Crazy Heart, novelist Thomas Cobb’s book about a beat-up country troubadour, took 20 years to make it to the big screen. In the lead-up to the Academy Awards, where the movie version of his work is up for three Oscars, I talked with Cobb about his protagonist Bad Blake, the steady descent of country music, and how much people are willing to pay for a first-edition copy of Crazy Heart.
March 4, 2010...6:05 pm
INTERVIEW: Crazy Heart Author Thomas Cobb on His Character Bad Blake, Deer Tick, and Why Chet Atkins Killed Country
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March 5, 2010 at 2:36 pm
[...] or not, or you are just a Jeff Bridges fan or you like country music or whatever, please read this interview with Thomas Cobb in Village Voice by writer Mike Hoinski. There are many reasons to love this film [...]