Green Hills Read the Book Before You Meet Her at the Signing

Tamara Saviano has spent a career shaping Americana music from the inside — in radio, as a publicist whose clients included Kris Kristofferson, and as the first woman to serve as president of the Americana Music Association. Now she has put that vantage point on the page with "Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music," a memoir from someone who has produced as much as she has chronicled. For a genre this town helped build, the account carries particular weight here.

With reporting from Nashville Banner.