Otis Lee Crenshaw

By Rich Hall

The memoir of Otis Lee Crenshaw, Rich Hall's Perrier Award-winning alter ego

'My Old Man's name was Jack Daniels Crenshaw. No surprise what he liked to drink. As a very small child I remember teething - cryin' out savagely for relief. Eventually he would appear over my crib and rub Jack Daniels on his gums until he fell asleep.'
Married six times, all to women named Brenda, Otis Lee Crenshaw's bourbon-fuelled odyssey takes him from the high mountains of East Tennessee to the bottom of the music charts. A man not above faking his own death to sell more records, this is his not quite true story of romance, recidivism, country music, and an unshakeable belief in Marriage at First Sight.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0349118191
• ISBN13: 9780349118192
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Abacus (UK)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

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bought this in an islington bookshop. I was thinking of buying a comedy, and saw the tv humourist alan davies walking around. As i don't particularly find him funny, but think his opposite number pundit (otis lee crenshaw) is, i set off to find this book. Not only is it funny it's also brilliant and insightful. The only book i've seen on a par with this for humour is 'how to be a complete bastard' by adrian edmonson, but to be fair this doesn't have the insight. Like ocsar wilde without the ego set to country and western music. After i've read it, i'll pass it onto my dad for his birthday present. Last word... quite good.

Very very funny!

This book is hilarious. I read it on my subway trips to work in SOHO each morning. People on the number 4 train kept looking at me cause I kept busting out in laughter. It's probably the funniest book I ever read.