One hundred thirty-four years ago today, the man who spread country music to the world and forever changed the music business ...

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 ...

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, ...

Performers often get all the credit when it comes to shaping musical history. But without the engineers and businesspeople making things happen behind the scenes, there would be no mainstream musical ...

Around Bristol, when you hear the name Ralph Peer, you begin to recall the man who came to town in 1927 with dreams of mining gold. That gold was in the form of records. A New York City talent scout, ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Today, June 19th, Ralph Peer, II, Chairman and CEO of peermusic, will ...

The mythology of the early music industry in this country is filled with enterprising A&R men — that stands for “artists & repertoire”– men who scoped out new talent all over the country, sign ...

Although the music mogul Ralph Peer (1892-1960) is long gone, his innovations continue to influence both industry insiders and an improbably broad segment of the general public. Peer pioneered the ...