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Tara Murtha’s search for Bobbie Gentry
The story of Bobbie Gentry has fascinated music fans for decades now. Riding a wave of fame and then, seemingly, suddenly leaving the business never to be heard from again. Well, that’s maybe an...
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Travis Stimeling’s Country Music Reader
In his new book, The Country Music Reader, Travis Stimeling takes readers through country music history using a host of primary sources as a guide. Assembling country music writing from newspapers,...
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Matt Smith-Lahrman digs into the Meat Puppets
I first got to know Matt Smith-Lahrman in a pretty one-sided relationship where he was the host of the podcast New Books in Popular Music and I was a faceless listener. After listening to his excellent...
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Alan Rifkin and the Wounds that Bind
Alan Rifkin is a veteran journalist who has written for Details and LA Weekly, among others. With his new book, Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution, Rifkin adds co-author to his...
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Gary B. Reid and the Stanley Brothers
Gary Reid’s new book The Music of the Stanley Brothers is an essential entry in the work of chronicling the history of bluegrass and its practitioners. Reid began this labor of love many years ago and...
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Michael Ward tracks down the Ghost Riders
While doing research for my Johnny Cash FAQ a couple of years ago, I was amazed to find out how little information there was out there about the origins of the song “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky,” a song...
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Eric Weisbard’s Top 40 Democracy [Part 2]
Today we continue the conversation with Eric Weibard, author of Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music. Eric Banister: I’m doing some research on Red Foley in broadcasting, and going...
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Barry Mazor Talks about Ralph Peer
In Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music (Chicago Review Press)—his much anticipated biography of the revolutionary producer and publisher, music historian Barry Mazor thoughtfully examines...
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Dennis McNally takes Highway 61
Highway 61’s place in music history has become almost mythical. In his newest book, On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom, author Dennis McNally takes a trip down the...
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Susan Masino returns to AC/DC
Susan Masino is a veteran music journalist who has written extensively on AC/DC and has returned to them for her newest book, AC/DC FAQ: All Thats Left to Know About the Worlds True Rock n Roll Band....
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