Mazor, Barry (2012), Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century pages: 143-144, publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0199891869
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"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."
— Barry Mazor
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About Barry Mazor
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.
About Barry Mazor
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.
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