Tamara Saviano (center) poses with Guy Clark (left) and Kris Kristofferson (right). Both songwriters were her primary clients as she built a career in Americana music.
Americana often becomes a place for artists or music industry types who don’t fit neatly elsewhere. And for Tamara Saviano, it was a place for a writer and publicist who was shunned by country music. Saviano moved to Nashville and quickly found herself crossways with industry heavyweights. A fateful firing over politics led to a phone call from actor and singer/songwriter Kris Kristofferson, and the rest is a history that’s in her new memoir, “Poets and Dreamers.”
Produced by Blake Farmer
More on Tamara Saviano:
- NPR: Tamara Saviano on Guy Clark lost recordings
- WMOT: A warm account of the Americana movement
- Nashville Post (2003): Everything you ever wanted to know about the Charlie Daniels/Saviano dispute
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