Gary Stewart: I Am From The Honky-Tonks

Name: Gary Stewart: I Am From The Honky-Tonks
Start: 2026-04-22T19:30:00.000Z
End: 2026-04-22T22:30:00.000Z
Location: The GRAMMY Museum

A Conversation with Author Jimmy McDonough Moderated by Comedian/Actor Patton Oswalt With Performances from Jonathan Wilson & Greg Leisz The Grammy Museum is thrilled to celebrate the music of Gary Stewart in the Museum's intimate 200-seat Clive Davis Theater. The program will include a conversation with moderated by Patton Oswalt author Jimmy McDonough, who will be discussing his new biography, Gary Stewart: I Am From The Honky Tonks, his career as a biographer and the process behind writing the book. This will be followed by a very special performance of Gary Stewart songs by Grammy-nominated, singer-songwriter and producer Jonathan Wilson (Margo Price, Kesha, Father John Misty), accompanied by veteran steel guitar player Greg Leisz, who played with Stewart. An epic tale of sex, drugs, and country music almost 40 years in the making, Gary Stewart: I Am From the Honky-Tonks is the eighth and final biography by Jimmy McDonough (Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography, Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen), America’s greatest chronicler of popular culture. An unsung hero of 20th century American music, Gary Stewart is regarded as one of the most talented singers, songwriters, and vocalists of his generation. In the mid-1970s, crazed hits like "She’s Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)" and "Drinkin' Thing" rocketed Stewart up the charts and earned him the admiration of Bob Dylan, The Allman Brothers, Tanya Tucker, and more. Within a few years, he had flamed out and all-but-vanished from the music scene. Until Jimmy McDonough barged his way into the spooky, Florida doublewide Stewart was hiding out in, beginning a four-decade obsession with the elusive musician. Utilizing the unique combination of oral history, vivid prose, and personal experience that made McDonough’s Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography a bestseller, Gary Stewart: I Am From The Honky-Tonks follows a feral Kentucky family who surfed success and rear-ended disaster in drug-soaked, 1970s Florida. At its core is