Barry Mazor is the author of "Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story." His book ''Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music'' was winner of Belmont University's Best Book on Country Music award in 2016, and his "Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century" won the same award in 2010. He has written regularly for the

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since 2003, 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.

Writing

In addition to the Wall Street Journal and No Depression, his writing has appeared in Crawdaddy,

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, The New Republic, and the Journal of Country Music. He was awarded the Charlie Lamb Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism in 2008. He lives in

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. * Bibliography *''Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music'', 2015, *''Connie Smith: Just for What I Am'', 2012, *''Meeting Jimmie Rodgers'', 2009, *''Connie Smith: Latest Shade of Blue, 2021''″ *''Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story.''" Due July 2025 Da Capo Books.

References

External links

Barry Mazor author page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mazor, Barry Living people Writers from Nashville, Tennessee American music historians American male non-fiction writers American music journalists Year of birth missing (living people) Folk music historians