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Radio Bristol Book Club

Name: Radio Bristol Book Club
Start: 2019-11-21T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-11-21T11:30:00-05:00

11 AM

About the Show

This month our Radio Bristol Book Club explores Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music and hosts a live interview with the author, Barry Mazor.

Date: Thursday, November 21, 2019

Time: 11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. EST

Location: On the air at WBCM Radio Bristol!

Readers from Birthplace of Country Music Museum and the Bristol Public Library are coming together to explore books inspired by our region with this monthly program that airs on WBCM Radio Bristol.

Hosted by Bristol Public Library Executive Director Amy Kimani and museum Head Curator Dr. René Rodgers, the Radio Bristol Book Club airs weekly every 4th Thursday.

Book discussions will dig deep into the feelings and questions raised by each selection, learn more about the authors, and celebrate the joys of being a bookworm!

Listeners may tune in to Radio Bristol at 100.1 FM in the Bristol area, online at ListenRadioBristol.org, or download the free Radio Bristol mobile app.

About Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music

This is the first biography of Ralph Peer, the revolutionary A&R man and music publisher who pioneered the recording, marketing, and publishing of blues, jazz, country, gospel, and Latin music, and this book book tracks his role in such breakthrough events as the recording of Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues,” the first country recording sessions with Fiddlin’ John Carson, his discovery of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, the popularizing of Latin American music during World War II, and the postwar transformation of music on the airwaves that set the stage for the dominance of R&B, country, and rock ’n’ roll. Ralph Peer changed our very notions of what pop music can be.

About Barry Mazor

Barry Mazor is a longtime music, media, and business journalist. He has been writing about country and roots music for the Wall Street Journal since 2003, and is the host of weekly streaming “Roots Now” music and artist interview show on Acmeradiolive out of Nashville, He is the author of Meeting Jimmie Rodgers and Connie Smith: Just for What I Am, and the former senior editor and columnist for No Depression magazine . His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including American Songwriter, the Nashville Scene, the Village Voice, and the Washington Post. Both Meeting Jimmie Rodgers and Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music won Belmont University’s annual “Best Book on Country Music” award.