Barry Mazor

Barry Mazor
Mazor at the 2008 Pop Conference in Seattle
Mazor at the 2008 Pop Conference in Seattle
BornPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
Occupation
  • Music critic
  • author
  • journalist
Period1970—present
This article is about the music journalist. For the American mathematician, see Barry Mazur.
Mazor (right) with Doug Kershaw, AcmeRadio, Nashville 2019.

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 2016, and "Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century," which won the same award in 2010.[1] He has written regularly for the Wall Street Journal 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.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ "Belmont Hosts International Country Music Conference". Belmont University News & Media. 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
  2. ^ "Americana, by any other name..." No Depression. 2009-02-23. Archived from the original on 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
  3. ^ "Barry Mazor". No Depression. Archived from the original on 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
  4. ^ Williams, Wyatt. "An Unfinished State". Retrieved 2018-10-22.