On his Facebook page on August 15 2014 , Barry Mazor made the following post about his upcoming new book, Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music: https://facebook/barry.mazor/posts/10152332523537717?fref=nf Bob Dylan is one of the contributors of a review for the book. Barry Mazor says Bob Dylan wrote the following: This is an overwhelming book about an overwhelming character in the music field, a true visionary, who realized the potential power of common music long before anyone else - and who transformed the lives of many of those artists whom he recorded. We owe Barry Mazor a debt of gratitude for telling Peers incredible life story, his monumental accomplishments, putting them all in one place, and bringing them to the light. - Bob Dylan === Of course, Ralph Peer was the Carter Familys manager who came up with the idea for uniting the two great names in country music with The Carter Family visits Jimmie Rodgers skit recorded on 12 June 1931 in Louisville, Kentucky, which was mimicked by Bob Dylan and Mavis Staples for their recording of Gonna Change My Way of Thinking, released on the tribute CD Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan. expectingrain/discussions/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=74035 Hear The Carter Family visits Jimmie Rodgers here: https://youtube/watch?v=RNdYoTR_dkE And Bob Dylan and Mavis Staples here: https://vimeo/35270199 Previous thread in the EDLIS Café: https://facebook/groups/edlis.cafe/permalink/653883394650196/?stream_ref=3 === Manfred Helfert has quoted Dylan on his website: bobdylanroots/country.html All the music I heard up until I left Minnesota was... I didnt hear any folk music... I just heard Country and Western, rock and roll and polka music. (Bob Dylan, New York, 1965) Plus a quote from the book, Woody Guthrie, A Life by Joe Klein: Country music was roundly ignored by the record business until the mid-1920s, and even then it was considered outside the commercial mainstream, as was race or black music. Recording executives figured... that neither blacks nor hillbillies were likely to buy large quantities of records, and few urban whites were interested in anything so alien. But radio almost killed off the record business in the mid-1920s.... Suddenly, the record companies had to become creative to survive, and they stumbled onto the idea of producing records in small quantities for limited audiences -- like blacks and hillbillies -- who werent able to hear much of their favorite music on the radio. One of the earliest to realize this was Ralph Peer, of Okeh and then Victor Records, who at first didnt care for the music as much as for the market potential.... On one of his periodic talent hunts, he held auditions in the sleepy town of Bristol on the Virginia-Tennessee border and discovered both the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers, who, between them, would transform country music from something Grandpa did on the back porch into a huge business... (Joe Klein, London, 1981, p. 57.) .
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:33:59 +0000
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