Barry Mazor

thumb|Barry Mazor, 2008 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 2010. He has written regularly for the Wall Street Journal and he is a former senior editor and columnist for No Depression magazine. Quotes Celine Dion is investing primary narcissism with a voice. Quoted in Let's Talk about Love (2014) by Carl Wilson, p. 67 Back when the singing cowboy movies ruled, Hollywood hardly made a distinction between the sound of the cowboy pop balladeers and harmonizing groups and another sound entirely, born in Texas, in which Jimmie Rodgers had a formative role. Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century Mazor Barry Oxford University Press 2012 0199891869 143-144 There have been many great performers, but only four great stylists—Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, and Jerry Lee Lewis. As quoted in Meeting Jimmie Rodgers : How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century (2009) by Barry Mazor, p. 347 High stakes were fully apparent as Floyd Tillman's era-defining 'I Love You So Much It Hurts' and 'Slipping Around' became massive hits, as recorded by Floyd Tillman, by cowboy pop singer Jimmy Wakely, and by many others. Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music Mazor Barry Chicago Review Press 2014 228 External links Barry Mazor author page 1809062 n99831467 0000000071007059 13715979X cb161363331 jo2013752356 Category:Journalists from Tennessee Category:Music critics Category:Living people Category:People from Nashville