Barry Mazor

Barry Mazor
Mazor in 2025
BornPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
Occupation
  • Music critic
  • author
  • journalist
Period1970—present

Barry Mazor is the author of "Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story." His book Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music was winner of Belmont University's Best Book on Country Music award in 2016, and his "Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century" won the same award in 2010. He has written regularly for the Wall Street Journal since 2003, and he is a former senior editor and columnist for No Depression magazine. He was the host of the streaming radio show "Roots Now," on Nashville's AcmeRadioLive.