Pickin' on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia (Music in American Life)

Synopsis

Atlanta played a major role in launching the country music industry in the early 1920s and remained one of the nation’s leading country music centers for four decades. Also a major recording center for twenty years, the city was visited regularly by representatives of New York record companies who traveled south to scout for singers and musicians. During the 1950s, Atlanta’s television stations drew on the talent that had entertained in the area for years to assemble long-running, popular country music shows. Using fresh and fascinating information gleaned from newspaper archives, personal interviews, and other sources, Wayne W. Daniel takes readers from early fiddling conventions through the beginnings of the country music industry, to the early days of country programming on radio, and on through Atlanta’s importance as a regional recording center. He includes an analysis of the role television has played from the 1950s to the present. “If there are still people around who think country music moved right out of the hills directly to Nashville, Wayne Daniel’s book should disabuse them of that. Atlanta was country music’s real birthplace, and has remained a vital and energetic center; Pickin ’ on Peachtree presents a wealth of new information and research, and establishes the importance of Atlanta in the rise of one of America’s most unique art forms.” -- Charles Wolfe, author of Tennessee Strings and Kentucky Country “In this thoroughly researched history of country music in Atlanta, Wayne Daniel explores the major artists, promoters, and industry executives who gave Atlanta’s country music its luster. . . . No one interested in country music, whether in fiddle conventions of the 1910s, the ‘golden age’ of recordings of the 1920s, the early radio barn dance broadcasts of the 1930s and ’40s, or country music on television in the ’50s and beyond will fail to find something of interest in Pickin ’ on Peachtree. -- Norm Cohen, author of Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong Wayne w. Daniel is the author of more than 75 articles in Bluegrass Unlimited, Journal of Country Music, Devil’s Box, and other publications.

Copyright:

1990

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

307 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780252016875

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press

Date of Addition:

04/02/19

Copyrighted By:

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Music

Submitted By:

Richard James

Proofread By:

ApprovalQueue Volunteer 6

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.