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Barry Mazor

  • Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music

    May 28, 2015 | by Richard Thompson

    Ralph Sylvester Peer is recognized for his part in the July/August 1927 Bristol, Tennessee, recording sessions which introduced Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family to the world. In Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music, Barry Mazor relates the

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  • Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music

    November 3, 2014 | by John Lawless

    Students of bluegrass, country and old time music are generally agreed that the Bristol Sessions in 1927 served as the Big Bang of hillbilly music, the spark that ignited the popularity of what we now call the traditional mountain sound.

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  • Rodgers Remembrance XIV: My Blue-Eyed Jane

    May 26, 2014 | by Daniel Mullins

    On Monday, May 26th, it has been 81 years since the passing of Jimmie Rodgers. A titan of American music, Jimmie Rodgers is considered an influence in country, bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, rock, pop, Americana, and more. In six short years,

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  • Rodgers Remembrance XII: Blue Yodel No. 3

    May 22, 2014 | by Daniel Mullins

    On Monday, May 26th, it will have been 81 years since the passing of Jimmie Rodgers. A titan of American music, Jimmie Rodgers is considered an influence in country, bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, rock, pop, Americana, and more. In six

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