tourists Traps: You Win Some, You Lose Some Sophia Dembling 2010

Jones's 1983 rendition of "I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today," recorded with Barbara Mandrell, won a Grammy Award for the best soul gospel performance by a duo or group.

The Gospel according to Bobby Jones DeNeen L. Brown 2010

I've mentioned the bracing mix of British manners and American sensibilities in Frank McAuliffe's books about Augustus Mandrell.

Archive 2010-04-01 Peter Rozovsky 2010

I raved about the first three Mandrell books in the early days of this blog, and I'm pleased that the opening of Shoot the President ... lives up to one of my early remarks, namely that: I'd assumed from Mandrell the narrator's cheeky tone and Mandrell the character's cool demeanor that Frank McAuliffe was British. ...

Archive 2010-04-01 Peter Rozovsky 2010

I have learned that Vimal is an elusive thief and a master of disguise, a kind of Punjabi mix of Richard Stark's Parker and Frank McAuliffe's Augustus Mandrell.

विमल, or meet Vimal, India's pulp hero Peter Rozovsky 2010

Like Barbara Mandrell, "I was country when country wasn't cool!"

On Dear Days Gone By 2008

And here's part of my answer to a challenging comment on my post about Modesty Blaise and Frank McAuliffe's Augustus Mandrell: What makes her a hero a reader can identify with?

R.I.P. Peter O'Donnell, the man behind Modesty Blaise Peter Rozovsky 2010