Barry Mazor
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 Mazor at the 2008 Pop Conference in Seattle | |
| Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Period | 1970—present |
Barry Mazor is a music journalist and the author of Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music, winner of Belmont University's Best Book on Country Music award in 2016, and "Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century," which won the same award in 2010.[1] He has written regularly for the Wall Street Journal and he is a former senior editor and columnist for No Depression magazine. He was the host of the streaming radio show "Roots Now," on Nashville's AcmeRadioLive.[2][3][4]
Writing
[edit]In addition to the Wall Street Journal and No Depression, his writing has appeared in Crawdaddy, the Oxford American, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, Nashville Scene, American Songwriter, The New Republic, and the Journal of Country Music.[5][6] He was awarded the Charlie Lamb Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism in 2008.[7] He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
- Bibliography
- Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music, 2014, ISBN 9781613736531
- Connie Smith: Just for What I Am, 2012, ISBN 9783899166385
- Meeting Jimmie Rodgers, 2009, ISBN 0199891869
- Connie Smith: Latest Shade of Blue, 2021″
- Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story." Due 2025 Hachette Books.
References
[edit]- ^ "Belmont Hosts International Country Music Conference". Belmont University News & Media. 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
- ^ "Americana, by any other name..." No Depression. 2009-02-23. Archived from the original on 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
- ^ "Barry Mazor". No Depression. Archived from the original on 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
- ^ Williams, Wyatt. "An Unfinished State". Retrieved 2018-10-22.
- ^ "Read Our Issues Online". www.oxfordamerican.org. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
- ^ "Music Journalist Barry Mazor to Speak at the MTSU Center for Popular Music on January 26th". Retrieved 2018-10-22.
- ^ "Barry Mazor lecture examined Ralph Peer music influence". The Leading Edge. 2015-01-24. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
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