Country music icon Clint Black has joined the ranks of personalities who wrote their memoirs. Jelly Roll's wife, Bunnie Xo, came out with hers a few months ago. Kenny Chesney recently did likewise. It's a big job to write about yourself candidly and honestly. You have to include the thrilling ups and the disheartening downs. Nevertheless, Black decided to go for it anyway.
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His book, Killin' Time, explores the superstar's life and career. He shared with Country Now that he "never thought I could write a book." However, with the gentle urging of his wife, Lisa Hartman Black, he finally made the effort to put pen to paper. Black also wanted his daughter, Lily Pearl, now in her 20s, to have something to read and cherish about her beloved dad.
Black's Early Career Was Challenging
He was no overnight success. But he kept plugging away, despite rejections and low points. It was hard, yet Clint Black was persistent. If he wanted to make it in the entertainment field, he knew it would take plenty of commitment and fortitude.
Black shared with the outlet, "I realized that growing up with three older brothers, trying to keep up with them, doing the door-to-door salesman thing for four years, selling newspaper subscriptions, being rejected 99.9% of the time, that really set me up and gave me that fight to keep from drowning that you read about in the beginning, it set me up for all those years in the bars where I was not succeeding, but I was on route. I was on my way there. I just didn't know how close or how far away it was."
He Didn't Let Himself "Lose Hope"
Black, 64, a New Jersey native, did not succumb to despair. Instead, he merely re-examined his strategy. Maybe he needed to try a new approach. No matter what happened, though, he always hung in there.
The singer said per the outlet, "When you're in that place, it's easy to lose hope and become discouraged and give up. I was never even close to that, but I was questioning my tactics. I was questioning how I was going about it, what kind of job I have. This job singing doesn't allow for time and energy or money to go and make demos. And so I went through a lot of that."
