For the past month, my eyes have been glued to a couple of exceptional books; one old, one new. Barry Mazor’s Ralph Peer and The Making of Popular Roots Music was published this past year, and the other was released […]
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Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music by Barry Mazor (Chicago Review Press, 2014, 340 Pages, $13.49/28.96) is a must-read for anyone interested in the development and popularization of roots music, not only from the US but from Latin […]
In the beginning, it was all country. The truth and the myth came together on the front porches and parlors as well as at the small village churches, stores with cracker barrels, corner bars, and honky-tonks … all the places […]
Imagine my delight during a recent U.S visit to be given a complete set of trading cards dedicated to the “Pioneers of Country Music”. Then add the joy of discovering that they were drawn by the great counter-culture illustrator R. Crumb. First, the […]
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