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Nonfiction Heart and soul and guts WHISPERIN’ BILL ANDERSON: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music By Bill Anderson and Peter Cooper 298 pp. The University of Georgia Press Reviewed by Diane Diekman Bill Anderson, 79, is the only songwriter in history who has written songs that charted in seven consecutive decades. From “City Lights” by Ray Price in 1958 to “Country” by Mo Pitney in 2015, his music continues to thrive. With the help of renowned country music historian Peter Cooper. he tells the story of his music and its place in his life. Anderson was 19 and beginning his music career at a small radio station when a stifling hot August night drove him out of his hotel room and up to the roof with his guitar. “This particular night there wasn’t a cloud in the sky,” he writes.  I began looking up at what seemed like a million stars above and down on what few lights there were in Commerce, Georgia, and I wrote:   ‘The bright array of city lights, as far as I can see / The great...