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Bobby Braddock, one of the most successful country songwriters of all time, is a living legend. His smash hit "He Stopped Loving Her Today" won the Country Music Association's Song of the Year Award in two consecutive years and was voted "Song of the Century" in a poll conducted by Radio &amp; Records magazine and "greatest country song of all time" in a poll conducted by the BBC. In this captivating narrative, Braddock demonstrates that he is as much at home writing the story of his life as crafting an award-winning country tune. Warm, candid, intimate, and laugh-out-loud funny, Down in Orburndale-the title plays on the Southern pronunciation of Braddock's hometown of Auburndale, Florida-recounts his colorful saga up to age twenty-four, when he decides to move to Nashville and pursue a career as a professional songwriter. <p>Braddock retains enormous affection for his Florida upbringing, back in the mid-twentieth century when "Florida was still Southern," oranges were more essential than tourists to the state's economy, and every small town seemed to be populated with actual eccentric characters right out of a Southern novel-like Bobby's father, twenty-four years older than his mo

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Author

Braddock, Bobby

Publisher

Louisiana State University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807132227

Category

music

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Biography

Rating

4.13 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13