In his posthumously published memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street (2006), folk musician Dave Van Ronk reflects acerbically on where he and his contemporaries in the Greenwich Village folk revival of ...

Ralph Peer was born in 1892 (1892-1960) in Independence, Missouri, son of a furniture dealer. Surrounded by the cabinet-sized radios and record players in his father's store, Peer fell in love with ...

The publishing trade organization has announced the election of Ralph Peer II and Golnar Khosrowshahi to become its new board chair and vice chair. By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer The National Music ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peermusic’s Ralph Peer II is handing the reins of the independent music publishing company he’s run for 37 years to his daughter ...

Today, June 19th, Ralph Peer, II, Chairman and CEO of peermusic, will become the first publisher to receive awards from the two largest music publishers groups in the US: the National Music Publishers ...

Barry Mazor is a noted music journalist, who had previously written biographies on such luminary artists as Jimmie Rodgers and Connie Smith before writing his most recent book, “Ralph Peer and the ...

Barry Mazor's Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music traces the life and career of Ralph Peer, who rose from Kansas City phonograph salesman to one of history's most influential A&R scouts, ...

Country music’s place as a permanent fixture of American life and culture is a direct result of the Bristol Sessions. Over 12 days between July 25 and Aug. 5, 1927, in Bristol — a city on the border ...

Do you love Bruce Springsteen? B.B. King? Garth Brooks? Ruben Blades? No doubt you answered yes to at least one of those, but it’s quite likely you do not know the name of the visionary ...